Box Office Round Up - 3-19-2018

For the fifth consecutive week Black Panther dominated the box office. Coming in number one with a $27 million take this weekend. The film is the third film in history to be number one over five straight weeks; Avatar and The Sixth Sense are the other two. Panther is the seventh film to gross over $600 million at the domestic box office and is $18 million shy of toppling The Avengers from the highest grossing superhero film of all time – a feat it will definitely hit by next weekend.
 
Coming in second place with $24 million is Tomb Raider. The Alicia Vikander starring film performed as predicted – putting it as the sixth highest grossing video game film. I’m sure the folks at UTA are happy as they represent director Roar Uthaug and Vikander. WME reps co-star Dominic West, and ICM reps Walton Goggins.
 
The big surprise this weekend was the faith-based film I Can Only Imagine which came in third place with $17 million. This is a big haul for the film and Zero Gravity Management and Prism Management who rep the directors Andrew and Jon Erwin (who also co-wrote) are happy with this result.  This tied with Ava Duvernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time which is listed in fourth place with $17 million. In fifth place with $12 million is the week’s other wide release – the YA adaptation Love, Simon. WME should be happy with this as they represent director Greg Berlanti and co-star Katherine Langford. While UTA reps Simon Himself – Nick Robinson.
 
Outside of the top five – Game Night got knocked down to sixth place, and Peter Rabbit took seventh. The horror sequel The Strangers: Pray at Night dropped from third place all the way to eigth, while Red Sparrow and Death Wish took ninth and tenth respectively.
 
Next Week: Pacific Rim: Uprising arrives to smash some cities, gnomes go detecting in Sherlock Gnomes, and the teen romantic tragedy Midnight Sun arrives. Tracking is indicating that Pacific Rim: Uprising will take the number one spot and dethrone Black Panther, but I remain skeptical about that, considering the first Pacific Rim couldn’t crack number one when it was released in 2013. But, we’ll find out next week!
 

1.  Black Panther ($27 MM)
Dir: Ryan Coogler (WME)
Writers: Ryan Coogler (WME) and Joe Robert Cole (CAA|Circle of Confusion)  
 
Cast: Chadwick Boseman (Greene and Associates|Management 360)
         Michael B. Jordan (WME)
         Lupita Nyong’o (CAA)
 

2. Tomb Raider ($24 MM)
Dir: Roar Uthaug (UTA)
Writers: Geneva Robertson-Dworet (WME|Management 360), Alastair Siddons (Troika), Evan Daugherty (Good Fear Film+Management)
 
Cast: Alicia Vikander (UTA|Tavistock Wood Management – UK)
         Dominic West (WME|Tavistock Wood Management – UK)
         Walton Goggins (ICM|Darris Hatch Management)
 

3. I Can Only Imagine ($17 MM)
Dirs: Andrew Erwin and Jon Erwin (Prism Creative Management|Zero Gravity Management)
Writers: Alex Cramer (Circle of Confusion), Jon Erwin (Prism Creative Management|Zero Gravity Management), Brent McCorkle (Unrepped)
 
Cast: Dennis Quaid (WME)
         Madeline Carroll (Innovative Artists|Curtis Talent Management)
         Cloris Leachman (Innovative Artists|Juliet Green Management)
 

4.  A Wrinkle in Time ($17 MM)
Dir: Ava DuVernay (CAA)
Writers: Jennifer Lee (CAA) and Jeff Stockwell (UTA)
 
Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw (CAA|Curtis Brown Group – UK|Anonymous Content)
         Chris Pine (CAA|John Carrabino Management)
         Storm Reid (CAA|Management 360)
 

5. Love, Simon ($12 MM)
Dir: Greg Berlanti (WME)
Writer: Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker (CAA|Management 360)
 
Cast: Nick Robinson (UTA|Management 360)
         Katherine Langford (WME|Independent Talent Management Co. -- AU)
         Jennifer Garner (CAA|Management 360)