Weekend Wrap Up - a look at this week’s Industry Updates

August 8, 2022

This past weekend brought in $91.4M increasing the Q3 gross total to $1.27B.

 

Bullet Train rode into theaters this past weekend opening at $30.1MThe A18-34 audience showed up to theaters for Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train, making up 58% of its total opening weekend audience. The audience was also diverse, its total audience was 24% Hispanic/Latinx, 16% Asian and 14% Black. PostTrak exit interviews indicated that 34% went to see the film because they were enticed by the trailer and 20% said in-theater banners and posters influenced them to see the film.

 

In its second weekend in theaters, DC League of Super Pets dropped -51.3% grossing $11.2M. Its gross total now comes to $45.1M.

 

Nope is still bringing in a very diverse audience over the weekend with 65% identifying as BIPOC: 33% Black, 30% Hispanic/Latinx, and 12% Asian. Nope grossed $8.4M in its third weekend in theaters bringing its gross total to $97.9M.

 

Thor: Love and Thunder stands strong as the sixth highest grossing film of the year at $316M. This past weekend marked five weekends in theaters and added $7.6M to its total gross. Its gross is trending higher than all three of the previous Thor installments: +86% above Thor (2011), +63% above Thor: The Dark World (2013), and +8% above Thor: Ragnarok (2017).

 

Minions: The Rise of Gru rounds out the top five grossing films of the weekend with $7.1M in the box office. It is the fifth highest grossing film of the year at $334.5M. Like Thor: Love and Thunderit is also trending above many of its previous franchise filmsMinions is +50% above Despicable Me (2010), +~1% above Despicable Me 2, +6% above Minions (2015), and +38% above Despicable Me 3 (2017).

 

Top Gun: Maverick has now become the seventh highest grossing film of all time officially passing Titanic (1997) over the weekend. Though this weekend was its first weekend not in the top five grossing films, it still grossed $7M this weekend. Top Gun’s sights are now set on Avengers: Infinity War (2018) as it guns for the sixth-place spot on the all-time highest grossing films list.

 

Easter Sunday also opened this weekend and though it didn’t finish the top five grossing films, it still brought in a very diverse audience. Moviegoers were 37% Asian, 15% Hispanic/Latinx and 11% Black. The comedy is loosely about comedian Jo Koy’s life as he goes home to celebrate Easter with his family. Its opening frame totaled $5.2M.

 

Bodies Bodies Bodies opened in limited theaters this past weekend and will had a wide open this coming weekend. Its opening in six locations in NYC and LA had a $37,750 per-screen average, which was the second highest limited screen average this year.

 

Other new wide releases this coming weekend include Fall and Mack & Rita.

 

Fall is about climbers who decide to challenge themselves by attempting to conquer a 2,000-foot radio tower. Starring Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

 

Mack & Rita is a comedy about a 30-year-old writer vacations in Palm Springs with friends and wakes up as the 70-year-old version of herself. Starring Elizabeth Lail and Diane Keaton.

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