Monday, November 12, 2018

The Grinch opens to $66 million


For the weekend of November 9-11, 2018, The Grinch easily won the week. Illumination has had success with taking on Dr. Seuss (like Horton Hears a Who and The Lorax), so can an animated Cat in the Hat movie be on its way?

The other two wide releases - Overlord and The Girl in the Spider's Web - look like they'll be quickly forgotten.

Meanwhile, Bohemian Rhapsody had a mere -39.6% drop-off in its second week, which is good because the big guns of Thanksgiving releases are on their way.

In limited release, The Front Runner did okay. It stars Hugh Jackman as Gary Hart, the Colorado senator once considered the favorite to get the Democratic nomination for president in 1988 until rumors of extramarital affairs brought him down.

Meanwhile add Beautiful Boy and Can You Ever Forgive Me? to the long list of prestige limited release movies to come out this fall that haven't caught on when they open to more screens. (See also Suspiria, Wildlife, A Private War, Colette.)



Opens November 16
FANTASTIC BEASTS 2 with Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston and Johnny Depp.
WIDOWS with Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert Duvall and Daniel Kaluuya.
INSTANT FAMILY with Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne and Octavia Spencer.
GREEN BOOK with Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali and Linda Cardellini.

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