Hey everyone. I'm only making this because whenever I don't update on time many of you lovely folks ask when the next post will be. Unfortunately I'm skipping the full write-up last minute this week because I just got a call in for my work and it's super last minute so I need to go to be like right away when I'm writing this and will be gone all day tomorrow which eats up my usual time so no dumb quips and phony analysis but more importantly no hard numbers either. Sorry about that. To hold you over here's a brief summary of the important news items below. Hope y'all will still be your usual awesome insanely intelligent selves in the comments.Glass was #1 again with $19M which was a drop of around 52.8%. Not the best, especially in comparison with previous film in series Split which in comparison is outpacing it already. Still not worst drop ever for Shyamalan (which is The Village with 67.5%) and hey the movie has made over $150M worldwide on a budget of $20M. While I think advertising was more heavy than Split (which also cost half as much), that's still pretty great.The Kid Who Would be King is the long awaited second film from Joe Cornish (Attack the Block) but seems general audiences weren't as enthused as it opened at #4 to just $7.2M. Film received good reviews from critics but bland marketing and a bad release time (kids back in school) made this DOA. Look for cult status on this one.Serenity surprised everyone not with its box office, which was expectedly terrible, but by how goddamn weird it ended up being. The film opened terribly at #8 with $4.8M. Notably the film was savaged by critics who especially found its bizarre ending just a world of weird. Audiences hated it too, giving it a terrible D+ on Cinemascore. Expect cult status on this one too but maybe for the wrong reasons.Aquaman became the biggest DC film ever worldwide as it passed The Dark Knight Rises' worldwide gross with$1.09B. As mentioned before most of that success for Aquaman is foreign as the film is still $150M shy of TDKR's domestic gross but still beat it in overall worldwide standings.Lots of Oscar nominated films saw expansions this weekend. Green Book added 1,500 theaters and slipped back into the top 10 at #6 with $5.4M, the best boost of the week for any nominee. The Favourite, which tied with Roma for most noms, added 1000 theaters for $2.5M. Bohemian Rhapsody added 245 theaters and made $2.4M. Vice added 380 theaters and made $1.7M which is actually slightly less than the week before. A Star is Born added 777 theaters and made $1.2M. And notably films that were vying for a BP or other major nom but didn't make it lost theaters: Mary Poppins Returns (down 825), On the Basis of Sex (down 685), and If Beale Street Could Talk (down 412). via /r/movies http://bit.ly/2MBirce
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