In the calm before the Infinity War storm, Paramount’s A Quiet Place returned to the number one spot at the North America box office. Saturday matinee crowds kept Warner’s Rampage afloat in second place while I Feel Pretty and Super Troopers 2 each generated moderate numbers in their debuts. Overall, business was up a healthy 13% percent compared to the top ten from one year ago. That number will undoubtedly skyrocket next weekend when Avengers: Infinity War arrives.
In its third weekend on 3,808 screens, A Quiet Place earned an estimated $22 million. Down only 30%, the new domestic total for the acclaimed John Krasinski hit stands at $132.3 million. By the end of next weekend, A Quiet Place should become Paramount’s biggest box office hit since 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Should the film continue to display box office stamina similar to last year’s horror sensation Get Out, A Quiet Place should finish its North American run with a great $180 million. The international total for Quiet Place is currently at $75 million.
Thanks to a whopping 82% spike in business on Saturday -mostly coming from matinee crowds-, Warner/New Line’s Rampage had a decent hold in its second weekend on 4,115 screens. The Dwayne Johnson headliner scored an estimated $21 million this weekend, down only 41% from its debut one week ago. After ten days, Rampage has scored $66.6 million. A domestic finale near the $100 million mark is possible. Foreign markets have been more receptive to Rampage. To date, the monster flickhas cooked up a sizeable $216.4 million.
Two new comedies took third and fourth place in their debuts. In third place with $16.2 million from 3,440 theaters was the second Amy Schumer misfire in a years’ time, the STX comedy I Feel Pretty. The debut for the PG-13 comedy –a first for Schumer- was well below the $30 million scored by Trainwreck in 2015 and the $19.5 million brought in by last year’s dud, the Fox comedySnatched.
Critics gave the cold shoulder to I Feel Pretty, bestowing it with an ugly 34% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 45/100 on Metacritic. Ticket buyers were a little kinder to the $32 million production, but not by much. They gave the film a “B+” on CinemaScore. The mixed response from the public may explain why business dropped on its second day of release. It may also translate into a box office run that will be anything but pretty.
It may have taken seventeen years to get to the screen, but a sequel to 2001’s cult comedy hit Super Troopers has finally arrived. The Fox Searchlight-distributed Super Troopers 2 lit up 2,038 venues this weekend, where it earned a better-than-anticipated $14.7 million, good enough for a fourth place finish.
A majority of the weekend ticket sales for Troopers 2 came from opening day, where the Broken Lizard faithful came out in force and helped land the film in first place. After that, the film couldn’t get itself arrested. Saturday’s business was down a steep 45% and Sunday is forecasted to experience the same level of business decrease. Reviews were bad for Troopers 2 -35% on Rotten Tomatoes, 41/100 on Metacritic- but one has to wonder why the press would even bother to write them for this film in the first place.
Rounding out the top five was Universal’s horror flick Truth or Dare with an estimated $7.9 million from 3,086 screens. Down 58%, the domestic total for the latest cheapie Blumhouse Production flick stands at $30.3 million. A final haul near $45 million is a possibility.
- Ready Player One (Warner) $7.5 million (-35%); $126.1 million
- Blockers (Universal) $6.9 million (-35%); $48.2 million
- Black Panther (Disney/Marvel) $4.6 million (-20%); $681.1 million
- Traffik (Lionsgate) $3.875 million
- Isle of Dogs (FoxSearchlight) $3.4 million (-38%); $24.3 million
Next weekend, it’s all about Infinity War.
