Friday’s box office laid out a path to glory for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Steaming past $300 mil domestically, “WF” was actually up 1% over last Friday. Nature abhors a vacuum and that’s what we’ve got since Hollywood is offering nothing for counter programming.
The only movie that would fit that bill is the George Clooney-Julia Roberts romcom, “Ticket to Paradise.” An unlikely hit, the travelogue is up around $65 million despite being available on video on demand. Not bad!
But everything else, all the small movies that would be part of awards talk, have failed. Universal has had a bad time with “Tar,” ” She Said,” and “Armageddon Time” — the latter made just a million bucks and is already out of circulation. Disney’s “Strange World” is doing no business, and the cannibal movie, “Bones and All,” is probably causing some executives to be chewed out.
Two successes, though: “The Fabelmans” went up to 600 theaters and hit its numbers. And “The Menu” from Searchlight is a hit.
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