Don’t Worry Darling, you’re at the top of the weekend box office
Florence Pugh and Harry Styles' behind-the-scenes drama generator/movie made $19 million
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After an unclear amount of on-set drama (somewhere between “none” and “all”) and about 15,000 daily news stories across the entertainment news industry (it’s not just us), Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling finally opened in U.S. theaters this weekend. And best of all, the drama (or convincing illusion of drama) was all worth it: The movie opened at number one on the domestic box office charts!
It wasn’t necessarily a mind-blowing and impressive number one, but it did make $19 million in its debut—well ahead of last week’s top movie, The Woman King, which fell to $11 million in its second week. After that is the rereleased version of Avatar, which took the top spot at the international box office but only made $10 million in the U.S. this weekend. (Though it made that on 2,000 or so fewer screens that Darling had, giving it a much better per-screen average.) Fourth went to Barbarian, the horror movie that you must not know anything about (or so we’ve been told by people who refuse to tell us more), with $4.8 million and a total of $28 million after three weeks. Fifth went to Pearl, a horror movie you are allowed to know about, which made $1.9 million and has $6 million after two weeks.
The final five movies all made a similar amount of money, in descending order (that’s how the list works): See How They Run, Bullet Train, DC League Of Super-Pets, Top Gun: Maverick (for its EIGHTEENTH GODDAMN WEEK), and Minions: The Rise Of Gru (for its thirteenth goddamn week).
The full top 10 is repeated below in list form, courtesy of Box Office Mojo.
- Don’t Worry Darling
- The Woman King
- Avatar
- Barbarian
- Pearl
- See How They Run
- Bullet Train
- DC League Of Super-Pets
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Minions: The Rise Of Gru
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James Cameron: Check it out, everyone! Avatar is #2 at the box office! (under breath, quickly) …according to a poorly formatted list on the AV Club.
How does this keep happening?Interestingly, when I copy and paste the list the numbers appear correctly. Or maybe that’s not interesting. I don’t know.Don’t Worry DarlingThe Woman KingAvatarBarbarianPearlSee How They RunBullet TrainDC League Of Super-PetsTop Gun: MaverickMinions: The Rise Of Gru
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1. The Woman King ?
Profit
3. !
And here I thought the AVC had figured out a way to stop the ad from breaking the numbering in their top 10 9 list.
There are going to be about 10 thousand ‘Why we were wrong about Don’t Worry Darling’ thinkpieces in about 2 years (as there should be, it rocks). I’m glad it did pretty well!
I will see this eventually and might like it but I just want to say that I watched The Simpsons premiere tonight and enjoyed it. It was clever, topical and subversive if not outrageously hilarious. After 30+ years and hundreds of episodes, an okay Simpsons is still better than 90% of the shit thrown at us consumers of mass entertainment.Bite it Simpsons contrarians. We will all miss it when it’s gone.
Hello in there, dudebra. Tell me, what color is the sky in your world?
You poor, sad man.
I haven’t watched the Simpsons in 20 years. I won’t care either way when it’s gone.
I hear Lisa and Marge got into a fight on set over Marge’s affair with Snake.
The Fargo style double episode last season ( I think? Maybe the season before?) was great , it still has good episodes even now.
Yes!
Is “The Simpsons isn’t as good as it used to be” really the ‘contrarian’ viewpoint these days? Seems like it’s been the consensus for at least fifteen-twenty years.
…yet it’s still on prime time national television and the longest running scripted prime time show ever in the US.
Condescending tone and gifs aside, you didn’t actually answer my question. The fact that it’s still successful enough to keep getting recommissioned is separate from whether or not the consensus viewpoint on the show is that it’s not as good as it once was. It just means that enough people are still watching despite any decline in quality to make it profitable enough to justify recommissioning it. To determine whether people who say that the show has declined over the years are the contrarians, like you claim, you’d be better off looking at critical and audience response to recent episodes in order to determine whether or not a perceived decline in quality is a frequent point of criticism, and comparing it with critical and audience reception to older episodes in order to determine if past responses were more consistently positive. But then, I suspect we both know what the results would be if you did that, which is why you deflected.
Condescending? Condescending is belittling a still immensely popular show that is a true classic. Even if it is past its peak and on its worst day it is still better than about 90% of the stuff out there as I said in my original comment. I really don’t care what self appointed internet experts think. That’s the point of this rant.
If you want to criticize a show that has far outlived any usefulness, try Bob’s Burgers. That show is not good.
You poor, sad person.
Oh good, Olivia Wilde definitely needed another reason to act smug and insufferable .
Just wait until next week when the box office drops of north of 80%
But of course she’s smug. She is the star of such films as “Turistas” and “Cowboys and Aliens”, and you are not, plebe.
Let’s not forget her Oscar worthy performances in Drinking Buddies and Better Living Through Chemistry.
I’m the star of several Toyota dealership commercials in the Denver area and I manage to keep my head on straight.
At first I was thinking, wow, I’m surprised this movie made any money at all. But then I thought, Harry Styles is in it! It’d be like if Justin Bieber had been in a movie in 2010 or whenever he was really big! HIS FANS ARE DRIVING THE TICKET SALES! Finally I was like, why am I putting this much thought into a movie I’ll never see?So what I’m basically saying is, if the box office for this movie drops off a cliff after this weekend, I still won’t care.
No, no, no, no, no, no, APKW. Did you not get the press release and the cash transfer from Wilde’s press team? This movie is doing well because a unique, incisive and relevant film that was excellently written and directed and acted in by visionary auteur Olivia Wilde, truly the heir to…IDK, like Goddard and shit (he died recently, so we get more social media traction that way.)
It is also a very good movie. The story isn’t that great/original, but Pugh and Pine acting is spectacular, and so is Wilde’s direction.
Please explain what is spectacular about Wilde’s direction.
Pugh is almost certainly a draw by now, as well.
Agreed. I came in with very low expectations, but I was pleasantly surprised. I think that some of the negatitive reviews stem from the fact that the movie is very successful in cultivating a sense of unease and discomfort both on-screen and for the audience.
My viewing experience was augmented by the fact that theater management came in twice and pulled audience members from the crowd who did not return at any point. It was a perfect wayto amp up the creepiness.
There was a pretty big drop-off from Friday to Saturday, and again from Saturday to Sunday. Doesn’t say anything about the quality of the film, which I haven’t seen and honestly looks like something I might at least kind of like, but it does look like a fanbase-driven thing.
Like all those teenagers who went to see A Hard Day’s Night because they’re Dick Lester fans?
Ultimately, it did about as good (give or take a mil) as everybody at the studio predicted, so not sure if any of the drama ended up having any impact at all.
The last time we had a major pop star’s film debut was probably Lady Gaga in A Star is Born, which opened at north of $42 million and went on to gross over $436 million. Obviously that was a very different movie and came out pre-pandemic – House of Gucci opened at $22 million last fall and went on to gross $154 million, which is probably a better comparison – so never underestimate the power of fans driving ticket sales.That being said I don’t think Styles walks away with any Oscar nominations for this one.
It wasn’t necessarily a mind-blowing and impressive number one, but it did make $19 million in its debut
I’m probably misremembering, but didn’t another movie recently debut at ~$19m, and it was praised here as some sort of amazing opening, worthy of its own full write-up?
Yes, just last week…
Two different films with different marketing. The Woman King was barely marketed at all, and for it to come in at $19 million with no major star power was an exceptional feat. DWD was one of the most heavily hyped, if not the most heavily hyped film of the year. $19 million is a massive disappointment for this film. Next week its box office will be at least 50% less of that. When all is said and done the film won’t make $50 million, which would put this film down as a major loss for the studio.
That movie didn’t have months of drama surrounding it at least getting it’s name out there.
Congrats, you guys did it!
$19 million for a film this heavily hyped is a massive disappointment.
Hey Herbs!!You guys like money , I know ..look I would consider actually paying a sub for a premium version of the sites here if it would let me filter out specific subjects ..for example , if I can get through the rest of my life without hearing about this turd of a movie , I’d die happy.
I sure as hell would not. A much easier and free way to not hear about it is to not click on articles about it.
Don’t Worry Darling: that’s a flick that’ll disappear without a trace in a couple of weeks.
Congratulate yourselves, AV Club.This is your triumph.
The international market is going to be what Disney uses to justify Avatar’s continued existence…isn’t it.
$19 million with that build-up?
That don’t impressa me much…