Theater Averages: Incredibles Tops Another Chart

June 20, 2018

Incredibles 2

The overall number one film, Incredibles 2, earned top spot on the theater average chart with an impressive average of $41,426. Only two other wide releases have started with bigger averages: Infinity War and Black Panther. The only new limited release in the $10,000 club was Eating Animals, which earned an average of $17,262. Finally, Won’t You Be My Neighbor earned an average of $10,445 in nearly 100 theaters, earning over $1 million in the process. This bodes well for its future.

There were not a lot of other new limited releases and only one of them didn’t struggle. That exception was Race 3, which earned an average of $5,385 in just over 300 screens. Gotti only managed an average of $3,419 in just over 500 theaters. This isn’t good, but we’ve seen many films that open in this many theaters completely bomb. Gabriel and the Mountain struggled with an average of $2,482 in two theaters. Straight Into a Storm just missed the Mendoza Line with $1,964 in one theater. Intersection only managed an average of $970 in two theaters, but it was playing on Video on Demand.

This past week also saw milestones reached for a couple of Per Theater Chart alumni:

  • Gotti opened with more than $1 million, so obviously it reached the $1 million milestone in the process. However, while it will have no trouble getting to $2 million, its theater average might drop enough this weekend that it won’t stick around in theaters long enough to get past $3 million.
  • Race 3 also opened with $3 million this weekend, but while it has a better theater average than the above film, it will also likely have really short legs. After all, Bollywood films rarely last more than a few weeks in theaters.
  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor also earned $1 million over the weekend, in its second weekend of release. Unlike the two films above, its theater average is high enough to assume a lengthy stay in theaters.
  • The Rider got to $2 million before the weekend, but that’s as far as it will go.
  • First Reformed reached $2 million before the weekend and it should get to $3 million before it is done. However, it will also start losing theaters, so that might be as far as it goes.
  • RBG became one of the rare documentaries to reach $10 million at the box office. It is even rarer for a non-nature documentary to accomplish this feat.
Weekend Box Office Results

Filed under: Theater Averages, Avengers: Infinity War, Incredibles 2, Gotti, The Rider, First Reformed, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, RBG, Eating Animals, Gabriel e a Montanha, Straight Into a Storm, Race 3, Intersection