2022 At The Box Office (1 Viewer)

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	(-)	Spider-Man: No Way Home — The More Fun Stuff Ve…	Sony Pictures	$6,000,000		3,935		$1,525	$810,793,477	38
2	(4)	Top Gun: Maverick	Paramount Pi…	$5,495,000	+16%	3,113	+151	$1,765	$698,824,744	15
3	(6)	DC League of Super Pets	Warner Bros.	$5,450,000	+32%	3,115	-169	$1,750	$80,806,058	6
4	(2)	Bullet Train	Sony Pictures	$5,400,000	-4%	3,117	-396	$1,732	$85,932,558	5
5	(1)	The Invitation	Sony Pictures	$4,705,000	-31%	3,114	n/c	$1,511	$13,749,963	2
6	(3)	Beast	Universal	$3,640,000	-25%	3,217	-537	$1,131	$25,419,575	3
7	(8)	Minions: The Rise of Gru	Universal	$3,130,000	+15%	2,457	-37	$1,274	$358,867,065	10
-	(9)	Thor: Love and Thunder	Walt Disney	$2,446,000	-8%	2,090	-360	$1,170	$339,962,296	9
-	(-)	Jaws	Universal	$2,300,000		1,246		$1,846	$2,300,000	2,464
-	(10)	Where the Crawdads Sing	Sony Pictures	$1,865,000	-19%	2,074	-142	$899	$84,855,398	8
-	(11)	Nope	Universal	$1,580,000	-28%	1,518	-391	$1,041	$120,125,275	7
-	(7)	Three Thousand Years of Longing	United Artists	$1,544,000	-47%	2,436	n/c	$634	$5,761,832	2
-	N	Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.	Focus Features	$1,440,000		1,882		$765	$1,440,000	1
-	(12)	Elvis	Warner Bros.	$1,100,000	-26%	1,431	-412	$769	$149,150,318	11
-	(-)	Orphan: First Kill	Paramount Pi…	$685,000	-25%	529	-28	$1,295	$4,373,662	3
-	(15)	Breaking	Bleecker Street	$648,491	-34%	909	+7	$713	$2,044,752	2
-	(-)	Jurassic World: Dominion	Universal	$455,000	-38%	770	-751	$591	$375,525,775	13
-	(14)	Bodies Bodies Bodies	A24	$452,838	-57%	1,036	-1,005	$437	$10,652,378	5
-	(-)	Fall	Lionsgate	$250,000	-43%	418	-425	$598	$6,354,420	4
-	(-)	The Black Phone	Universal	$203,000	-28%	253	-138	$802	$89,515,840	11
-	(-)	Easter Sunday	Universal	$169,000	-48%	331	-222	$511	$12,829,865	5
-	(-)	Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris	Focus Features	$127,000	-23%	267	-32	$476	$9,898,350	8
-	(-)	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	A24	$87,850	-15%	161	-8	$546	$6,015,702	11
-	(-)	Everything Everywhere All At Once	A24	$31,400	+15%	46	+7	$683	$69,872,838	24
-	(-)	Fire of Love	Neon	$10,775	-63%	41	-12	$263	$1,005,343	9
-	(-)	Lightyear	Walt Disney	$9,000	-20%	40	-5	$225	$118,303,889	12
-	N	Loving Highsmith	Zeitgeist	$6,800		1		$6,800	$6,800	1
-	N	Saloum	IFC Midnight	$2,050		2		$1,025	$2,050	1
		28		$49,233,204

 

[Wayne_j]

On a per screen basis Jaws outperformed every movie this weekend except for Loving Highsmith which opened on one screen, but Jaws' $1,846 per screen average was nothing compared to it's $19,048 average on the weekend of June 20th 1975.

 

[Malcolm R]

Looks like the $3 stunt was a hit even with relatively limited promotion, though many speculate that it just moved some of the business from Friday into Saturday. Ticket admissions for Saturday were about 8 million, which is on par with the entire 3-day portion of past recent Labor Day weekends in 2021 and 2019.

The whole point of the day is to attract those who haven’t been to the movies during the pandemic, in addition to provide life to cinemas at a time when studios don’t have any fresh fare. And headcount-wise, that is a mission accomplished: 8.1M people came out in one day, which is just under the total weekend admissions for the 3-day portion of Labor Day 2019 (8.2M per EntTelligence) and even higher than last year’s 3-day 7.8M, when Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was on the marquee. (Deadline)

 

[Wayne_j]

Actuals came out and they have Top Gun in first, Bullet Train in 2nd, and Spider-Man in 3rd. Jaws rose to 8th.

 

[TravisR]

Actuals came out and they have Top Gun in first...

So Top Gun was #1 on Memorial Day and again on Labor Day. That's gotta be a rarity.

 

[Jake Lipson]

That's gotta be a rarity.

Variety's report about the weekend says that according to Paramount, it is the only film to ever do that.

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Barbarian	20th Century…	$10,000,000		2,340		$4,274	$10,000,000	1
2	N	Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva	Fox Star India	$4,400,000		810		$5,432	$4,400,000	1
3	(2)	Bullet Train	Sony Pictures	$3,250,000	-44%	3,056	-61	$1,063	$92,543,738	6
4	(1)	Top Gun: Maverick	Paramount Pi…	$3,170,000	-47%	3,005	-108	$1,055	$705,650,344	16
5	(4)	DC League of Super Pets	Warner Bros.	$2,835,000	-44%	3,043	-72	$932	$85,421,285	7
6	(5)	The Invitation	Sony Pictures	$2,620,000	-46%	3,117	+3	$841	$18,845,563	3
7	N	Lifemark	Fathom Events	$2,212,288		1,531		$1,445	$2,212,288	1
8	(6)	Beast	Universal	$1,800,000	-55%	2,793	-424	$644	$29,375,780	4
9	(7)	Minions: The Rise of Gru	Universal	$1,650,000	-53%	2,274	-183	$726	$362,331,415	11
10	(3)	Spider-Man: No Way Home — The More Fun Stuff Ve…	Sony Pictures	$1,300,000	-76%	3,215	-720	$404	$813,348,862	39
11	(10)	Where the Crawdads Sing	Sony Pictures	$1,200,000	-41%	1,990	-84	$603	$87,588,924	9
12	(8)	Thor: Love and Thunder	Walt Disney	$1,000,000	-63%	1,850	-240	$541	$342,270,791	10
13	(11)	Nope	Universal	$830,000	-53%	1,142	-376	$727	$122,007,805	8
14	N	Medieval	The Avenue E…	$810,000		1,311		$618	$810,000	1
-	(9)	Jaws	Universal	$620,000	-76%	1,246	n/c	$498	$271,662,690	2,465
-	(-)	Elvis	Warner Bros.	$500,000	-55%	1,104	-327	$453	$150,287,493	12
-	(-)	Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.	Focus Features	$365,000	-74%	1,870	-12	$195	$2,399,225	2
-	(-)	Orphan: First Kill	Paramount Pi…	$300,000	-59%	428	-101	$701	$5,083,460	4
-	(-)	Breaking	Bleecker Street	$225,754	-66%	616	-293	$366	$2,646,465	3
-	(-)	Jurassic World: Dominion	Universal	$157,000	-67%	448	-322	$350	$375,859,130	14
-	(-)	Fall	Lionsgate	$155,000	-46%	267	-151	$581	$6,708,832	5
-	(-)	Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris	Focus Features	$112,000	-26%	341	+74	$328	$10,166,715	9
-	(-)	The Black Phone	Universal	$101,000	-59%	185	-68	$546	$89,751,845	12
-	N	UnFavorable Odds	Atlas Distri…	$58,184		445		$131	$58,184	1
-	(-)	Easter Sunday	Universal	$50,000	-71%	135	-196	$370	$12,970,050	6
-	N	Hockeyland	Greenwich	$49,500		64		$773	$49,500	1
-	N	Hold Me Tight	Kino Lorber	$15,051		5		$3,010	$15,051	1
		27		$39,785,777

 

[Keith Cobby]

Decided to see Top Gun this afternoon. With the theatrical reruns of the Bonds, I have seen more films theatrically this year than any period since the 1980s.

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	The Woman King	Sony Pictures	$19,000,000		3,765		$5,046	$19,000,000	1
2	(1)	Barbarian	20th Century…	$6,300,000	-40%	2,340	n/c	$2,692	$20,915,433	2
3	N	Pearl	A24	$3,124,600		2,935		$1,065	$3,124,600	1
4	N	See How They Run	Searchlight …	$3,100,000		2,404		$1,290	$3,100,000	1
5	(3)	Bullet Train	Sony Pictures	$2,500,000	-24%	2,602	-454	$961	$96,381,145	7
6	(4)	Top Gun: Maverick	Paramount Pi…	$2,180,477	-31%	2,604	-401	$837	$709,055,000	17
7	(6)	DC League of Super Pets	Warner Bros.	$2,175,000	-18%	2,756	-287	$789	$87,860,007	8
8	(5)	The Invitation	Sony Pictures	$1,700,000	-36%	2,425	-692	$701	$21,468,901	4
9	(9)	Minions: The Rise of Gru	Universal	$1,320,000	-24%	1,970	-304	$670	$364,099,540	12
10	N	Moonage Daydream	Neon	$1,225,000		170		$7,206	$1,225,000	1
11	(2)	Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva	Fox Star India	$1,100,000	-76%	810	n/c	$1,358	$6,769,739	2
12	(8)	Beast	Universal	$820,000	-54%	1,664	-1,129	$493	$30,766,160	5
-	(11)	Where the Crawdads Sing	Sony Pictures	$700,000	-44%	1,521	-469	$460	$88,875,124	10
-	N	Running The Bases	UP2U Films	$545,500		1,080		$505	$545,500	1
-	(13)	Nope	Universal	$410,000	-51%	671	-471	$611	$122,746,455	9
-	(12)	Thor: Love and Thunder	Walt Disney	$373,000	-63%	820	-1,030	$455	$342,944,605	11
-	N	God’s Country	IFC Films	$300,000		785		$382	$300,000	1
-	N	Confess, Fletch	Paramount Pi…	$260,000		516		$504	$260,000	1
-	(10)	Spider-Man: No Way Home — The More Fun Stuff Ve…	Sony Pictures	$220,000	-84%	860	-2,355	$256	$813,977,753	40
-	(15)	Jaws	Universal	$210,000	-68%	702	-544	$299	$272,159,580	2,466
-	(-)	Orphan: First Kill	Paramount Pi…	$135,464	-56%	224	-204	$605	$5,350,000	5
-	(-)	Fall	Lionsgate	$125,000	-20%	213	-54	$587	$6,893,115	6
-	N	The Silent Twins	Focus Features	$102,000		279		$366	$102,000	1
-	(-)	Bodies Bodies Bodies	A24	$78,385	-61%	361	-290	$217	$11,354,812	7
-	(-)	The Black Phone	Universal	$67,000	-38%	125	-60	$536	$89,857,800	13
-	(-)	Jurassic World: Dominion	Universal	$64,000	-61%	205	-243	$312	$375,977,460	15
-	(-)	Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris	Focus Features	$56,000	-56%	226	-115	$248	$10,318,385	10
-	(-)	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	A24	$33,321	-66%	116	-45	$287	$6,277,343	13
-	(-)	Easter Sunday	Universal	$16,000	-69%	82	-53	$195	$13,005,330	7
-	(-)	Everything Everywhere All At Once	A24	$15,100	-44%	43	-3	$351	$69,975,475	26
-	N	The African Desperate	MUBI	$12,126		2		$6,063	$12,126	1
		31		$48,267,973

Our box office charts are compiled from data provided to us by distributors. To be included on our charts, please send reports to [email protected].

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Don’t Worry, Darling	Warner Bros.	$19,200,000		4,113		$4,668	$19,200,000	1
2	(1)	The Woman King	Sony Pictures	$11,145,000	-42%	3,765	n/c	$2,960	$36,298,724	2
3	(-)	Avatar	20th Century…	$10,000,000		1,860		$5,376	$770,507,625	667
4	(2)	Barbarian	20th Century…	$4,800,000	-26%	2,890	+550	$1,661	$28,430,261	3
5	(3)	Pearl	A24	$1,918,555	-39%	2,982	+47	$643	$6,651,255	2
6	(4)	See How They Run	Searchlight …	$1,900,000	-37%	2,502	+98	$759	$6,105,039	2
7	(5)	Bullet Train	Sony Pictures	$1,815,000	-29%	1,907	-695	$952	$99,247,954	8
8	(7)	DC League of Super Pets	Warner Bros.	$1,765,000	-19%	2,351	-405	$751	$90,041,911	9
9	(6)	Top Gun: Maverick	Paramount Pi…	$1,559,847	-30%	2,025	-579	$770	$711,568,000	18
10	(9)	Minions: The Rise of Gru	Universal	$1,040,000	-25%	1,642	-328	$633	$365,547,230	13
11	(8)	The Invitation	Sony Pictures	$1,000,000	-43%	1,676	-749	$597	$23,083,944	5
12	(10)	Moonage Daydream	Neon	$922,000	-25%	733	+563	$1,258	$2,600,526	2
13	(11)	Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva	Fox Star India	$415,000	-62%	460	-350	$902	$7,523,960	3
14	(12)	Beast	Universal	$400,000	-52%	750	-914	$533	$31,451,800	6
15	N	Cuando Sea Joven	Pantelion Films	$270,000		315		$857	$270,000	1
-	(-)	Running The Bases	UP2U Films	$235,000	-56%	697	-383	$337	$1,039,028	2
-	(-)	Nope	Universal	$175,000	-59%	313	-358	$559	$123,113,710	10
-	N	On the Come Up	Paramount Pi…	$150,000		603		$249	$150,000	1
-	(-)	Fall	Lionsgate	$120,000	-7%	167	-46	$719	$7,063,960	7
-	(-)	Thor: Love and Thunder	Walt Disney	$100,000	-73%	230	-590	$435	$343,152,809	12
-	(-)	Confess, Fletch	Paramount Pi…	$84,235	-68%	242	-274	$348	$498,000	2
-	(-)	The Silent Twins	Focus Features	$32,000	-69%	279	n/c	$115	$185,655	2
-	N	Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche	Greenwich	$18,358		8		$2,295	$18,358	1
-	(-)	Bodies Bodies Bodies	A24	$18,254	-77%	172	-189	$106	$11,413,075	8
-	(-)	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	A24	$15,552	-53%	25	-91	$622	$6,306,639	14
-	(-)	Everything Everywhere All At Once	A24	$9,057	-40%	28	-15	$323	$69,993,469	27
		26		$59,107,858

 

[Malcolm R]

So the biggest crowds of the weekend were seeing Avatar, based on those per-screen averages.

 

[TravisR]

So the biggest crowds of the weekend were seeing Avatar, based on those per-screen averages.

You'd know better than me but wouldn't the IMAX/3D/premium ticket prices account for Avatar making more per screen than Don't Worry Darling?

 

[Malcolm R]

Yes, it inflated the average for Avatar. But it's still an indication that a number of people were choosing to spend $15 on a ticket to Avatar vs. $12 on a ticket to other films.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

If I had been able to get out these weekend I would have seen both Avatar and Don’t Worry Darling. I’d still like to.

I was actually surprised to see Avatar do so well because, at least locally, it’s not. Out of boredom I was checking the seating chart at my local suburban IMAX all weekend, and they didn’t sell a single ticket for Friday. I’m glad it did better elsewhere.

 

[TravisR]

I was actually surprised to see Avatar do so well because, at least locally, it’s not. Out of boredom I was checking the seating chart at my local suburban IMAX all weekend, and they didn’t sell a single ticket for Friday.

Weird. My local AMC (no IMAX) had it in 3D and nearly every show was at least 2/3 full all weekend. I went to a Regal so I could see it in IMAX 3D and my screening wasn't that crowded but the earlier 4DX show was packed and so were their 3D and 2D shows.

As an aside, I liked Avatar more seeing it for the first time in probably a decade. I never disliked the movie or anything but today, the last hour really pulled me in despite remembering the broad strokes of what happens.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I still remember the excitement of seeing the midnight opening screening in IMAX 3D back in 2009… I had tickets earlier in the evening to see Carrie Fisher’s show “Wishful Drinking” on Broadway and then walked from the play theater to the movie theater. That was a particularly delightful night of geekdom.

 

[TravisR]

I still remember the excitement of seeing the midnight opening screening in IMAX 3D back in 2009…

I saw Avatar at its first show on opening day (if there was a midnight show near me, I was unaware) in IMAX and nearly 13 years later, I was in the same room seeing it in IMAX again. They remodeled the building during Covid but the bones of the theater are still the same.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I saw Avatar at its first show on opening day (if there was a midnight show near me, I was unaware) in IMAX and nearly 13 years later, I was in the same room seeing it in IMAX again. They remodeled the building during Covid but the bones of the theater are still the same.

I’d love to see it again at the same theater I originally did - real life responsibilities make taking that trip not really practical for me these days, but I’m glad there was a time in my life when I had the time to travel over an hour each way to see a killer movie on a giant screen.

Cameron has kids now (again?) and I saw a recent interview with him where he said they only knew Avatar as this dopey thing dad made that they saw on streaming, and he told the interviewer that they just got to see it in IMAX 3D now and finally “got it.”

 

[Jake Lipson]

So the biggest crowds of the weekend were seeing Avatar, based on those per-screen averages.

It's also worth noting that Avatar is in significantly fewer theaters (1,860) than either Don't Worry Darling (4,113) or The Woman King (3,765) and it is a much longer film than either of those. So there were more showtimes options available for those movies. Therefore, the audience for Avatar was less spread out.

But it certainly did very well for a 13-year-old film that is available to watch at home.

 

[Tino]

Index

		Movie Title	Distributor	Gross	%LW	Theaters	Theaters Change	Per Theater	Total Gross	Weekends In Release
1	N	Smile	Paramount Pi…	$22,000,000		3,650		$6,027	$22,000,000	1
2	(1)	Don’t Worry, Darling	Warner Bros.	$7,300,000	-62%	4,121	+8	$1,771	$32,804,643	2
3	(2)	The Woman King	Sony Pictures	$7,000,000	-36%	3,504	-261	$1,998	$46,713,156	3
4	N	Bros	Universal	$4,800,000		3,350		$1,433	$4,800,000	1
5	(3)	Avatar	20th Century…	$4,696,000	-55%	1,860	n/c	$2,525	$779,100,388	668
6	N	Ponniyin Selvan: Part One	Sarigama Cin…	$4,100,000		500		$8,200	$4,100,000	1
7	(4)	Barbarian	20th Century…	$2,817,000	-42%	2,720	-170	$1,036	$33,107,280	4
8	(7)	Bullet Train	Sony Pictures	$2,400,000	+32%	1,931	+24	$1,243	$102,333,720	9
9	(8)	DC League of Super Pets	Warner Bros.	$1,305,000	-25%	1,924	-427	$678	$91,693,642	10
10	(9)	Top Gun: Maverick	Paramount Pi…	$1,230,112	-24%	1,561	-464	$788	$713,457,000	19
11	(5)	See How They Run	Searchlight …	$1,007,000	-47%	1,650	-852	$610	$7,946,056	3
12	(10)	Minions: The Rise of Gru	Universal	$940,000	-11%	1,414	-228	$665	$366,825,085	14
-	(6)	Pearl	A24	$724,900	-62%	1,638	-1,344	$443	$8,256,229	3
-	(11)	The Invitation	Sony Pictures	$475,000	-54%	1,027	-649	$463	$23,951,601	6
-	(12)	Moonage Daydream	Neon	$472,500	-48%	675	-58	$700	$3,438,343	3
-	(15)	Where the Crawdads Sing	Sony Pictures	$180,000	-49%	548	-331	$328	$89,942,361	12
-	(14)	Beast	Universal	$165,000	-57%	408	-342	$404	$31,699,890	7
-	(13)	Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva	Fox Star India	$135,000	-65%	170	-290	$794	$7,752,341	4
-	(-)	Running The Bases	UP2U Films	$113,000	-53%	377	-320	$300	$1,272,942	3
-	(-)	Cuando Sea Joven	Pantelion Films	$92,600	-66%	188	-127	$493	$453,496	2
-	(-)	Nope	Universal	$70,000	-60%	182	-131	$385	$123,252,400	11
-	(-)	Fall	Lionsgate	$68,000	-41%	112	-55	$607	$7,158,838	8
-	(-)	Thor: Love and Thunder	Walt Disney	$41,000	-60%	105	-125	$390	$343,226,234	13
-	(-)	RRR: Rise, Roar, Revolt	Sarigama Cin…	$21,083		1		$21,083	$13,877,863	28
-	N	Vesper	IFC Films	$20,000		44		$455	$20,000	1
-	(-)	On the Come Up	Paramount Pi…	$14,671	-90%	145	-458	$101	$229,000	2
-	(-)	Bodies Bodies Bodies	A24	$9,547	-51%	67	-105	$142	$11,434,410	9
-	(-)	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	A24	$9,291	-41%	21	-4	$442	$6,324,745	15
-	N	Sirens	Oscilloscope…	$8,890		1		$8,890	$8,890	1
-	(-)	Everything Everywhere All At Once	A24	$5,837	-38%	28	n/c	$208	$70,006,221	28
		30		$62,221,431