Monday Update: Warner Bros.’ horror prequel Annabelle: Creation was the belle of the ball at the box office, earning an estimated $35.0 million opening weekend. Warner Bros. also took second place with Dunkirk still earning solid numbers after a month in theaters. And Open Road’s animated The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature didn’t do a great “job” with a third place start of $8.3 million, less than half its predecessor’s opening.
The full table of weekend actuals is at bottom, after our Sunday update with more numbers and analysis.
Sunday Update: Warner Bros.’ horror prequel Annabelle: Creation was the belle of the ball at the box office, earning an estimated $35.0 million opening weekend.
The fourth installment in the Conjuring / Annabelle horror franchise, Creation had the widest release by number of theaters, yet posted the lowest opening weekend among the four films. But not by much — the previous three films had all opened between $37 million and $41 million, and $35 million falls within that general range.
Plus this film opened in August, usually a lower-grossing month than the months in which the three previous installments were released: July, October, and June, respectively.
Creation earned a “B” CinemaScore from an audience that was 52 percent female and 54 percent older than age 25. It also posted a 68 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Will it beat the final total of the original Annabelle‘s $84.2 million? That film opened in early October, so its subsequent weeks after opening had the benefit of imminent Halloween anticipation, a timing that Creation can’t match.
Open Road’s animated sequel The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature didn’t do a great “job,” starting in third place with an estimated $8.9 million.
That’s 54 percent below the opening of the original The Nut Job, a film which had the added disadvantage of opening in January. The sequel may have been hurt by poor word of mouth, including an 11 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Lionsgate’s drama The Glass Castle started in ninth place with an estimated $4.8 million.
That was about in line with pre-release expectations, which were lowered in part by the film’s small theater count of only 1,461 theaters nationwide. Based on the bestselling 2005 novel by Jeanette Walls which spent 261 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, the film adaptation was unable to capitalize on the popularity of the book.
Warner Bros.’ war drama Dunkirk held onto second place with an estimated $11.4 million, a 33 percent drop. Coming off its 35 percent decline the prior weekend, the film is holding very well, and might possibly even remain in the top 10 through September. With $153.7 million so far, the title may ultimately surpass $200 million, which few would have expected.
The top 10 films this weekend earned an estimated $96.5 million total. That’s 8.4 percent below the total earned by the top 10 last weekend. It’s also 55.6 percent below the total earned by the top 10 on this weekend last year, when Suicide Squad led with $133.6 million.
Year to date box office is running about 4.3 percent behind last year.
Overseas Update:
The overseas box office continues to be dominated by the Chinese release Wolf Warrior 2, which earned $84 million in its third week of release in China. It’s now earned a stunning $682 million to date in China and still rising, surpassing the likes of Titanic.
The film posted the second-best third weekend ever in China, behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens. However, it has so far barely made a dent at the U.S. box office, with $420 thousand this weekend and $1.9 million total.
Weekend Actuals for Friday, August 11 – Sunday, August 13, 2017:
| # | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annabelle: Creation | $35,006,404 | — | 3,502 | — | $9,996 | $35,006,404 | 1 | Warner Bros. / New Line |
| 2 | Dunkirk | $10,884,117 | -36% | 3,762 | -252 | $2,893 | $153,191,668 | 4 | Warner Bros. |
| 3 | The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature | $8,342,311 | — | 4,003 | — | $2,084 | $8,342,311 | 1 | Open Road |
| 4 | The Dark Tower | $7,820,154 | -59% | 3,451 | 0 | $2,266 | $34,250,918 | 2 | Sony / Columbia |
| 5 | Girls Trip | $6,466,475 | -43% | 2,303 | -279 | $2,808 | $97,139,980 | 4 | Universal |
| 6 | The Emoji Movie | $6,450,927 | -46% | 3,219 | -856 | $2,004 | $63,437,874 | 3 | Sony / Columbia |
| 7 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | $6,022,637 | -32% | 2,607 | -509 | $2,310 | $306,376,331 | 6 | Sony / Columbia |
| 8 | Kidnap | $5,096,823 | -49% | 2,418 | 40 | $2,108 | $19,266,106 | 2 | Aviron Pictures |
| 9 | The Glass Castle | $4,678,548 | — | 1,461 | — | $3,202 | $4,678,548 | 1 | LionsgateLionsgate |
| 10 | Atomic Blonde | $4,480,635 | -45% | 2,093 | -1233 | $2,141 | $42,727,860 | 3 | Focus Features |
| 11 | War for the Planet of the Apes | $3,603,698 | -42% | 2,098 | -606 | $1,718 | $137,232,191 | 5 | Fox |
| 12 | Despicable Me 3 | $3,129,420 | -42% | 2,013 | -432 | $1,555 | $247,735,865 | 7 | Universal |
| 13 | Detroit | $2,888,794 | -59% | 3,007 | 0 | $961 | $13,300,258 | 3 | Annapurna Pictures |
| # | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Big Sick | $1,463,932 | -32% | 709 | -296 | $2,065 | $36,407,780 | 8 | Lionsgate |
| 2 | Wonder Woman | $1,447,475 | -37% | 961 | -346 | $1,506 | $402,175,560 | 11 | Warner Bros. |
| 3 | Baby Driver | $1,441,906 | -44% | 865 | -559 | $1,667 | $100,033,833 | 7 | Sony / TriStar |
| 4 | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | $901,323 | -62% | 877 | -918 | $1,028 | $38,359,317 | 4 | EuropaCorp/STXfilms |
| 5 | An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power | $815,947 | -15% | 556 | 376 | $1,468 | $2,311,608 | 3 | Paramount |
| 6 | Toilet: Ek Prem Katha | $678,532 | — | 176 | — | $3,855 | $678,532 | 1 | Reliance Pictures |
| 7 | Cars 3 | $330,052 | -39% | 308 | -169 | $1,072 | $148,324,248 | 9 | Disney |
| 8 | Transformers: The Last Knight | $264,575 | -12% | 255 | -67 | $1,038 | $129,816,057 | 8 | Paramount |
| 9 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | $257,117 | -43% | 210 | -42 | $1,224 | $388,879,065 | 15 | Disney |
| 10 | Maudie | $163,450 | -36% | 163 | -24 | $1,003 | $5,414,986 | 9 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| 11 | 47 Meters Down | $149,881 | -48% | 173 | -238 | $866 | $43,366,934 | 9 | Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures |
| 12 | Captain Underpants | $145,805 | -30% | 178 | -51 | $819 | $73,146,971 | 11 | Fox / DreamWorks Animation |
| 13 | The House (2017) | $130,071 | 33% | 148 | 24 | $879 | $25,319,339 | 7 | Warner Bros. / New Line |
| 14 | Landline | $130,001 | -43% | 137 | -6 | $949 | $731,202 | 4 | Magnolia Pictures |
| 15 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | $110,891 | -39% | 125 | -42 | $887 | $171,563,981 | 12 | Disney |
| 16 | Lady Macbeth | $82,883 | -50% | 119 | -13 | $696 | $923,995 | 5 | Roadside Attractions |
| 17 | Wish Upon | $81,060 | -74% | 115 | -230 | $705 | $13,990,386 | 5 | Broad Green Pictures |
| 18 | The Mummy | $59,615 | -57% | 102 | -44 | $584 | $80,072,590 | 10 | Universal |
| 19 | Rough Night | $33,932 | -28% | 185 | 158 | $183 | $22,008,534 | 9 | Sony |
| # | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wind River | $612,683 | 279% | 45 | 41 | $13,615 | $840,901 | 2 | The Weinstein Company |
| 2 | Wolf Warrior 2 | $413,510 | -18% | 52 | 20 | $7,952 | $1,926,837 | 3 | The H Collective |
| 3 | A Taxi Driver | $331,854 | — | 41 | — | $8,094 | $331,854 | 1 | Well Go USA |
| 4 | Once Upon A Time | $249,933 | — | 51 | — | $4,901 | $249,933 | 1 | Well Go USA Entertainment |
| 5 | Menashe | $172,514 | 123% | 47 | 37 | $3,671 | $396,259 | 3 | A24 |
| 6 | Ingrid Goes West | $135,301 | — | 3 | — | $45,100 | $135,301 | 1 | Neon |
| 7 | Good Time | $125,101 | — | 4 | — | $31,275 | $125,101 | 1 | A24 |
| 8 | The Little Hours | $59,602 | -13% | 60 | 0 | $993 | $1,441,416 | 7 | Gunpowder & Sky |
| 9 | The Only Living Boy In New York | $54,458 | — | 15 | — | $3,631 | $54,458 | 1 | Roadside Attractions / Amazon Studios |
| 10 | The Midwife | $52,363 | -37% | 43 | 0 | $1,218 | $337,431 | 4 | Music Box Films |
| 11 | Brigsby Bear | $51,121 | 31% | 37 | 22 | $1,382 | $168,177 | 3 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| 12 | Columbus | $44,860 | 67% | 7 | 5 | $6,409 | $86,937 | 2 | Sundance Institute’s Creative Distribution Fellowship |
| 13 | Whose Streets? | $43,804 | — | 24 | — | $1,825 | $43,804 | 1 | Magnolia Pictures |
| 14 | Megan Leavey | $42,411 | -42% | 75 | -21 | $565 | $13,050,700 | 10 | Bleeker Street |
| 15 | A Ghost Story | $41,744 | -71% | 57 | -151 | $732 | $1,456,089 | 6 | A24 |
| 16 | Lost in Paris | $33,951 | -33% | 25 | -10 | $1,358 | $472,713 | 9 | Oscilloscope Laboratories |
| 17 | Beatriz at Dinner | $31,860 | -26% | 41 | -3 | $777 | $6,992,367 | 10 | Roadside Attractions |
| 18 | The Boss Baby | $26,188 | -56% | 87 | -33 | $301 | $174,880,623 | 20 | Fox / DreamWorks Animation |
| 19 | Mubarakan | $25,702 | -82% | 22 | -106 | $1,168 | $740,071 | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing International |
| 20 | The Hero | $22,421 | -28% | 41 | -12 | $547 | $3,965,661 | 10 | The Orchard |
| 21 | The Women’s Balcony | $17,345 | 16% | 16 | 2 | $1,084 | $1,104,530 | 24 | Menemsha Films |
| 22 | We Love You, Sally Carmichael! | $13,212 | -57% | 11 | 4 | $1,201 | $58,853 | 2 | Purdie Distribution |
| 23 | Alien: Covenant | $11,757 | -63% | 45 | -29 | $261 | $74,228,655 | 13 | Fox |
| 24 | The Nile Hilton Incident | $9,183 | — | 2 | — | $4,592 | $9,183 | 1 | Strand Releasing |
| 25 | It Comes At Night | $7,749 | 8% | 5 | -10 | $1,550 | $13,869,900 | 10 | A24 |
| 26 | The Farthest | $6,900 | — | 2 | — | $3,450 | $6,900 | 1 | Abramorama |
| 27 | The Fencer | $5,812 | — | 4 | — | $1,453 | $15,146 | 4 | CFI Releasing |
| 28 | Love, Kennedy | $5,401 | -30% | 12 | -2 | $450 | $364,326 | 11 | Purdie Distribution |
| 29 | Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk | $4,602 | -34% | 0 | -2 | — | $23,978 | 3 | Abramorama |
| 30 | Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge | $3,868 | 155% | 4 | 0 | $967 | $121,064 | 7 | Society Films |
| 31 | Dawson City: Frozen Time | $3,678 | -3% | 6 | 1 | $613 | $104,644 | 10 | Kino Lorber Films |
| 32 | Person to Person | $3,105 | -66% | 9 | -4 | $345 | $39,057 | 3 | Magnolia Pictures |
| 33 | 4 Days in France | $3,028 | -19% | 2 | 1 | $1,514 | $8,925 | 2 | Cinema Guild |
| 34 | Amnesia | $2,943 | — | 1 | — | $2,943 | $8,016 | 4 | Film Movement |
| 35 | Letters from Baghdad | $2,878 | 1% | 5 | -2 | $576 | $307,176 | 11 | Vitagraph Films |
| 36 | Slack Bay | $2,853 | -41% | 3 | -1 | $951 | $99,920 | 17 | Kino Lorber Films |
| 37 | Machines | $2,838 | — | 1 | — | $2,838 | $4,530 | 1 | Kino Lober Films |
| 38 | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World | $2,703 | -62% | 3 | 1 | $901 | $63,109 | 3 | Kino Lorber |
| 39 | Hare Krishna! | $2,312 | -62% | 1 | -1 | $2,312 | $71,810 | 9 | Abramorama |
| 40 | I Am The Blues | $2,285 | 2947% | 2 | 1 | $1,143 | $21,125 | 5 | Film Movement |
| 41 | The Exception | $2,148 | -51% | 4 | -1 | $537 | $700,221 | 11 | A24 |
| 42 | Churchill | $2,127 | -55% | 4 | 0 | $532 | $1,279,681 | 11 | Cohen Media Group |
| 43 | In Pursuit of Silence | $1,873 | — | 1 | — | $1,873 | $17,127 | 8 | Cinema Guild |
| 44 | The Untamed | $1,723 | -69% | 4 | -4 | $431 | $22,038 | 4 | Strand Releasing |
| 45 | False Confessions | $1,600 | — | 3 | — | $533 | $23,236 | 5 | Big World Pictures |
| 46 | Stalker | $1,581 | -8% | 1 | 0 | $1,581 | $254,635 | 15 | Janus |
| 47 | Manifesto | $1,331 | — | 1 | — | $1,331 | $160,101 | 14 | FilmRise |
| 48 | Pop Aye | $1,253 | -64% | 5 | 0 | $251 | $59,479 | 7 | Kino Lorber |
| 49 | The Girl Without Hands | $1,233 | -1% | 4 | 0 | $308 | $10,016 | 4 | GKIDS |
| 50 | My Journey Through French Cinema | $778 | 2% | 2 | 0 | $389 | $52,058 | 8 | Cohen Media Group |
| 51 | Moka | $730 | -75% | 2 | 0 | $365 | $117,576 | 9 | Film Movement |
| 52 | Obit. | $665 | 19% | 2 | 0 | $333 | $312,324 | 16 | Kino Lorber |
| 53 | Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan | $618 | — | 1 | — | $618 | $147,780 | 12 | Abramorama |
| 54 | Afterimage | $372 | — | 1 | — | $372 | $30,066 | 13 | Film Movement |
| 55 | The Ornithologist | $243 | -78% | 2 | -3 | $122 | $45,848 | 8 | Strand Releasing |
| 56 | L’Important C’est D’Aimer (2017 re-release) | $213 | -59% | 1 | 0 | $213 | $16,410 | 5 | Rialto Pictures |
| 57 | Harmonium | $126 | — | 1 | — | $126 | $16,413 | 9 | Film Movement |
Studio Weekend Estimates for Friday, August 11 – Sunday, August 13, 2017:
| # | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annabelle: Creation | $35,040,000 | — | 3,502 | — | $10,006 | $35,040,000 | 1 | Warner Bros. / New Line |
| 2 | Dunkirk | $11,405,000 | -33% | 3,762 | -252 | $3,032 | $153,712,551 | 4 | Warner Bros. |
| 3 | The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature | $8,934,748 | — | 4,003 | — | $2,232 | $8,934,748 | 1 | Open Road |
| 4 | The Dark Tower | $7,875,000 | -59% | 3,451 | 0 | $2,282 | $34,305,764 | 2 | Sony / Columbia |
| 5 | Girls Trip | $6,520,500 | -43% | 2,303 | -279 | $2,831 | $97,194,005 | 4 | Universal |
| 6 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | $6,100,000 | -31% | 2,607 | -509 | $2,340 | $306,453,694 | 6 | Sony / Columbia |
| 7 | The Emoji Movie | $6,000,000 | -50% | 3,219 | -856 | $1,864 | $62,986,947 | 3 | Sony / Columbia |
| 8 | Kidnap | $5,225,000 | -48% | 2,418 | 40 | $2,161 | $19,394,283 | 2 | Aviron Pictures |
| 9 | The Glass Castle | $4,875,000 | — | 1,461 | — | $3,337 | $4,875,000 | 1 | LionsgateLionsgate |
| 10 | Atomic Blonde | $4,572,350 | -44% | 2,093 | -1233 | $2,185 | $42,819,575 | 3 | Focus Features |
| 11 | War for the Planet of the Apes | $3,700,000 | -40% | 2,098 | -606 | $1,764 | $137,328,493 | 5 | Fox |
| 12 | Despicable Me 3 | $3,061,210 | -44% | 2,013 | -432 | $1,521 | $247,667,655 | 7 | Universal |
| 13 | Detroit | $3,010,000 | -58% | 3,007 | 0 | $1,001 | $13,421,464 | 3 | Annapurna Pictures |
| # | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Big Sick | $1,525,000 | -29% | 709 | -296 | $2,151 | $1,525,000 | 8 | Lionsgate |
| 2 | Baby Driver | $1,475,000 | -43% | 865 | -559 | $1,705 | $100,066,927 | 7 | Sony / TriStar |
| 3 | Wonder Woman | $1,473,000 | -36% | 961 | -346 | $1,533 | $402,201,085 | 11 | Warner Bros. |
| 4 | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | $890,000 | -63% | 785 | -1010 | $1,134 | $38,347,994 | 4 | EuropaCorp/STXfilms |
| 5 | An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power | $800,000 | -17% | 556 | 376 | $1,439 | $2,295,661 | 3 | Paramount |
| 6 | Toilet: Ek Prem Katha | $709,420 | — | 177 | — | $4,008 | $709,420 | 1 | Reliance Pictures |
| 7 | Cars 3 | $369,000 | -32% | 308 | -169 | $1,198 | $148,363,196 | 9 | Disney |
| 8 | Step | $278,000 | 90% | 185 | 156 | $1,503 | $478,366 | 2 | Fox Searchlight |
| 9 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | $262,000 | -42% | 210 | -42 | $1,248 | $388,883,948 | 15 | Disney |
| 10 | Transformers: The Last Knight | $250,000 | -17% | 255 | -67 | $980 | $129,801,483 | 8 | Paramount |
| 11 | Maudie | $172,655 | -32% | 163 | -24 | $1,059 | $5,424,191 | 9 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| 12 | 47 Meters Down | $140,000 | -52% | 173 | -238 | $809 | $43,357,053 | 9 | Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures |
| 13 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | $116,000 | -36% | 125 | -42 | $928 | $171,569,090 | 12 | Disney |
| 14 | Lady Macbeth | $91,585 | -45% | 119 | -13 | $770 | $932,697 | 5 | Roadside Attractions |
| # | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wind River | $642,067 | 297% | 45 | 41 | $14,268 | $870,285 | 2 | The Weinstein Company |
| 2 | Wolf Warrior 2 | $420,000 | -17% | 52 | 20 | $8,077 | $1,933,327 | 3 | The H Collective |
| 3 | A Taxi Driver | $332,000 | — | 41 | — | $8,098 | $332,000 | 1 | Well Go USA |
| 4 | Once Upon A Time | $256,500 | — | 51 | — | $5,029 | $256,500 | 1 | Well Go USA Entertainment |
| 5 | Menashe | $197,963 | 156% | 47 | 37 | $4,212 | $421,708 | 3 | A24 |
| 6 | Good Time | $137,625 | — | 4 | — | $34,406 | $137,625 | 1 | A24 |
| 7 | The Little Hours | $61,165 | -10% | 60 | 0 | $1,019 | $1,442,979 | 7 | Gunpowder & Sky |
| 8 | The Only Living Boy In New York | $57,619 | — | 15 | — | $3,841 | $57,619 | 1 | Roadside Attractions / Amazon Studios |
| 9 | Brigsby Bear | $55,621 | 43% | 37 | 22 | $1,503 | $172,677 | 3 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| 10 | A Ghost Story | $49,415 | -66% | 57 | -151 | $867 | $1,463,761 | 6 | A24 |
| 11 | The Midwife | $48,500 | -42% | 40 | -3 | $1,213 | $333,568 | 4 | Music Box Films |
| 12 | The Trip to Spain | $45,306 | — | 3 | — | $15,102 | $45,306 | 1 | IFC Films |
| 13 | Columbus | $44,460 | 66% | 7 | 5 | $6,351 | $86,537 | 2 | Sundance Institute’s Creative Distribution Fellowship |
| 14 | Megan Leavey | $40,436 | -45% | 75 | -21 | $539 | $13,048,725 | 10 | Bleeker Street |
| 15 | Lost in Paris | $33,000 | -35% | 23 | -12 | $1,435 | $471,762 | 9 | Oscilloscope Laboratories |
| 16 | Beatriz at Dinner | $25,500 | -41% | 40 | -4 | $638 | $6,980,180 | 10 | Roadside Attractions |
| 17 | The Hero | $24,769 | -20% | 42 | -11 | $590 | $3,968,009 | 10 | The Orchard |
| 18 | City of Ghosts | $10,230 | 153% | 11 | -2 | $930 | $127,468 | 6 | IFC Films / Amazon |
| 19 | Churchill | $2,127 | -55% | 4 | 0 | $532 | $1,279,681 | 11 | Cohen Media Group |
| 20 | Manifesto | $1,100 | — | 1 | — | $1,100 | $159,870 | 14 | FilmRise |
| 21 | My Journey Through French Cinema | $778 | 2% | 2 | 0 | $389 | $52,058 | 8 | Cohen Media Group |
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