Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Dracula climbs atop Skyscraper
LOS ANGELES — Dwayne Johnson’s burly action hero was no match for a computer-animated Count Dracula at the box office last weekend. Columbia’s Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation debuted in first place with $45.3 million, according to figures from measurement firm ComScore.
In second place, Disney’s Ant-Man
and the Wasp, now in its second weekend, added about $29 million in ticket sales (a 62 percent drop), for a cumulative $133 million.
Legendary Entertainment and Universal’s Skyscraper opened in third place, with about $25 million. The Dwayne Johnson-led action movie cost an estimated $125 million to make.
Disney’s Incredibles 2 came in at No. 4, adding about $16.3 million in its fifth weekend, for about $536 million cumulatively.
Rounding out the top five, Universal’s
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom added about $16.2 million in its fourth week, for a cumulative of about $364 million.
In limited release, Annapurna Pictures’ Sorry to Bother You, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, added 789 locations (for a total of 805) and earned $4.2 million in its second weekend, for a cumulative of about $5.3 million.
The acclaimed indie satire, directed by musician Boots Riley, is about a black telemarketer whose nondescript voice allows him to advance quickly in the oppressive company he works for. Last week, the movie opened in 16 theaters and grossed a promising $727,000. Another Sundance premiere title,
Eighth Grade, also scored top marks, and the highest per theater average of the year, with $252,284 from four theaters. The well-reviewed film will expand nationwide in the coming weeks.
And documentaries continue to perform well too, including the Fred Rogers doc Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, which added $1.9 million from 868 theaters.
Amazon Studios’ Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, which also premiered at Sundance, had a so-so debut of $83,120 (a per-screen average of $20,780), also from four theaters.
Two more of the year’s hot Sundance titles significantly their theater counts over the weekend to mixed results.
Neo’s breakout documentary, Three Identical Strangers, continues to impress, with $1.2 million from just 170 theaters; it outgrossed the weekend take of Bleecker Street’s critically acclaimed drama Leave No Trace, which expanded into 311 theaters and also brought in $1.2 million.
This week, Columbia premieres the thriller The Equalizer 2, BH Tilt drops the thriller Unfriended: Dark Web and Universal opens the musical Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. In limited release, Lionsgate debuts the comedy-drama Blindspotting.