This is ResetEra's weekend box office thread. While the OP focuses on the popular weekend tallies, we typically discuss box office throughout the week as well when notable films are playing. New threads are posted each Sunday morning, between 8-10am PST.
DOMESTIC WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Weekend Box Office Archive and Appendix
'Hustlers' Shakes $32M+ Opening Record For STX & Jennifer Lopez Live-Action Pic; 'Goldfinch' Nosedives With $2M+
"You've got to hand it to STX, they cast this one up," complimented a rival major studio marketing boss on how the Burbank, CA mini-major assembled Hustlers. There's a star who appeals to every female moviegoer in this pic, and they bring their own cadre of fans: not just Jennifer Lopez, but Constance Wu and her Crazy Rich Asians and Fresh Off the Boat crowd, Cardi B's followers, and Lili Reinhart and her Riverdale gang.
Tracking services saw the Hustlers wave coming, and, boy, were they right, with the Lorene Scafaria film now seeing an awesome, over-indexed opening of $32.1M, the best domestic debut ever for five-year-old STX and for a Lopez live-action film. Friday is bigger than the $11M we spotted earlier, now at $13.1M (including Thursday $2.5M previews). For Wu, it's bigger than her Crazy Rich Asians 3-day of $26.5M, and not far from that pic's $35.2M five-day opening.
Yeah, yeah, New Line's It Chapter Two is still No. 1 with $40.5M, -55% in weekend 2. But that's a franchise, and we always knew that pic was guaranteed to have a two-week grip on the top spot. Hustlers is more exciting to talk about. The pic's success further underscores how low-to-mid-budget films, which were largely beaten down by Disney IP this summer, still work when they avoid a monster on the calendar, that streaming hasn't gobbled up every genre, and that moviegoers still leave the house to see original, intriguing fare.
DOMESTIC WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Weekend Box Office Archive and Appendix
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