Weekend Box Office: ‘Blade Runner 2049’s Replicates Original Film’s Financial Struggles
So here’s the good news: Blade Runner 2049 made more in its opening weekend than Blade Runner made in its entire theatrical run. Here’s the bad news: It still only made $31.5 million, well below the $50 million its studio hoped it would clear over the weekend.
Here’s the full box office chart:
| Film | Weekend | Per Screen | ||
| 1 | Blade Runner 2049 | $31,525,000 | $7,769 | $31,525,000 |
| 2 | The Mountain Between Us | $10,100,000 | $3,271 | $10,100,000 |
| 3 | It | $9,655,000 (-42%) | $2,678 | $304,933,478 |
| 4 | My Little Pony: The Movie | $8,800,000 | $3,481 | $8,800,000 |
| 5 | Kingsman: The Golden Circle | $8,100,000 (-52%) | $2,322 | $79,964,425 |
| 6 | American Made | $8,073,000 (-52%) | $2,663 | $30,444,960 |
| 7 | The LEGO Ninjago Movie | $6,750,000 (-42%) | $1,869 | $43,823,663 |
| 8 | Victoria and Abdul | $4,142,000 (+279%) | $5,658 | $5,958,394 |
| 9 | Flatliners | $3,800,000 | $1,489 | $12,329,602 |
| 10 | Battle of the Sexes | $2,400,000 (-30%) | $1,317 | $7,677,575 |
Blade Runner did have a solid per-screen average, and it got an A- CinemaScore from audiences, good signs that the film could have decent legs in theaters, and at least come close to recouping its estimated $150 million budget. Still, the film has the makings of a large-scale cult film. In other words: A faithful Blade Runner sequel.
In second place for the weekend was The Mountain Between Us, a survival thriller starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba. It also got an A- from CinemaScore audiences, and grossed an estimated $10.1 million over the weekend. In third place was It, which dropped just 42 percent and earned another $9.6 million for the weekend. It’s now over $300 million in total domestic grosses, an incredible number for a dark horror film. The folks who made The Dark Tower must be scratching their heads right now.
Fourth place went to My Little Pony: The Movie and its $8.8 million. Bronies were plased enough with the film to give it an A- CinemaScore. And in fifth place was Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Matthew Vaughn’s spy pastiche, which took in an estimated $8.1 million. Its domestic total to date is just below $80 million.
In limited release, the big winner of the weekend was The Florida Project, Sean Baker’s moving portrait of the impoverished denizens of a seedy Orlando motel. On just four nationwide screens, The Florida Project earned an impressive $153,342, good for a per-screen average of well over $38,000. Hopefully the film continues to perform well as it expands around the country; that’s something that every movie lover should see.
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