weekend box office

The family horror film topped the box office again, besting films from The Rock and Amy Schumer. Here’s the full weekend box office report

The Marvel blockbuster has now made $1 billion worldwide. ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ came in second place with $33 million.

The Marvel blockbuster is the third-fastest film in history to $500 million.

The film is the second-fastest in history to $400 million domestically.

The sequel has now made twice as much as the 1995 original film.

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ has the second biggest opening weekend at the box office of all time, following shortly behind ‘The Force Awakens.’

With few new movies in theaters, Pixar’s latest animated hit dominated again.

A quiet weekend box office yielded the exact same top five as last week, and a few big new limited releases. Here’s the full chart.

Welcome to Augusts, where overall weekend grosses can decline for three consecutive weekends  —  $122, $116, and $95 million, respectively  —  and a new action-comedy can be the surprise winner of the weekend. Audiences might still be interested in creepy dolls, but it was a hyper-violent buddy film about professional killers that took home the gold. Here’s the box office projections, as of Sunday afternoon:

Who would you rather fight, a million spider-sized ape or one ape-sized spider? It’s a question that’s been haunting my mind since, oh, about an hour ago when I started to look up the box office numbers for this past weekend. And while I might not be any closer to solving my riddle, I can at least say this: when it comes to week-old spiders versus brand new primates, the primates are destined to win. Here’s the box office numbers as of Sunday afternoon:

Turn off your proton packs and fire up your Fleetwood Mac, it’s time for the latest edition of the ScreenCrush Weekend Box Office Report! There were few surprises to be found at the top of the list this weekend, but with a few big films nearing the end of their theatrical run, it’s a good time to take stock and see how things shook out. Here’s the projected grosses as of Sunday afternoon:

Audiences don’t turn their back on family. That’s the lesson to be learned from this past weekend, anyways, when The Fate of the Furious proved that this is one franchise showing no signs of slowing down. It was never a question of whether The Fate of the Furious would take the top spot this weekend, but even the most optimistic of projections couldn’t have expected the global domination that this movie undertook. Here’s the box office estimates as of Sunday afternoon: