Hello everyone,
BOX OFFICE: As expected, the summer box office ended with a whimper. “Deadpool & Wolverine” was #1 with juts $15.4 million (3-day) and $19.5 million (4-day), “Alien Romulus” was 2nd with $9.2 million (3-day) and $11.6 million (4-day). The biggest opening was the biopic “Reagan” which was #4 with $7.6 million (3-day) but rose up to #3 with $10.3 million (4-day).
The total domestic box office was $81 million for 3-day and $105 million for 4-day. The 3-day was down about 8.5% from the previous weekend and both the 3-day and 4-day were lower than the same weekend last year (3-day was $89 million and 4 day was $111 million).
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: Worldwide box office was also pretty slow. The only notable things are that “Inside Out 2” moved up from #10 to #9 of the biggest movies ever worldwide and “Despicable Me 4” just passed $900 at the total worldwide box office.
SUMMER RECAP:
For the domestic box office, “Inside Out 2” managed to hold on to the #1 spot of the summer but “Deadpool and Wolverine” is catching up (just $47 million below it). The unofficial summer (May-Aug) results are….
- Inside Out 2 – $650 million.
- Deadpool and Wolverine – $604 million
- Despicable Me 4 – $355.5 million
- Twisters – $260 million
- Bad Boys Ride or Die – $193 million
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – $171 million
- A Quiet Place Day One – $139 million
- It Ends With Us – $135.6 million
- IF – $111 million
- The Fall Guy – $93 million
Although sequels/remakes/spinoffs took the top 5 of the summer, #8-10 aren’t. There’s even a movie NOT based on something else (book/TV show/etc) – at #9
The worldwide box office is somewhat different. “Twisters” didn’t do so well internationally, and the bottom of the list has different titles.
- Inside Out 2 – $1.668 billion
- Deadpool and Wolverine – $1.264 billion
- Despicable Me 2 – $915 million
- Bad Boys Ride or Die – $402 million
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – $397 million
- Twisters – $361 million
- Alien Romulus – $288 million
- It Ends With Us – $285 million
- A Quiet Place Day One – $261 million
- The Garfield Movie – $230 million
For international movies, there’s only one movie that’s not a sequel/remake/spinoff movie at #8.
OTHER NEWS:
It looks like there’s a possibility that the Trump biographical movie “The Apprentice” will be released in movie theaters in the US BEFORE the election. The unofficial release date is supposedly October 11. Although no major studio was willing to release it (even smaller distribution companies like “A24” weren’t willing), it got a domestic distribution with Briarcliff and it’s currently doing a Kickstarter campaign to get the movie playing in even more movie theaters. The Trump campaign has threatened “…us directly after our screening, not only threaten us, but threaten any distributor who dared to try to release the movie” but no lawsuit has been filed yet.
LITTLE BIT OF HUMOR:
With the current Venice Film Festival, the stopwatches are out again to see how long the ovations are at the end of each movie. However, 11 MINUTES???? I know they’re showing their support for a movie but after a while it just gets ridiculous. My hands would start to get tired. Enough is enough.
LOS ANGELES FILM REVIEW 