For the weekend of March 23-25, 2018, Pacific Rim: Uprising pulled off what movies the past five weeks have not been able to do: keep Black Panther out of the #1 spot. Even without the original's director (Guillermo Del Toro) and stars (Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam), the monsters vs. robots sequel blasted into the #1 spot. Now relative to its budget, that'd be the sign of a bomb, but this movie was greenit with the assumption 80% of its gross would come from overseas. It'll be huge in China.
Audiences weren't thrilled with the other new offerings. Sherlock Gnomes will make more money than Early Man, and Unsane was a low-budget indie disguised as a wide release, but Midnight Sun bombed, and Paul Apostle of Christ couldn't keep enough of the faith-based audience away from week 2 of I Can Only Imagine.
Tomb Raider's steep drop in week 2 showed that a new franchise is not born.
Peter Rabbit passed the $100 million domestic mark. Who saw that coming?
Black Panther is now 5th on all-time domestic grosses list, and it's on pace that it should be able to jump Titanic to 3rd by the time it's done. (Panther is currently 12th all-time for worldwide grosses.)
Opens March 30
READY PLAYER ONE with Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn and Mark Rylance.
TYLER PERRY'S ACRIMONY with Taraji P. Henson, Jazmyn Simon and Lyriq Bent.
GOD'S NOT DEAD 3 with John Corbett, Ted McGinley, Tatum O'Neal and David AR White.
FINDING YOUR FEET with Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall and Celia Imrie.
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