Anyway, The Hitman’s Bodyguard—which is sort of fun in spots—dominated this one of the weakest weekends of the year, making an estimated $21.6 million to land in the top spot. Meanwhile, Steven Soderbergh’s eccentric heist film Logan Lucky—which is pretty fun overall, give or take an English-accented Seth MacFarlane—ended up coming in at No. 3 with just a little over $8 million, which befits its underdog point of view, but sadly robs the world of a spin-off focused on Daniel Craig’s fussbucket career criminal Joe Bang. Meanwhile, last week’s No. 1, the horror prequel Annabelle: Creation, took the No. 2 spot with $15.5 million.
Otherwise, no movies did really well this weekend; even the limited release per-theater averages turned out middling to miserable. The wannabe indie crowd-pleaser Patti Cake$, which was bought by Fox Searchlight for a hefty $9.5 million, averaged an underwhelming $4,714 per screen, once again proving that the primary audience for these Sundance items is probably at Sundance and that the distributor that paid $12 million for Me And Earl And The Dying Girl and $17.5 million for The Birth Of A Nation should maybe consider setting a spending cap for future Sundance-hype-echo-chamber bidding frenzies. Unfortunately, the thoughtful Marjorie Prime didn’t exactly rake it in either, averaging an estimated $4,000 per screen at 6 locations.
As for the rest of the top 10, it was filled out by titles that ranged from the familiar to the already forgotten, including Dunkirk (No. 4, $6.7 million), The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature (No. 5, $5.1 million), The Emoji Movie (No. 6, $4.4 million), Spider-Man: Homecoming (No. 7, $4.3 million), and Girls Trip (No. 8, $3.8 million). The Dark Tower tumbled ignominiously in its third week to No. 9 with $3.7 million, while Wind River jumped 10 places to No. 10 in wide expansion, grossing a little over $3 million. That’s the closest this weekend has to a success story.
