By Leonard Klady Klady@moviecitynews.com
The Weekend Report
Avengers: Infinity War won its third weekend with an estimated $63.2 million. The back-to-school hijinx of Life of the Party was in second spot with $18.3 million followed by the ferocious matriarch of Breaking In with $16.5 million.
A flood of Indian films arrived for their holidays with top response for the Telugu Mahanati and the Hindi Raazi that bowed respectively to $1 million and $817,000. The Brazilian political drama Nothing to Lose (Nada a Perder) about a real-life political prisoner arrived with a potent $622,000 from 70 screens. It’s grossed more than $34 million since its release last month at home.
Exclusive starters included Brit dramatic thriller Beast with $52,500 at four sites and an adaptation of The Seagull with $77,900 at six venues.
Revenues for the frame pushed past $140 million and slid back 18% from the prior weekend. It was a slight 1% improvement from 2018 when the second weekend of Guardians of the Galaxy 2 led with $65.3 million and newcomers Snatched and King Arthur followed with $19.5 million and 15.4 million.
New releases brought a distaff crowd with Life of the Party providing the more lighthearted perspective with a divorced mom deciding to go back to college. Tracking had suggested a debut in the $18 million to $20 million range. Exit polling identified the crowd as 70% female with 80% aged 25-years and older.
The story of a mother protecting her children against bad guys feels like an evolving subgenre and Breaking In was expected to open a modicum better than Sunday estimates. It’s a female tilt was 65% but it played younger with 53% of the audience 30 and older. It’s worth noting that most studios employ one company to do exit surveys and it targets 19 U.S. cities, 20 locations and 1,000 respondents. There’s a strong likelihood that results will sometimes be outside what is considered an acceptable margin of error.
Following up on last weekend debut of Overboard (which held well domestically), the film had a potent debut in Mexico of roughly $10 million. It was a record start for its star Eugenio Derbez and the year’s second strongest debut (behind Infinity War).
| Weekend (estimates) May 11 – 13, 2018 | |||||
| Title | Distributor | Gross (average) | % chng | Thrs | Cume |
| Avengers: Infinity War | BV | 63.2 (14,130) | -45% | 4474 | 549 |
| Life of the Party | WB | 18.3 (5,020) | NEW | 3656 | 18.3 |
| Breaking In | Uni | 16.5 (6,490) | NEW | 2537 | 16.5 |
| Overboard | Lionsgate | 10.1 (5,020) | -31% | 2006 | 29.6 |
| A Quiet Place | Par | 6.3 (1,310) | -18% | 3144 | 170 |
| I Feel Pretty | STX/eOne | 3.6 (1,270) | -28% | 2858 | 43.8 |
| Rampage | WB | 3.4 (1,320) | -28% | 2548 | 89.7 |
| Tully | Focus | 2.2 (1,630) | -33% | 1356 | 7 |
| Black Panther | BV | 1.9 (1,400) | -41% | 1370 | 696 |
| Blockers | Uni | 1.1 (1,010) | -35% | 1111 | 58.1 |
| RBG | Magnolia | 1.1 (6,060) | 89% | 180 | 1.9 |
| Super Troopers 2 | Fox Searchlight | 1.1 (780) | -43% | 1379 | 27.5 |
| Isle of Dogs | Fox Searchlight | 1.0 (980) | 26% | 1046 | 29.9 |
| Mahanati | Nirvana | 1.0 (6,180) | NEW | 165 | 1.7 |
| Ready Player One | WB | .92 (1,150) | -30% | 804 | 135 |
| Truth or Dare | Uni | .89 (700) | -52% | 1269 | 39.7 |
| A Wrinkle in Time | BV | .84 (420) | 104% | 1984 | 96.5 |
| Raazi | Zee Studios | .82 (6,280) | NEW | 130 | 0.82 |
| Nothing to Lose (Nada a Perder) | Swen | .62 (8,880) | NEW | 70 | 0.62 |
| Bad Samaritan | Electric | .51 (330) | -71% | 1546 | 3 |
| Disobedience | Bleecker Street | .44 (4,410) | 44% | 100 | 1.2 |
| Sherlock Gnomes | Par | .39 (650) | -1% | 608 | 41.7 |
| I Can Only Imagine | Roadside/Lionsgate | .33 (760) | -24% | 429 | 82.4 |
| 102 Not Out | Sony | .26 (2,560) | -46% | 102 | 0.95 |
| Chappaquiddick | Entertainment/D Films | .24 (750) | -33% | 317 | 17 |
| The Rider | Sony Classics | .22 (2,560) | 64% | 85 | 0.85 |
| Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) | $135.40 | ||||
| % Change (Last Year) | 1% | ||||
| % Change (Last Week) | -18% | ||||
| Also debuting/expanding | |||||
| The Death of Stalin | IFC/Elevation | .12 (860) | -32% | 139 | 8.3 |
| Let the Sunshine In | IFC | .10 (3,060) | 62% | 34 | 0.25 |
| Irumbu Thirai | Lyca | 94,200 (2,140) | 44 | 0.09 | |
| You Were Never Really Here | Amazon | 91,600 (900) | -46% | 102 | 2.4 |
| Indian Horse | Elevation | 81,300 (1,060) | 1% | 77 | 1.3 |
| The Seagull | Sony Classics | 77,900 (12,980) | 6 | 0.08 | |
| La Ch’tite famille | A-Z Films | 73,800 (1,610) | -27% | 46 | 0.22 |
| Lu Over the Wall | Gkids | 64,100 (660) | 97 | 0.06 | |
| Beast | Roadside Attractions | 52,500 (13,120) | 4 | 0.05 | |
| Revenge | Neon | 44,300 (1,230) | 36 | 0.04 | |
| The Leisure Seeker | Sony Classics/eOne | 35,700 (530) | -26% | 67 | 3.1 |
| Mehabooba | Blue Sky | 33,400 (330) | 101 | 0.03 | |
| Measure of a Man | Great Point | 26,200 ((790) | 33 | 0.03 | |
| Boom for Real | Magnolia | 15,500 (15,500) | 1 | 0.02 | |
| Champion | Well Go | 14,600 (7,300) | 2 | 0.01 | |
| I Am Your Mom | Media Asia | 12,100 (1,210) | 10 | 0.01 | |
| Always at the Carlyle | Good Deed | 8,900 (8,900) | 1 | 0.01 | |
| Filmworker | Kino | 8,300 (8,300) | 1 | 0.01 | |
| Knock | TVA | 7,500 (1,070) | 7 | 0.01 | |
| Domestic Market Share (January 2 – May 10, 2018) | |||||
| Distributor (releases) | Box Office (millions) | Market Share | |||
| Buena Vista (6) | 1405.5 | 33.90% | |||
| Warner Bros. (15) | 478.6 | 11.60% | |||
| Sony (10) | 391.1 | 9.40% | |||
| 20th Century Fox (8) | 375.9 | 9.10% | |||
| Universal (8) | 355.9 | 8.60% | |||
| Paramount (5) | 245.3 | 5.90% | |||
| Fox Searchlight (4) | 132.4 | 3.20% | |||
| Lionsgate (9) | 126.6 | 3.10% | |||
| STX (5) | 102.6 | 2.50% | |||
| Roadside Attractions (4) | 96.9 | 2.30% | |||
| Focus (5) | 68.3 | 1.60% | |||
| Entertainment (3) | 51.1 | 1.20% | |||
| MGM (2) | 37.1 | 0.90% | |||
| Neon (3) | 25.7 | 0.60% | |||
| CBS (1) | 23.5 | 0.55% | |||
| Aviron (1) | 22.9 | 0.55% | |||
| Other * (163) | 205.6 | 5.00% | |||
| 4145 | 100% | ||||
| * none greater than 0.5% | |||||
| Top Global Grossers (January 2 – May 10, 2018) | |||||
| Title | Distributor | Box Office | |||
| Black Panther | BV | 1,340,597,896 | |||
| Avenger Infinity War | BV | 1,260,615,386 | |||
| Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle * | Sony | 616,499,670 | |||
| Operation Red Sea | Bona; Well Go | 584,005,699 | |||
| Ready Player One | WB | 567,538,436 | |||
| Detective Chinatown 2 | Wanda; WB | 542,745,147 | |||
| Rampage | WB | 383,752,023 | |||
| Fifty Shades Freed | Uni | 370,585,347 | |||
| Monster Hunt 2 | Edko; Lionsgate | 361,925,606 | |||
| The Greatest Showman * | Fox | 341,810,919 | |||
| Peter Rabbit | Sony | 328,358,269 | |||
| Pacific Rim Uprising | Uni; Legendary | 289,906,307 | |||
| Star Wars: The Last Jedi * | BV | 278,351,455 | |||
| Maze Runner: The Death Cure | Fox | 285,881,603 | |||
| Tomb Raider | WB | 271,892,835 | |||
| Coco | BV | 271,528,360 | |||
| Ex- File 3 * | Huayi; China Lions | 261,718,877 | |||
| A Quiet Place | Par | 259,722,358 | |||
| Us and Them | Huaxia | 191,026,800 | |||
| The Shape of Water * | Fox | 177,809,110 | |||
| The Post * | Fox | 175,971,607 | |||
| Insidious: The Last Key | Uni; Sony | 167,419,287 | |||
| Ferdinand * | Fox | 166,184,357 | |||
| Red Sparrow | Fox | 147,539,834 | |||
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Fox | 134,164,217 | |||
| * does not include 2017 box office | |||||
