‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’, ‘Women Talking’ Among Best Picture Oscar Nominees at Weekend Box Office

While the studios took the opportunity to expand their Oscar-nominated best picture lineup over the weekend, it’s truly a post-apocalyptic, er, post-pandemic market when it comes to harvesting a massive box office from this year’s crop . And the irony is that there is only one streaming title in the top 10 best movies, and that is Netflix No news from the western frontOTT services never disclose gross amounts.

Since most of these titles are available at home, either via streaming or PVOD, don’t expect the typical post-nominal spike in box office totals. Between last Tuesday’s nominations and Oscar night, March 12, so in 2020, 1917 up 210% between nominations and Oscar night; the ultimate Best Picture winner, parasitejump 40%, little woman was +37%, and Yoyo rabbit also had the same revival.

Those times are over, at least this year Avatar: the way of water and The United Artists Edition women talk He is the only Best Picture nominee to ever fall in a theatrical-only window.

However, there was a box office anomaly with the re-release of A24’s 11 Oscar-nominated Everything, everywhere, all at once in 1,400 theaters. The film, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collected surprisingly a lot $1.014 million — and it’s free with the photo to display in Showtime subscribers’ homes. Although the film didn’t have access to Imax or PLFs, I’m told the wave here comes from the picture’s loyal fans. A24’s highest-grossing film of all time now reaches $71 million at the domestic box office. The film, which premiered on March 25, 2022, has been in theaters for 28 weeks.

The 4x nominee Avatar: the way of water Of all, this year’s best picture will clearly make the best of Oscar night as it remains in its cinema window. But, Oscar nominations or no Oscar nominations, this box office never lost momentum this winter. By the time the trophies are handed out, the James Cameron sequel is estimated to have grossed $675 million, up 12% from Tuesday’s Oscars. The film lost 22% in its seventh #1 weekend with a three-day run $15.7 million. The pic will cede its Dolby screens and PLF to Universal’s M. Night Shyamalan title Knock on the hut next weekend, expected to reach #1 with more than $17 million.

UARs benefited from a purely theatrical play women talk, who harvested $1.013 million (+167%) in 707 theaters (+654) in its sixth weekend for $2.39 million in ongoing receipts. The distribution strategy for the Sarah Polley-directed drama about an isolated group of religious women grappling with their disturbing past is one from awards season’s old script: play right into a film’s Oscar heat and earn it.

The rest of this year’s best picture made gains from weekend to weekend as their studios ramped up theatrical releases. However, most of these films are already available in theaters and at home, read:

—The Fables (Amblin/Uni), 1,962 cinemas (+1,015), 3 days $760,000, +72%, $16 million total over Weekend 12; It can already be viewed on PVOD.

—Banshees by Inisherin (Searchlight), 1,205 (+1,050 theaters) 3 days $353,000 (+384%), earning $9.8 million on its 15th weekend. The nine-time Oscar-nominated title can be viewed on HBO Max.

—tar (Focus Features), 537 theaters (+431), 3 days $173,000 (+138%), which earned $6.1 million over the ’17 weekend. The six-time nominated film, directed by Todd Field, is about Peacock.

—elvis (Warner Bros) in 841 theaters (+777) made an estimate $152,000 (+950%) on its 32nd weekend. Directed by Baz Luhrmann, the eight-time Oscar-nominated film is available to watch on HBO Max and has a running gross of $151.1 million in the US/Canada.

Despite the big percentage jumps here, note that gross profit here is far from the weekend after Oscar Nom in January 2020. Granted, it was the MLK weekend of January 17-19, but get a lot of the big money that later in their theatrical release created from photographs: little woman ($6.3M on weekend 4, -18%), parasite ($1.7M on weekend 15, +79%), Yoyo rabbit ($1.48M, +630% over Weekend 14), Ford Vs. Ferrari ($1.07 million, +40% over Weekend 10).

by Paramount Top Gun: Maverickwhich can be viewed on Paramount+, had no official theatrical re-release after Oscar nominations. NEON reported no gross profit this past weekend triangle of sorrow, which can be viewed on PVOD and digital.