Weekend Forecast for October 13-15, 2017
By Reagen Sulewski
October 13, 2017
Directed by Reginald Hudlin, who's been stuck as a journeyman-TV director since a string of bombs in the late '90s and early '00s, and co-starring Josh Gad, Dan Stevens, James Cromwell and Jussie Smolett, it's a film with some Oscar ambitions, though it will take some work to get there. It's opening in just 821 venues, but it should be able to get to around $7 million this weekend.
Attempting to jump on the Wonder Woman bandwagon is Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, the story of the real life creator of the titular comic heroine. Started in the '40s as a way to Trojan Horse feminist thinking into the mainstream when such ideas were thought dangerous, the character was based in part on the professor's (played by Luke Evans) relationship with his wife (Rebecca Hall) and her mistress (Bella Heathcote) and their interest in BDSM, which, yeah, makes a whole bunch of sense when you think about it.
Presently, oddly, as a bit of a thriller in its ads, it's a peek into a different era and a somewhat salacious relationship (if mostly tame by today's standards). It's a weird combination of themes – Comic books! History! Sex! Feminism! Psychology! Also Sex! - that it may serve to divide up and confuse any potential audiences. Then again, the fact that it exists at all is a bit of a win. Debuting at about 1,200 venues, it should come in with about $5 million.
Turns out that sequels to 35-year-old films aren't always a slam dunk. Blade Runner 2049 had what many considered a big disappointment with a $32 million weekend. Despite the return of Harrison Ford (a great big FU to Ridley Scott) and the addition of Ryan Gosling, the followup to the revered sci-fi classic found out that it maybe wasn't that revered at all. I don't anticipate much in the way of legs for this either, given that those who were fans were *really* fans. Give it about $17 million for its second weekend.
After this we drop off quite a bit to The Mountain Between Us, the adventure/romance starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, which started off at $10 million. Relatively unique in the marketplace right now, it could be a bit of a slow burn, and earn about $7 million this frame. Stephen King's It slowly heads for the exits after crossing $300 million and should grab about $6 million this weekend, while perhaps its polar opposite film (though perhaps no less upsetting) My Little Pony: The Movie slides in with about $5 million.
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Forecast: Weekend of October 13-15, 2017
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Rank |
Film |
Number of
Sites |
Changes in Sites
from Last |
Estimated
Gross ($) |
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1
|
Happy Death Day
|
3,149
|
New
|
19.4
|
|
2
|
Blade Runner 2049
|
4,058
|
0
|
17.2
|
|
3
|
The Foreigner
|
2,515
|
New
|
10.3
|
|
4
|
Marshall
|
821
|
New
|
7.0
|
|
5
|
The Mountain Between Us
|
3,259
|
+171
|
7.0
|
|
6
|
It
|
3,176
|
-429
|
5.9
|
|
7
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My Little Pony: The Movie
|
2,528
|
0
|
5.3
|
|
8
|
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
|
1,229
|
New
|
4.8
|
|
9
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle
|
2,982
|
-206
|
4.1
|
|
10
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American Made
|
3,090
|
+59
|
4.0
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