Theater Counts: Nut Job 2 to Open in Over 4,000 Theaters
August 10, 2017
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature will open in an impressive 4,003 theaters list weekend, according to Open Road. That’s comfortably the widest opening ever for the studio, ahead of the first film in the franchise’s 3,427 theater start in 2014. Coincidentally, AMC sold its 50% stake in Open Road to Tang Media earlier this week. Its new owner will presumably be pleased with the success in getting the film into theaters, although it isn’t generally expected to top the chart.
That honor is expected to fall to Annabelle: Creation, which is starting out in a very solid 3,502. Both super-wide openers are helped by having little competition for theater space, thanks to the failures of some recent high-profile releases.
The Glass Castle will open in a more targeted 1,461 theaters for Lionsgate.
We don’t have an official theater count estimate for Logan Lucky, but The Hitman’s Bodyguard is rolling out in an estimated 3,000 venues, which should give it a shot at box office glory.
Here are all theater counts, as announced by distributors on Thursday.
Theater Counts for Weekend of August 11-13
Movie | Distributor | Theaters | Previous Theaters | Change |
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature | Open Road | 4,003 | | new |
Dunkirk | Warner Bros. | 3,762 | 4,014 | -252 |
Annabelle: Creation | Warner Bros. | 3,502 | | new |
The Dark Tower | Sony Pictures | 3,451 | 3,451 | 0 |
The Emoji Movie | Sony Pictures | 3,219 | 4,075 | -856 |
Detroit | Annapurna Pictures | 3,007 | 3,007 | 0 |
Spider-Man: Homecoming | Sony Pictures | 2,607 | 3,116 | -509 |
Kidnap | Aviron | 2,418 | 2,378 | +40 |
Girls Trip | Universal | 2,303 | 2,582 | -279 |
War for the Planet of the Apes | 20th Century Fox | 2,098 | 2,704 | -606 |
Atomic Blonde | Focus Features | 2,088 | 3,326 | -1,238 |
Despicable Me 3 | Universal | 2,007 | 2,445 | -438 |
The Glass Castle | Lionsgate | 1,461 | | new |
Wonder Woman | Warner Bros. | 961 | 1,307 | -346 |
Baby Driver | Sony Pictures | 865 | 1,424 | -559 |
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | STX Entertainment | 785 | 1,795 | -1,010 |
The Big Sick | Lionsgate | 709 | 1,005 | -296 |
An Inconvenient Sequel | Paramount Pictures | 556 | 180 | +376 |
Cars 3 | Walt Disney | 308 | 477 | -169 |
Transformers: The Last Knight | Paramount Pictures | 255 | 322 | -67 |
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | Walt Disney | 210 | 252 | -42 |
Step | Fox Searchlight | 185 | 29 | +156 |
47 Meters Down | Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures | 170 | 411 | -241 |
The House | Warner Bros. | 148 | 124 | +24 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | Walt Disney | 125 | 167 | -42 |
Lady Macbeth | Roadside Attractions | 119 | 131 | -12 |
Wish Upon | Broad Green Pictures | 112 | 345 | -233 |
The Mummy | Universal | 102 | 146 | -44 |
A Ghost Story | A24 | 57 | 208 | -151 |
Menashe | A24 | 47 | 10 | +37 |
Wind River | Weinstein Co. | 45 | 4 | +41 |
Beatriz at Dinner | Roadside Attractions | 40 | 43 | -3 |
The Only Living Boy in New York | Roadside Attractions | 15 | 3 | +12 |
City of Ghosts | IFC Films | 11 | | new |
It Comes at Night | A24 | 5 | 15 | -10 |
The Exception | A24 | 4 | 5 | -1 |
Good Time | A24 | 4 | | new |
Ingrid Goes West | Neon | 3 | | new |
The Trip to Spain | IFC Films | 3 | | new |
The Farthest | Abramorama | 2 | | new |
Note: New theater counts are added as studios report throughout the day on Thursday
Estimates for Weekend of August 18
Bruce Nash
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