Naomie Harris, Andre Holland, Janelle Monae, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome and Mahershala Ali also star. Moonlight traces the life of a young black gay man struggling with his sexuality from his troubled childhood growing up in a tough Miami neighborhood to maturity. The drama shone bright, grossing $414,740 from four theaters in Los Angeles and New York for A24 to score the best location average ($103,685) since 2015’s The Revenant ($118,640). The big headline at the specialty box office was Barry Jenkins’ awards contender Moonlight. Produced by Laurie MacDonald and Walter Parkes, the comedy was directed by Greg Mottola and stars Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot.
Keeping Up With the Joneses, which placed No. The $40 million comedy bombed with $5.6 million from 3,022 theaters, the tenth-worst debut ever for a title going out in more than 3,000 theaters, according to Box Office Mojo. Returns were grim for the weekend’s fourth new nationwide offering, Fox 2000’s Keeping Up With the Joneses. Directed by Mike Flanagan, the film is set in 1967 in Los Angeles where a widowed mother and family fake seances as part of a scam. Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes and Hasbro, maker of the classic board game Ouija, are also partners on the film. It came in well behind the $19.9 million debut of the first Ouija in 2014, but hopes to scare up strong business through Halloween since there are no other horror movies opening. 3 with $14.1 million from 3,167 theaters after costing less than $9 million to make. The supernatural horror prequel placed No. Like the Madea pic, Universal and Blumhouse Productions’ Ouija: Origin of Evil also decided to open ahead of Halloween weekend. In North America, Never Go Back had to battle generally poor reviews (it earned a B+ CinemaScore from audiences), as well as holdover The Accountant, since both films are playing to older males. 'Jack Reacher 2': Why Paramount and Tom Cruise Bet on a Risky Sequel franchise making noise in the Middle Kingdom was Jason Statham’s Mechanic: Resurrection with a $24 million launch.) It came in ahead of the original in a number of countries - the main exception being China, where it debuted to $5.6 million, an 11 percent dip. Never Go Back topped the weekend foreign chart with $31 million from 40 markets this weekend for a global bow of $54 million, up from $42 million for the first pic. Many were surprised when a sequel was greenlighted, but Paramount believed there was plenty of growth opportunity internationally, where Cruise remains a far bigger star. 21-23 weekend in 2012 and ultimately earned $218.3 million worldwide, much of it overseas. The first Jack Reacher opened to $15 million over the Dec. Directed by Edward Zwick, the $60 million film also stars Cobie Smulders and Aldis Hodge.
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It currently holds a 96 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.Īmong holdovers, Bleecker Street’s “Colette” passed the $1 million mark in its third weekend, as it expanded to 107 screens and earned $458,831 for a total of $1.23 million. The film’s cast also includes Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Issa Rae, Common and Anthony Mackie. Directed by George Tillman Jr., the film stars Amandla Stenberg as a black prep school student who watches her best friend get killed by a white police officer and now must find her voice amidst pressure from both her community and the mostly white school she goes to. “The Hate U Give” opened on 36 screens in select cities this weekend, making $500,000 for a slightly higher per screen average of $13,889. That pushes the film’s 10-day total to $955,000, with another expansion for the tale of the daredevil Yosemite climber coming next weekend. “Free Solo,” which set a new per screen average for docs last week, expanded to 41 screens and has added $540,000 for a per screen average of $13,136. Hot off setting a new documentary record, National Geographic’s “Free Solo” continues its strong run at the indie box office, while 20th Century Fox sends in their adaptation of Angie Thomas’ “The Hate U Give” for a limited run in advance of its Oct.