Killers Of The Flower Moon can’t beat The Eras Tour at the weekend box office
The latest Martin Scorsese film has a fairly strong debut, but it still can't catch Taylor Swift
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Surprising probably no one, The Eras Tour movie has won the weekend at the domestic box office again, adding another $31 million to a total that’s now over $100 million after two weeks, but it’s actually down 66.6 percent from last week (which is not a great drop, though third place’s The Exorcist: Believer is probably wishing it were the one associated with such an evil number). Between those two movies is Killers Of The Flower Moon, which opened to $23 million and was directed by legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese—a man who will, unfortunately, soon be completely forgotten by history. (Apropos of nothing, there are no comic book movies in the top 10 this week.)
In fourth place is PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, which seems like it should have made more money by now (it made $4.4 this weekend and has $56 million after four weeks). And then, what’s this? What’s this? There’s something in the air, and it’s a re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas, which finished up the top five with $4.1 million.
The bottom five of the top 10 is all movies that have been on the charts for a while, none of which are doing anything particularly interesting: Saw X, The Creator, A Haunting In Venice, The Blind, and The Nun II. There are two fun things happening further down the charts, though, with Dicks: The Musical opening a little wider and jumping from 24th to 13th place (it made almost 300 percent more money than last week!) and with Barbie and Oppenheimer being reunited down in 15th and 16th (respectively) 14 weeks after they debuted together.
Here’s the full top 10, courtesy of Box Office Mojo.
- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
- Killers Of The Flower Moon
- The Exorcist Believer
- PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Saw X
- The Creator
- A Haunting In Venice
- The Blind
- The Nun II
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Brave to make a Scorsese will be forgotten joke when I genuinely doubt anyone will remember Sam Barsanti, who is no Nathan Rabin or Emily VanDerWerff.
Say what you will about Sam Barsanti (and you can say plenty), but he’s no Ray Greene. Even when the bar is on the floor, there’s still room for low blows.
I think Barsanti’s big role model is Sean O’Neal. He tries to copy his snark without realizing what made it so potent and funny. O’Neal was cutting and precise. Barsanti is just flailing around aimlessly.
Very true, a discount O’Neal.
Man, the A.V. Club used to have such a great roster of writers. The folks you mentioned, Donna Bowman, Katie Rife, Ignatiy “C+” Vishnevetsky, John Teti… these are just the first who come to mind. Generally I’m trying hard not to be a curmudgeon who calls everything new and modern shit. But the “new and modern” A.V. Club is shit.
I will say it until I die. Viahnevetsky has some of the best mean F/zero star reviews post Ebert. I would love to have him sign a print copy of his Contract to Kill review.
I miss Caroline Siede! She was the best
That’s the site in general – discount version of itself. Remember when writers had encyclopedic knowledge of movies and music and were passionate about the subjects?
You have to possess O’Neal’s seething contempt for all humankind to pull it off.
Barsanti is the Seltzer & Friedberg to Sean O’Neal’s Zucker, Abrahams & Zucker.
Sam Barsanti is the Officer Rod Farva of snark.
He is not worthy of a liter of cola.
No one will remember you either. All of us will be forgotten.
It would be hilarious if Scorsese started complaining about concert films as the new biggest ill for cinema.
Google “the Last Waltz” before you embarrass yourself again
…before you embarrass yourself againGo figure out what is wrong. Engage the services of a therapist if necessary.You don’t have to go through life in this much pain.
Get a sense of humour before you say something this idiotic again.
That’s why this is so stupid. A competition between two genres so unalike that making a competition of it is profoundly absurd. I’ll see Flower Moon but Swift is an elevator-music singing bot and….. ugh. What a world.
Because of the hypocrisy?
He made several, so it’s not likely.
*sigh*
He would make far more enemies if he criticized Taylor Swift than he ever did with superhero movies.
Yeah. Dissing Marvel movies is kicking a hornet’s nest, but going after Swifties is just signing a death warrant.
Maybe it’ll be how he decides to go out. Like that vampire in Twilight who says “finally” before getting ripped to shreds.
Yeah, because if there’s one director out there who absolutely hates concert films, it’s the director of (checks notes) The Last Waltz, Rolling Thunder Revue, Shine A Light, and the music video for Bad.
Well at least one writer acknowledges how much of a joke AV Club has become. Let’s see how long you guys ride this out before getting slide-showed out of existence. Thank god NathanRabinsHappyPlace exists.
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uh…what’d he just say to us?
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Capital-C Cinema triumphed at the box office for the second weekend in a row, fending off the pretenders.
only in america, the sickest, most evil country on earth! Good, kind-hearted people (not americans) prefer Scorsese!
Flower Moon beat Taylor at the international box office. Americans are confirmed taylorcells, meanwhile the rest of the world is fucking and sucking marty style
legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese—a man who will, unfortunately, soon be completely forgotten by history. (Apropos of nothing, there are no comic book movies in the top 10 this week.)Do I detect a little (good-natured, I hope) ribbing between AV Club writers?
do Bots have the capacity for such things?…
Rather than make a dumb “he’ll be forgotten” joke, maybe report that 23M is Scorsese’s second-best opening behind Shutter Island.
Because its not his 2nd best opening, its his 3rd. The Departed opened with $26 Million back when it came out.
I had conflicting info, sorry. But still, third best in a decades-long career is noteworthy.
It’s not that impressive if you understand inflation.
I’m still having a hard time believing I was able to see a new Scorsese/De Niro movie this week.
Saw The Nightmare Before Christmas re-release one thin theater wall over from the Taylor Swift movie. Was hoping for some Wizard of Oz / Pink Floyd style sync up between the two but unfortunately didn’t happen.
This doesn’t mean much. Eras is a family-friendly concert film that parents are bringing their kids to and that fans are seeing multiple times. Killers of the Flower Moon is a 3.5 hour adults-only drama about disturbing (but important) historical events that many people are waiting to be released for streaming.
tickets also cost twice as much for the swift movie
Wait, really? That’s ridiculous.
Most tickets are $19.89 so it can be anywhere between a few dollars more or triple the price of normal movies with the exception of movie theaters in NYC where it’s $3 more than a very expensive $25 ticket for other movies.
Scorcese fans tend to be older while Swift fans are mostly broke bitches living in their mom’s basement
Oh you’re a Swift fan?
Scorcese fans tend to be older while Swift fans are mostly broke bitches living in their mom’s basement
The ticket price is higher for the TS concert film. There might be a chance that the Scorcese film sold very similiar number of tickets. Maybe even more?
Extremely likely. If you assume that the increased prices account for 30% of the box office, then removing it gives a lower total the Flower Moon.
This weekend I watched the new Haunted Mansion movie with my son. He’d already seen it in the theater last summer, but he wanted to watch something scary before Halloween. Which invites that question of why they released a Haunted Mansion movie in the summer and then released (quickly counts) zero kid-friendly horror movies in October.
Dats right! Its all about the rich white girl. The Native tribes can fuck off
Woketards have spoken!