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Weekend Box Office Report
August 11 - August 13, 2017




By Daniel Garris

Weekend Actuals Update:

With actuals now in, Warner’s Annabelle: Creation debuted with $35.006 M, which was right in line with Sunday’s studio estimate.

Other weekend actuals for the frame include: Dunkirk ($10.884 M), The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature ($8.342 M), The Dark Tower ($7.820 M), Girls Trip ($6.466 M), The Emoji Movie ($6.451 M), Spider-Man: Homecoming ($6.023 M), Kidnap ($5.097 M), The Glass Castle ($4.679 M) and Atomic Blonde ($4.481 M).

Weekend Estimates Update:

Warner’s Annabelle: Creation was off to a strong first place start this weekend with an estimated $35.04 M. The low-budget horror sequel exceeded expectations and performed quite well with its price tag in mind. Annabelle: Creation was likely aided by the current marketplace in general being slow for mid-August and by solid critical reviews. The film currently has a score of 7.228 on our LoveHate Rate aggregate measurement of critical and online ratings. Annabelle: Creation did open a slim 5.6 percent below the $37.13 M debut of 2014’s Annabelle, though Annabelle: Creation hadn’t been expected to match the opening weekend heights of its predecessor. Annabelle Creation opened 11.2 percent ahead of the $31.52 M launch of last year’s The Purge: Election Year.

Annabelle: Creation started out with $15.0 M on Friday (which included an estimated $4.0 M from Thursday night shows that began at 7PM), decreased a sizable 22.4 percent on Saturday to take in $11.64 M and is estimated to decline 27.8 percent on Sunday to gross $8.40 M. Annabelle: Creation received a B rating on CinemaScore, which is very solid for a horror film. Going forward, Annabelle: Creation could be helped out by the overall marketplace looking to remain slow (even by late August and early September standards), until fellow Warner Bros. horror film IT arrives in theatres on September 8.

Internationally, Annabelle: Creation debuted with an estimated $35.0 M from 39 markets. That brings the film’s international total to $36.7 M and early global haul to $71.7 M. Key international debuts this weekend included $6.6 M in Korea, $3.9 M in Indonesia, $2.9 M in France, $2.6 M in the U.K. and $2.3 M in Russia.

Fellow Warner Bros. release Dunkirk placed in a distant second with an estimated $11.41 M. Dunkirk continued to hold up very well this weekend, as the film declined 33.4 percent from last weekend. Dunkirk has grossed a healthy $153.71 M in 24 days, which already gives the film a current total gross to opening weekend ratio of 3.04 to 1. Dunkirk is running 4.5 percent ahead of the $147.04 M grossed by 2014’s Interstellar after 24 days of wide release.

Internationally, Dunkirk grossed an estimated $14.5 M this weekend from 62 markets. The film has grossed $210.0 M to date internationally and $363.6 M so far globally. Dunkirk grossed an estimated $3.5 M in the U.K. this weekend, where it has grossed $58.5 M in 24 days.

Open Road’s The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature debuted in third place with an estimated $8.93 M. The Nut Job 2 opened below its relatively modest expectations, which had tended to range from $10 M to $15 M heading into the weekend. The Nut Job 2 debuted 54.0 percent below the $19.423 M launch of 2014’s The Nut Job, as there ultimately just wasn’t much demand for a Nut Job sequel. The Nut Job 2 easily delivered the smallest debut ever for a film opening in at least 4,000 locations; a record that had recently been set by The Emoji Movie with its $24.53 M start. Poor critical reviews didn’t help matters for The Nut Job 2 this weekend. The film currently has a rating of just 3.838 on our LoveHate Rate aggregate measurement. However, The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature appears to be going over better with its target audience, as it received a B+ rating on CinemScore.

Sony’s The Dark Tower was down three spots and a sharp 58.9 percent from last weekend to place in fourth with an estimated $7.88 M. The Dark Tower has grossed $34.31 M in ten days, which is on the low end of the film’s scaled back expectations. Poor critical reviews and mixed word of mouth are clearly continuing to take a toll on the film. The Dark Tower is running an underwhelming 44.2 percent behind the $61.53 M ten-day take of last year’s The Magnificent Seven (which fell 55.0 percent in its second weekend to gross $15.63 M).

Fellow Sony release The Emoji Movie rounded out the weekend’s top five with an estimated $6.60 M. The Emoji Movie declined a respectable 45.0 percent from last weekend and likely received a small boost this weekend from the softer than expected start of The Nut Job 2. The Emoji Movie has grossed a solid $63.59 M in 17 days, as the film continues to perform in line with expectations and remain largely critic proof. The Emoji Movie is running 10.3 percent ahead of the $57.65 M 17-day haul of 2015’s Pixels.

Universal’s Girls Trip claimed sixth place with an estimated $6.52 M. Girls Trip was down a solid 42.8 percent from last weekend. Girls Trip has grossed a stronger than expected $97.19 M in 24 days. That already places the film’s current total gross to opening weekend ratio at 3.12 to 1 and leaves the film just $2.81 M away from reaching the $100 M domestic milestone. Girls Trip is running 13.4 percent ahead of the $85.68 M 24-day gross of last year’s Bad Moms.

Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming followed in seventh with an estimated $6.10 M. After initial front-loading, Spider-Man: Homecoming continues to stabilize nicely, as the film was down only 31.0 percent this weekend. Spider-Man: Homecoming passed the $300 M domestic mark on Thursday and has grossed a healthy $306.45 M in 38 Days. Spider-Man: Homecoming currently ranks in 63rd place on the all-time unadjusted domestic list.

Lionsgate’s The Glass Castle was off to a respectable start this weekend with an estimated ninth place take of $4.88 M. The Glass Castle was playing in a modest 1,461 locations this weekend, which gave the film a per-location average of $3,337 for the frame. The Glass Castle debuted 48.3 percent ahead of the $3.28 M start of The Zookeeper’s Wife earlier this year (though The Zookeeper’s Wife started out in just 541 locations) and 26.1 percent below the $6.60 M start of last year’s Florence Foster Jenkins (which debuted in 1,528 locations). Critical reviews for The Glass Castle have been mixed (the film has a current LoveHate Rate of 6.469), but the film looks to be going over better with audiences as it received an encouraging A- rating on CinemaScore.





Weekend Studio Estimates for August 11 - August 13, 2017.

Film (Distributor) Weekend
Gross
Theatre
Count
Per-Thea.
Average
%Change
Total
Gross
TG to OW
Ratio
Week
1 Annabelle: Creation
(Warner / New Line)
$35,040,000 3,502 $10,006 NEW $35,040,000 1.000 1
2 Dunkirk
(Warner Bros.)
$11,405,000 3,762 $3,032 -33.4% $153,713,000 3.043 4
3 The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature
(Open Road)
$8,935,000 4,003 $2,232 NEW $8,935,000 1.000 1
4 The Dark Tower
(Sony / Columbia)
$7,875,000 3,451 $2,282 -58.9% $34,306,000 1.791 2
5 The Emoji Movie
(Sony / Columbia)
$6,600,000 3,219 $2,050 -45.0% $63,587,000 2.592 3
6 Girls Trip
(Universal)
$6,521,000 2,303 $2,831 -42.8% $97,194,000 3.115 4
7 Spider-Man: Homecoming
(Sony / Columbia)
$6,100,000 2,607 $2,340 -31.0% $306,454,000 2.619 6
8 Kidnap
(Aviron Pictures)
$5,225,000 2,418 $2,161 -47.8% $19,394,000 1.936 2
9 The Glass Castle
(Lionsgate)
$4,875,000 1,461 $3,337 NEW $4,875,000 1.000 1
10 Atomic Blonde
(Focus)
$4,572,000 2,093 $2,185 -43.9% $42,820,000 2.342 3
11 War for the Planet of the Apes
(Fox)
$3,700,000 2,098 $1,764 -40.0% $137,328,000 2.441 5
12 Despicable Me 3
(Universal)
$3,061,000 2,013 $1,521 -43.6% $247,668,000 3.419 7
13 Detroit
(Annapurna Pictures)
$3,010,000 3,007 $1,001 -57.8% $13,421,000 1.884 3
14 The Big Sick
(Lionsgate / Amazon)
$1,525,000 709 $2,151 -29.5% $36,469,000 4.822 8
15 Baby Driver
(Sony / TriStar)
$1,475,000 865 $1,705 -42.7% $100,067,000 4.869 7
16 Wonder Woman
(Warner Bros.)
$1,473,000 961 $1,533 -35.6% $402,201,000 3.895 11

Valerian and the City of a
Thousand Planets
(STXfilms / EuropaCorp)
$890,000 785 $1,134 -62.8% $38,348,000 2.255 4
An Inconvenient Sequel:
Truth to Power
(Paramount)
$800,000 556 $1,439 -16.8% $2,296,000 2.388 3
Wind River
(Weinstein Company)
$642,000 45 $14,268 +297.4% $870,000 1.355 2
Wolf Warrior 2
(H Collective / Well Go USA)
$420,000 52 $8,077 -17.2% $1,933,000 3.814 3
Cars 3
(Disney)
$369,000 308 $1,198 -31.6% $148,363,000 2.763 9
A Taxi Driver
(Well Go USA)
$332,000 41 $8,098 NEW $332,000 1.000 1
Step
(Fox Searchlight)
$278,000 185 $1,503 +89.8% $478,000 1.721 2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
(Disney)
$262,000 210 $1,248 -42.3% $388,884,000 2.654 15
Once Upon A Time
(Well Go USA)
$257,000 51 $5,029 NEW $257,000 1.000 1
Transformers: The Last Knight
(Paramount)
$250,000 255 $980 -17.3% $129,801,000 2.905 8
Menashe
(A24)
$198,000 47 $4,212 +156.2% $422,000 2.130 3
Maudie
(Sony Pictures Classics / Mongrel)
$173,000 163 $1,059 -32.0% $5,424,000 13.870 18
Ingrid Goes West
(NEON)
$141,000 3 $47,072 NEW $141,000 1.000 1
47 Meters Down
(Entertainment Studios
Motion Pictures)
$140,000 173 $809 -51.6% $43,357,000 3.869 9
Good Time
(A24)
$138,000 4 $34,406 NEW $138,000 1.000 1
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Men Tell No Tales
(Disney)
$116,000 125 $928 -35.9% $171,569,000 2.724 12
Lady Macbeth
(Roadside)
$91,585 119 $770 -45.2% $933,000 5.301 5
The Little Hours
(Gunpowder & Sky)
$61,165 60 $1,019 -10.4% $1,443,000 4.530 7
The Only Living Boy in New York
(Roadside / Amazon)
$57,619 15 $3,841 NEW $57,619 1.000 1
The Mummy
(Universal)
$57,080 102 $560 -59.1% $80,070,000 2.527 10
Brigsby Bear
(Sony Pictures Classics)
$55,621 37 $1,503 +42.8% $172,677 3.105 3
A Ghost Story
(A24)
$49,415 57 $867 -65.8% $1,464,000 3.831 6
The Midwife
(Music Box Films)
$48,500 40 $1,213 -41.9% $334,000 4.034 4
Megan Leavey
(Bleecker Street)
$40,436 75 $539 -44.7% $13,042,000 3.422 10
Lost in Paris
(Oscilloscope)
$33,000 23 $1,435 -34.6% $472,000 5.875 9
Beatriz At Dinner
(Roadside)
$25,500 40 $638 -40.9% $6,986,000 3.844 10
We Love You, Sally Carmichael!
(Purdie Distribution)
$12,924 11 $1,175 -58.2% $58,565 1.892 2
Love, Kennedy
(Purdie Distribution)
$5,748 12 $479 -25.0% $365,000 8.053 11
Manifesto
(FilmRise)
$1,100 1 $1,100 N/A $160,000 11.847 14

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