Equalizer 3 sets its stopwatch and takes out the weekend box office
Denzel Washington easily deposes Gran Turismo, with Barbie still just raking in cash
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After last week’s photo-finish, where Gran Turismo just barely managed to beat Barbie to take the top spot at the domestic box office, we’re back to a regular finish with a decisive victory: Naturally, that victory came at the hands of Robert Equalizer, Denzel Washington’s extremely capable killer (now retired) from Equalizer 3, with his third and final adventure debuting with $34.5 million. That was easily enough to beat Barbie, which made $10 million this weekend and has just over $600 million in the U.S. after seven weeks.
Blue Beetle is hanging on respectably, staying in third place for the second week in a row with $7 million and $56 million total, giving it a slight edge on Gran Turismo, which fell to fourth place with a hard 62 percent drop and only has $28 million after two weeks. Finishing the top five is Oppenheimer, which made $5 million this weekend and has just over $300 million in the U.S. after those same seven weeks that Barbie has had (remember when they opened on the same day? Barbenheimer? That was seven weeks ago).
The bottom five of the top 10 has one very notable success story, with Bottoms gradually expanding its rollout and jumping more than 500 percent from where it was last week. It only made $3 million this weekend, but that’s with a per-screen average that’s second only to Equalizer 3’s average, so it should keep doing well as it gets into more theaters. Other than that, there’s not a lot of interesting stuff happening. Talk To Me has been holding on well, we guess. There’s a nice summer horror hit (it has $44 million after six weeks, which isn’t a ton, but it seems to have pretty good legs).
The full top 10 from Box Office Mojo is below.
- The Equalizer 3
- Barbie
- Blue Beetle
- Gran Turismo
- Oppenheimer
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- Bottom
- Meg 2: The Trench
- Strays
- Talk To Me
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Gran Turismo turns out to be a One Weekend Wonder that shot its box office wad…I am so “shocked”.
It’s ridiculous that we’ve gotten three Equalizer movies and zero Regulator Guy movies.
Pitch it to hollywood!
Denzel’s one of the few movie stars left.
Him, Cruise, Pitt and Hanks.
Leo is bigger than all of them.
I’d throw DiCaprio in there.
Pitt still works? Keanu
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Wish he would lighten up with the film roles he takes on. He’s always so serious. He should do a comedy.
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Last weekend was not a photo finish. Not even close, as Barbie was way behind. WB overestimated it by a couple million, but I suppose you people can’t be bothered using facts.
It’s literally WB’s highest-grossing movie of all time. I think they’re fine.
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I’m not so sure how much facts actually matter, but if they do, the fact that Gran Turismo’s opening Friday is a cumulative total of all its preview showings (of which there were several in the weeks prior, not to mention the normal Thursday showings) plus its normal Friday receipts means that it almost certainly wasn’t even close to surpassing Barbie’s totals last weekend. But considering “winning” its opening weekend is the only good news about the financial returns on the movie —which has already fallen below $1m daily in its first week, while Barbie hasn’t even after six weeks—it can keep its achievement.
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I can see you’re waiting for the incel sequel, BarbieHater.
Worth noting that Barbie and Oppenheimer have both surpassed Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3’s box office gross. If I were Bob Iger, I’d sit down with the writers and actors and make a fucking deal.
Now I’m imagining the kind of movie Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan would make….What I keep coming up with is something like Thelma and Louise, only you can’t hear any of the dialogue.
The scary thing is……what if Bob thinks GOG3 is better written than 1 & 2?
Then the joke’s on him, because the writer left to work for Marvel’s Direct Competitor.It’s sorta’ funny. One of the reasons companies give for why they pay CEO’s so much (whether in cash or other benefits) is to “retain talent.”And yet ghouls like Iger don’t think writers are talent worth retaining.
I think that our problem.We think a talented writer is one who can create memorable, enjoyable cinematic experiences for moviegoers.Iger thinks a good writer is one who’ll shit out a 170-page script to a formula in three hours, for $15k a year – at least until they can develop an in-house AI that can do it in five minutes for whatever it costs to run a Dell Poweredge server.
Not only that, but some time this past week, Barbie became the highest grossing film worldwide. (It hit the domestic milestone the week or so before.)Last I heard, Iger had started to realize that Disney needs to get this strike ended because October is Disney’s 100th anniversary, and it’s going to look pretty bad if they are like, “Well, we MAY have some projects coming out in the future, but we keep having to delay things because we refuse to pay our artists. Happy anniversary to us?”
No love for the Turtles? You guys completely skipped over them in your mentions. You went straight from Oppenheimer to Bottoms.
They’re ninjas. You’re not supposed to notice them.
Blue Beetle, the movie that claims “Batman is a fascist” is an unmitigated box office disaster. Three weeks in, and it hasn’t even made its budget back. Remember Manuel Soto’s smarmy “My job’s done” Tweet? Bro, what’s done is your career! 😂
“Equalizer 3 sets its stopwatch and takes out the weekend box office…”But is it better than whatever the fuck that mess that the second movie was?
Yes, it’s one better.
We saw Blue Beetle yesterday. It was aggressively mediocre, but I think if you’ve never seen a superhero movie then it would probably be pretty entertaining. I suppose Latin audiences deserve mediocre superhero movies too.
I agree with every word of this. Didn’t hate it, the kids seemed happy, but it was like the combined spiderman and iron man and fused it to some Latin American family values but no more or less.
“Whether your name’s Roger or Rodrigo, Olivia or…um, Olivia, none of you should be denied a vague feeling of ‘Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh’ after leaving the cinema!”
We’re still waiting on an El Chapulín Colorado cinematic universe.
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I saw Gran Turismo with my 10 year old daughter and liked it much better than I expected to. The only criticism I could honestly throw at it, is they did that “why is he pressing a clutch in a car that has a DCT and paddles????” But the story and the acting was solid.
Movie gearboxes exist in a magical realm, where upshifting at speed redlines the engine and gives you a burst of quickness allowing you to pass the person in front, but accelerating from a stop requires slamming the stick down. I guess reality just isn’t dramatic enough.
Also, movie gearboxes can have upwards of 700 gears. Going flat out in 6th? Need to overtake fifteen cars? Just upshift up to 7th, then 8th, then 9th…on and on until you’re sitting in first place in 21st gear, and then pull away from the pack in 22nd.
“Naturally, that victory came at the hands of Robert Equalizer, Denzel Washington’s extremely capable killer (now retired) from Equalizer 3,…”wait, the character’s name in the franchise is literally… “Robert Equalizer”? holy shit that’s fantastic
It’s not; I think that was intended as a joke. The character’s name is Robert McCall.
That was my main takeaway from the article too. “Really? That’s his name?”
What’s going on with Kinja now? It’s showing 169 comments on this article when there are nowhere near, even looking at the greys.
One of the trolls lost it and posted the same thing 150 times. I don’t know if that triggered an automated moderator function or if someone on staff actually took the time to remove them. I have seen at least some small uptick in the amount of moderation around here lately, so it’s possible.
Ah okay thank you for the explanation, that’s less insidious than my original thought that Herb was inflating comments to show higher engagement.
why does it say there’s a 172 comments at the top, but when you come to the bottom there’s only 24? i know there’s usually a bit of a discrepancy but this feels like a lot.
TMNT hanging in there…
We saw Blue Beetle over the weekend. Thought it was a solid superhero film, and
pretty entertaining if you’re into the genre and aren’t expecting anything
mindblowing. Stand alone film, which was
refreshing, with a lot of heart and great cast. The family and legacy hero themes paired with
its smaller stakes elevates this film beyond many of the
mediocre spectacle-driven superhero films we’ve gotten over the past
few years.