Well, at leastCate Blanchettis having a good weekend, and in the grand scheme of things that’s really all that matters.The House with a Clock in Its Wallseasily took the top spot at the box office this weekend, ticking past expectations to take in $26.8 million. Eli Roth’s PG-spookshow shared the top 3 spots with holdoversA Simple Favor—down only 35% in its second weekend to land at $10.4 million—andThe Nun, which scared up another $10.2 million.
That’s it for the good news this weekend, folks, because the box office was downright dismal for a certain trio of buzzed-about festival films.Fahrenheit 11/9, the new documentary fromMichael Moore—notRoger Moore, as I wrote yesterday, apologies Mr. Bond—tanked from the beginning, landing well below an expected $5-6 million tally to take in $3.1 million. Audiences who happened to catch the doc seemed to love it—the film currently has an A CinemaScore—but that doesn’t soothe the fact that11/9brought in$20 millionless thanFahrenheit 9/11’s opening weekend in 2004.
Meanwhile, bothLife ItselfandAssassination Nationcouldn’t crack the top ten in their first weekend in theaters; heck,Assassination Nationjust barely cracked the $1 million mark. Director Sam Levinson’s bloody black comedy—starringOdessa Young,Suki Waterhouse,Hari Nef, andAbraas a crew of vengeful teenage girls—ended its debut weekend with $1.03 million.
AndLife Itself, poor, innocent Life Itself, which directorDan Fogelmandid no favors by striking back at across-the-board terrible reviews (not countingWeird Al Yankovic) with the ol' “for the fans of manipulative storytelling, not the critics of manipulative storytelling” routine, nabbed a not-fantastic $2.1 million.
Check out the weekend’s top 10 estimates below, and come back next week to see ifSmallfootcan leave prints at the box office.
The House with a Clock In Its Walls
$26,850,000
A Simple Favor
$10,400,000
$32,562,414
$10,250,000
$100,895,307
The Predator
$8,700,000
$40,435,122
Crazy Rich Asians
$6,515,000
$159,439,483
White Boy Rick
$5,000,000
$17,410,368
Peppermint
$3,720,000
$30,332,559
Fahrenheit 11/9
$3,101,000
$2,350,000
$140,522,919
$2,175,000
$23,115,344
