By Leonard Klady Klady@moviecitynews.com
The Weekend Report
Hubble, Bubble, Dribble, Trouble
Jurrasic World: Fallen Kingdom led the Canada Day frame with an estimated $59.9 million. The session featured two new national releases on the pre-Indie Day altar. Sicario: Day of the Soldado slotted third with $18.5 million with the basketball comedy Uncle Drew right behind at $15.3 million.
In the niches the Hindi Sanju was off to a potent start of $2.5 million. Based on the life of the sometimes notorious life of Bollywood acting heavy Sanjay Dutt the film also broke box office records on home turf with a $15 million opening weekend. In Quebec La Chute de l’Empire American marked the conclusion of Denys Arcand’s trilogy with a solid $382,000 gross at 70 venues.
Exclusive newcomers included excellent starts for the intense father-daughter saga Leave No Trace of $209,000 from nine screens. Also the doc Three Identical Strangers bowed to an upbeat $161,000 at five locales.
Revenues for the frame generated roughly $175 million and slid back 38% from last weekend. It was a slight 2% rise from 2017 when debuts of Despicable Me 3 and Baby Driver led with respective starts of $72.4 million and $20.6 million.
Tracking suggested it would be a tight race between the Sicario sequel and the buffoonish Uncle Drew with the latter film given a slight edge. However, the dark drama of DEA agents on the Southern border launched a full court press leading up to its Friday launch that turned the tables. Some pundits had it opening as high as $20 million. Its opening audience was 59% male with 70% age 25-years and older.
Sicario 2 opened day-and-date in 42 international markets to an estimated $6.2 million. Top territories included Korea with $1.2 million and Australia and the UK each contributing close to $1 million.
Though it was certainly evincing a Rockeyesque streak _ albeit with more intentional laughs _ Uncle Drew appeared to be on its way to a $17 million or $18 million opening. Critics found it laughable but that didn’t matter to its core audience. It’s audience, apart from a more significant African American component, was not dissimilar to Sicario with 56% male viewers that were 58% aged 25-years and older.
Domestic box office passed the $6 billion benchmark on Wednesday and is currently pacing about 3.5% ahead of 2017.
| Weekend (estimates) June 29 – July 1, 2018) | |||||
| Title | Distributor | Gross (avg) | % chng | Thtrs | Cume |
| Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Uni | 59.9 (13,350) | -60% | 4485 | 264.7 |
| Incredibles 2 | BV | 44.9 (10,190) | -44% | 4410 | 439.1 |
| Sicario: Day of the Soldado | Sony | 18.5 (6,070) | NEW | 3055 | 18.5 |
| Uncle Drew | Lionsgate | 15.3 (5,590) | NEW | 2742 | 15.3 |
| Ocean’s 8 | WB | 8.0 (2,340) | -31% | 3426 | 114.7 |
| Tag | WB | 5.6 (1,770) | -32% | 3176 | 40.9 |
| Deadpool 2 | Fox | 3.4 (1,640) | -35% | 2094 | 310.2 |
| Sanju | Fox Intl | 2.5 (7,110) | NEW | 356 | 2.5 |
| Solo: A Star Wars Story | BV | 2.4 (1,430) | -47% | 1654 | 207.4 |
| Won’t You Be My Neighbor? | Focus | 2.3 (3,470) | 25% | 654 | 7.5 |
| Hereditary | A24/Elevation | 2.2 (1,520) | -40% | 1424 | 39.3 |
| Avengers: Infinity War | BV | 1.4 (1,590) | -45% | 890 | 672.5 |
| Superfly | Sony | 1.4 (1,190) | -60% | 1157 | 18.4 |
| Book Club | Par | .62 (1,220) | -35% | 505 | 65.1 |
| Rampage | WB | .58 (2,900) | -37% | 201 | 98.4 |
| Adrift | STX/VVS | .50 (990) | -36% | 508 | 30.1 |
| La Chute de l’empire American | Seville | .38 (5,460) | NEW | 70 | 0.38 |
| Hearts Beat Loud | Gunpowder & Sky | .37 (2,170) | 28% | 170 | 1.3 |
| RBG | Magnolia | .36 (2,170) | -15% | 167 | 11.5 |
| American Animals | Orchard | .35 (1,200) | -35% | 293 | 2.1 |
| Gotti | Vertical | .29 (870) | -64% | 331 | 3.9 |
| Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi | Weekend | .28 (1,980) | NEW | 143 | 0.39 |
| Leave No Trace | Bleecker Street | .21 (23,270) | NEW | 9 | 0.21 |
| Overboard | Lionsgate | .19 (900) | -65% | 193 | 50.2 |
| Breaking In | Uni | .19 (1,360) | -49% | 138 | 46.1 |
| A Quiet Place | Par | .18 (870) | 12% | 211 | 187.2 |
| Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) | $169.50 | ||||
| % Change (Last Year) | 2% | ||||
| % Change (Last Week) | -38% | ||||
| Also debuting/expanding | |||||
| Three Identical Strangers | Neon | .16 (32,260) | 5 | 0.16 | |
| First Reformed | A24 | .15 (1,290) | -31% | 118 | 3.1 |
| The Catch Was a Spy | IFC | .11 (2,180) | -3% | 51 | 0.29 |
| Animal World | Media Asia | 56,500 (1,710) | 33 | 0.06 | |
| The Seagull | Sony Classics | 50,400 (780) | -47% | 65 | 1.2 |
| Boundaries | Sony Classics | 48,200 (2,840) | 63% | 17 | 0.09 |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey (reissue) | WB | 31,400 (5,230) | -52% | 6 | 1.1 |
| The Cakemaker | Strand | 29,200 (7,300) | 4 | 0.03 | |
| The Leakers | Media Asia | 14,700 (1,130) | 13 | 0.01 | |
| Ideal Home | Brainstorm | 11,900 (740) | 16 | 0.01 | |
| Love, Cecil | Zeitgeist | 8,700 (8,700) | 1 | 0.01 | |
| Woman Walks Ahead | A24 | 5,800 (5,800) | 10 | 0.01 | |
| Custody | Kino | 4,900 (4,900) | 1 | 0.01 | |
| Dark River | FilmRise | 4,900 (2,450) | 2 | 0.01 | |
| Domestic Market Share (January 2 – June 28, 2018) | |||||
| Distributor (releases) | Box Office (millions) | Market Share | |||
| Buena Vista (8) | 2199.9 | 36.40% | |||
| Warner Bros. (19) | 690.7 | 11.40% | |||
| 20th Century Fox (9) | 683.6 | 11.30% | |||
| Universal (10) | 612.3 | 10.10% | |||
| Sony (12) | 411.3 | 6.80% | |||
| Paramount (7) | 341.9 | 5.70% | |||
| Lionsgate (10) | 159.4 | 2.60% | |||
| Fox Searchlight (4) | 139.6 | 2.30% | |||
| STX (6) | 137.2 | 2.30% | |||
| Roadside Attractions (5) | 99.1 | 1.60% | |||
| Focus (8) | 91.4 | 1.50% | |||
| A24 (7) | 55.3 | 0.90% | |||
| Entertainment (3) | 51.7 | 0.85% | |||
| MGM (2) | 37.1 | 0.60% | |||
| Global Road (4) | 31.1 | 0.50% | |||
| Other * (204) | 308.9 | 5.15% | |||
| 6050.5 | 100% | ||||
| * none greater than 0.45% | |||||
| Top Limited Releases (January 2 – June 28, 2018) | |||||
| Title | Distributor | Box Office | |||
| Padmaavat | Viva | 12,159,664 | |||
| RBG | Magnolia | 11,134,362 | |||
| The Death of Stalin | IFC/Elevation | 8,652,496 | |||
| Won’t You Be My Neighbor? | Focus | 5,197,082 | |||
| Bharat Ane Nenu | Great India | 3,662,967 | |||
| Gotti | Vertical | 3,648,287 | |||
| Rangasthalam | Creative | 3,632,267 | |||
| 2018 Oscar Nominated Shorts | Magnolia | 3,508,777 | |||
| Disobedience | Bleecker Street | 3,435,918 | |||
| The Leisure Seeker | Sony Classics/eOne | 3,220,083 | |||
| Raazi | Zee Studios | 3,013,293 | |||
| First Reformed | A24 | 2,973,161 | |||
| Veere di Wedding | Zee Studios | 2,883,298 | |||
| La Boda de Valentina | Lionsgate | 2,816,208 | |||
| Race 3 | Yash Raj | 2,731,251 | |||
| Mahanati | Nirvana | 2,710,081 | |||
| Agnyaathavaasi – Prince in Exile | Blue Sky | 2,586,699 | |||
| You Were Never Really Here | Amazon/Elevation | 2,527,300 | |||
| Pandas | Imax/WB | 2,500,824 | |||
| Mary and the Witch’s Flower | Gkids | 2,418,404 | |||
| * does not include 2017 box office | |||||
