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Here are this week-ends top 10 movies:
1
It
WB (NL)
$17,310,000 - WKND
$291,182,790 - GROSS
2
American Made
Uni.
$17,016,000 - WKND & GROSS (NEW MOVIE)
3
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Fox
$17,000,000 - WKND
$66,701,588 - GROSS
4
The LEGO Ninjago Movie
WB
$12,000,000 - WKND
$35,556,065 - GROSS
5
Flatliners (2017)
Sony
$6,700,000 - WKND & GROSS (NEW MOVIE)
6
Battle of the Sexes
FoxS
$3,400,000 - WKND
$4,073,158 - GROSS
7
American Assassin
LGF
$3,325,000 - WKND
$31,873,581 - GROSS
8
Home Again
ORF
$1,756,372 - WKND
$25,181,947 - GROSS
9
Til Death Do Us Part
NN
$1,567,966 - WKND & GROSS (NEW MOVIE)
10
mother!
Par.
$1,460,000 - WKND
$16,320,846 - GROSS
The big news out of this weekend is the three way tie for #1 between IT, Kingsman 2 and American Made. It looks like IT will come out on top, but just barely with $17.3 mil. Nipping at its heels though is American Made coming in at $17.01 mil. Next up is Kingsman 2 coming in at an even $17 mil. So all told only 310K separates the top three movies. Final numbers will be in later this afternoon, but projections show the top three movies to shake out as detailed above.
The other big news is this is riding the coattails of the phenomenal success that is IT, this September's box office receipts have totaled 20% more than last year's. In fact, because of August's spectacularly low box numbers, September is outpacing even it. Which is a bit of a misnomer since August has in recent memory been the month that ends out the summer with a bang. Instead this summer August went out with a whimper. Not for nothing, but Stephen King should be sitting on a mountain of cash right about now. Sure, he's already got mountains of money, but IT and the sequel coming out in 2019 should give him mountains more.
Finally, movie attendance has been down dramatically in recent years. Studios are quick to point the finger at Rotten Tomatoes as the culprit in keeping people away from theaters. But the other argument is movie studios need to stop making movies that suck. Whereas before social media it would sometimes take weeks for word of mouth to spread about a particular movie, nowadays it's instantaneous. So studios can no longer afford to take risks on making less than stellar movies. Not all movies need to be Oscar contenders, but they should be worth the money and time spent going to the theaters.
So did you go to the movies this weekend? If so, what did you see? Would you recommend it? Or would you recommend skipping it? Let's keep the conversation going in the comments section below.
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