By Leonard Klady Klady@moviecitynews.com
The Weekend Report
The debut of Logan cut a mean figure estimated at $85.5 million to easily lead weekend movie going. Other national releases saw good returns of $16.2 million for the faith-based The Shack and a crash landing of $4.7 million for the brooding drama Before I Fall.
Also disappointing in limited wide release was the relationship comedy Table 19 with $1.6 million. New imports from India flatlined and the best of the exclusives was the drama-comedy The Last Word with a $33,900 tally from four screens. In Canada, the animated Ballerina expanded into English-language venues to solid returns of $718,000.
Oscar’s aftermath saw only best picture and foreign-language winners Moonlight and The Salesman gaining dramatic upticks.
Revenues for the session pushed to about $185 million and a significant 52% balloon from last weekend. It was also 14% improved from 2016 when debuts of Zootopia and London Has Fallen led with respective opening of $75.1 million and $21.6 million.
Logan, the (reportedly) closing chapter of X-Men’s Wolverine saga, was anticipated to open big on the order of slightly better than $70 million. Trackers damped down expectations because of the film’s hard R-rating. Studio exit demos identified the throng as 63% male and 68% aged 25-years and older. Large format engagements accounted for about 23% of overall engagements and 27% of box office.
The film opened concurrently in 81 international markets to an estimated $152 million to rank as the studio’s third-largest foreign debut. China was in the forefront with $46 million, followed by the UK at $11 million and South Korea grossing $8.2 million.
The Shack had a standard opening in the $12-$13 million range. But the zeitgeist of national division led to a larger response for hope on the big screen. Its audience was 66% female and 72% aged 35 and beyond.
Despite its YA cred, the Groundhog Day dynamic of Before I Fell wasn’t expected to gross more than $5 million and that proved prescient. Exit demos were not available at press deadline but its target crowd was likely youthful and female.
| Weekend (estimates) March 3 – 5, 2017 | |||||
| Title | Distributor | Gross (avg) | % chng | Thtrs | Cume |
| Logan | Fox | 85.5 (21,010) | NEW | 4071 | 85.5 |
| Get Out | Uni | 26.1 ((8,880) | -22% | 2938 | 75.9 |
| The Shack | Lionsgate | 16.2 (5,620) | NEW | 2888 | 16.2 |
| The Lego Batman Movie | WB | 11.6 (3,180) | -39% | 3656 | 148.6 |
| John Wick: Chapter 2 | Lionsgate | 4.7 (1,910) | -49% | 2475 | 82.9 |
| Before I Fall | Open Road | 4.7 (1,990) | NEW | 2346 | 4.7 |
| Hidden Figures | Fox | 3.8 (2,430) | -34% | 1582 | 158.8 |
| The Great Wall | Uni | 3.5 (1,510) | -62% | 2314 | 41.3 |
| Fifty Shades Darker | Uni | 3.5 (1,570) | -55% | 2205 | 109.9 |
| La La Land | Lionsgate | 3.0 (2,130) | -36% | 1411 | 145.7 |
| Fist Fight | WB | 2.9 (1,240) | -56% | 2303 | 28.3 |
| Moonlight | A24/Elevation | 2.4 (1,520) | 303% | 1564 | 25.2 |
| Rock Dog | Lionsgate | 2.2 (1,050) | -39% | 2077 | 6.6 |
| Split | Uni | 2.1 (1,860) | -49% | 1126 | 134 |
| Lion | Weinstein Co. | 2.1 (1,690) | -44% | 1260 | 46.5 |
| A Dog’s Purpose | Uni | 1.7 (1,130) | -53% | 1494 | 60.2 |
| Table 19 | Fox Searchlight | 1.6 (1,880) | NEW | 868 | 1.6 |
| Ballerina | Seville | .72 (2,980) | 298% | 241 | 1.2 |
| Moana | BV | .65 (2,020) | -22% | 321 | 246.9 |
| A Uniied Kingdom | Fox Searchlight | .63 (2,320) | 24% | 271 | 1.8 |
| I Am Not Your Negro | Magnolia | .43 (1,900) | -48% | 227 | 5.5 |
| Sing | Uni | .38 (1,350) | -22% | 283 | 268.2 |
| Fences | Par | .29 (1,030) | -62% | 284 | 57.1 |
| The Salesman | Cohen/Elevation | .25 (2,200) | 56% | 115 | 1.8 |
| Manchester By the Sea | Roadside | .25 (640) | -47% | 387 | 47.3 |
| Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) | $179.60 | ||||
| % Change (Last Year) | 14% | ||||
| % Change (Last Week) | 52% | ||||
| Also debuting/expanding | |||||
| Kedi | Oscilloscope | .21 (4,140) | 93% | 51 | 0.55 |
| My Ex and Whys | ABS | .11 (2,670) | -58% | 42 | 1.3 |
| Tim Timmerman: Hope of America | Purdie | 72,200 (6,020) | 12 | 0.07 | |
| Toni Erdmann | Sony Classics | 61,600 (980) | -50% | 63 | 1.3 |
| Paterson | Bleecker Street | 54,800 (1,250) | -33% | 44 | 1.8 |
| Dwaraka | Yukta | 52,100 (1,110) | 47 | 0.05 | |
| Commando 2 | Big Pictures | 49,300 (970) | 51 | 0.05 | |
| Jackie | Fox Searchlight | 49,100 (7,010) | -55% | 70 | 13.8 |
| Kittu Unnadu Jagratha | US Telugu | 48,300 (860) | 56 | 0.05 | |
| The Red Turtle | Sony Classics/A-Z | 46,700 (730) | -60% | 64 | 0.69 |
| My Life as a Zuchini | Gkids | 42,700 (1,470) | 47% | 29 | 0.08 |
| L’Odyssee | Entract | 34,500 (2,300) | 15 | 0.03 | |
| The Last Word | Bleecker Street | 33,900 (8,480) | 4 | 0.03 | |
| The Women’s Balcony | Menemsha | 15,500 (7,750) | 2 | 0.02 | |
| Loot 2 | Princess | 12,200 (4,070) | 3 | 0.01 | |
| Papa ou Maman 2 | A-Z Films | 8,100 (670) | 12 | 0.01 | |
| Donald Cried | Orchard | 7,600 (3,800) | 2 | 0.01 | |
| The Last Laugh | Tangerine | 6,600 (6,600) | 1 | 0.01 | |
| The Freedom to Marry | Argot | 6,200 (6,200) | 1 | 0.01 | |
| Catfight | Dark Sky | 6,100 (610) | 10 | 0.01 | |
| Ugetsu (reissue) | Janus | 5,800 (5,800) | 1 | 0.01 | |
| Domestic Market Share (January 2 – March 2, 2017) | |||||
| Distributor (releases) | Box Office | Market Share | |||
| Universal (8) | 486.2 | 28.40% | |||
| 20th Century Fox (9) | 208.1 | 12.20% | |||
| Lionsgate (8) | 197.3 | 11.50% | |||
| Warner Bros. (8) | 188.6 | 11.00% | |||
| Paramount (9) | 151.6 | 8.90% | |||
| Buena Vista (3) | 143.7 | 8.40% | |||
| Sony (5) | 95.8 | 5.60% | |||
| Weinstein Co. (3) | 55.4 | 3.20% | |||
| CBS (1) | 31.2 | 1.80% | |||
| STX (3) | 28.9 | 1.70% | |||
| Open Road (2) | 22.7 | 1.30% | |||
| Roadside Attractions (1) | 16.7 | 1.00% | |||
| A24 (2) | 14.3 | 0.80% | |||
| Fox Searchlight (2) | 7.9 | 0.45% | |||
| Magnolia (3) | 7.8 | 0.45% | |||
| Other * (61) | 55.8 | 3.30% | |||
| 1712 | 100% | ||||
| * none greater than 0.4% | |||||
| Top Global Grossers (January 2 – March 2, 2017) | |||||
| Title | Distributor | Box Office | |||
| Fifty Shades Darker | Uni | 342,534,792 | |||
| xXx: Return of Xander Cage | Par | 330,940,976 | |||
| La La Land * | Lionsgate | 321,333,754 | |||
| Sing * | Uni | 290,934,689 | |||
| Resident Evil: The Final Chapter | Sony | 273,836,146 | |||
| Kung Fu Yoga | Well Go; Golden Network | 271,843,735 | |||
| Rogue One * | BV | 267,484,969 | |||
| Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back | Alibaba; Sony | 251,036,946 | |||
| The Lego Batman Movie | WB | 234,089,936 | |||
| Split | Uni | 229,392,757 | |||
| Hidden Figures * | Fox | 184,634,151 | |||
| Passengers * | Sony | 179,093,642 | |||
| Moana * | BV | 175,797,256 | |||
| The Great Wall * | Uni; China Film | 147,241,760 | |||
| Duckweed | China Lion; Bona | 146,954,841 | |||
| Assassin’s Creed * | Fox | 146,285,609 | |||
| John Wick: Chapter 2 | Lionsgate | 133,468,018 | |||
| Buddies in India | China Lion; Enlight | 110,911,691 | |||
| * does not include 2016 box office | |||||
