Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Box: You got a Linda Hamilton thing going.

1. Terminator: Dark Days - $36m / $36m / $100m
2. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil - $10.5m / $82.5m / $108m
**Joker - $10.5 / $295.5m / $320m
4. Harriet - $8m / $8m / $25m
5. The Addams Family - $7m / $83m / $100m
6. Arctic Dogs - $6.5m / $6.5m / $20m
**Zombieland: Double Tap - $6.5m / $58m / $75m
8. Motherless Brooklyn - $5m / $5m / $14m
9. Black and Blue - $4.5m / $16m / $25m
10. Countdown - $4m / $15.5m / $23m

The third reboot of Terminator opens. Reviews are okay/decent, which is a win unto itself. Numbers from overseas have been weak, though. The other three openers probably won't break out of single digits. A Harriet Tubman movie should have been an easy win, but reviews are not where they need to be and then there's the controversy over Erivo's casting. Arctic Dogs will be long forgotten by the time Frozen 2 opens later in the month. Motherless Brooklyn could very well be another Goldfinch. Not a strong start to the end of the year box-office season, but the numbers in limited for Parasite and Jojo Rabbit continue to impress. The Lighthouse even made the top 10 last weekend! It's nice that the specialty box-office has finally recovered after a long stretch of lackluster numbers. 

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