‘The Whale’ With Brendan Fraser Makes Its Own Waves On ‘Way Of Water’ Weekend – Box Office Special

The release of Darren Aronofsky’s A24 The whale fell far behind in its second weekend, earning $168.5k on the same six screens in NYC and LA, where it opened its first picture to the year’s biggest per-theater average — making it the distributor’s March release Everything everywhere at once.

This weekend’s PTA is $28.3K. The whale Estimated domestic sales through Sunday are $596,000.

With a $360,000 debut, the $60,000 per-screen average was also the second-biggest limited opening since 2020 and Helmer Aronofsky’s best opening since Black Swan in 2010.

Everything everywhere opened on four screens with a $50,000 PSA. It grossed over $100 million worldwide and The whale will not have this trajectory at the box office. But it’s a big comeback for his star. Fraser, the former action star of The Mummy Franchise stars as an obese, withdrawn English teacher struggling to reconnect with his estranged daughter. He is on every Oscar nomination list and has received nominations from Critics’ Choice Awards and Golden Globes this past week.

The film, which made headlines in Venice, has a 96% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, with multiple weekend sellouts. A24 will expand to a moderate nationwide hiatus with around 500 screens on December 21.

Searchlight photos rich in light, also in Week 2, made $235,000 from 436 locations for a $539 PTA and domestic sales of $471,821 through Sunday. it was no 10 at the local box office. From the distributor The menu, earned $1.7 million in Week 5 from 1,875 locations on domestic sales of $32,122,499 through Sunday. it was no 5.

Steven Spielberg’s The Fables from Universal was 7^e in week 6 at 955 locations for a weekend sales of $750,000 and a total of $7.66 million.

thoroughly I heard the bells became 9^e in week 9 at 426 locations for $309,000 for the weekend, totaling nearly $5 million.

Of Avatar, the way of water Free to Roam, the top ten is a little out of balance, as the gap between the top film ($134 million domestic) and the rest, especially the indie/special films, is quite large.

Most distributors of all shapes and sizes have chosen to stay away from it avatar. A new indie release this weekend, The Super 8 years by Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux, opened at the Film and Lincoln Center and DCTV Firehouse Cinema in NYC, numbers not yet available.

Other reports of holdups include the Sideshow/Janus Films front E.Owhich expanded to 33 screens in week 5 and earned an estimated $59,500 for a new cume of $238,650.

In week 8, utopias Holy Spider is up to $200,000 across 50 screens, including a $7,000 weekend.