Theater Counts: Three Billboards, Lady Bird Go Wide
November 30, 2017
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With no new wide releases, this weekend’s theater counts are a story of some modest shuffling as theater owners drop films that are performing poorly, and pick up (when they can) films that are filling seats. Overall, that means there’s not much change for most films, but Coco becomes the film in widest release, thanks to holding on to its Thanksgiving theaters, and Justice League losing 231 locations from its count.
The main gainers are Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which grows from 614 to 1,430 theaters; Lady Bird, which adds 403 theaters, and will play in 1,194 this weekend; and, surprisingly, Marshall, which will go from 111 theaters to 651.
The widest “new” release is Paramount’s 20th-anniversary re-release of Titanic, which will play in 87 theaters. The two most interesting new releases are The Disaster Artist, which opens in 19 theaters for A24, and The Shape of Water, which will play in just two theaters. One of those two will almost certainly top the theater averages this weekend, and my money is on The Shape of Water posting one of the best weekends of the year.
Theater Counts for Weekend of December 1-3
| Movie | Distributor | Theaters | Previous
Theaters | Change |
|---|
| Coco | Walt Disney | 3,987 | 3,987 | 0 |
| Justice League | Warner Bros. | 3,820 | 4,051 | -231 |
| Wonder | Lionsgate | 3,449 | 3,172 | +277 |
| Daddy's Home 2 | Paramount Pictures | 3,403 | 3,518 | -115 |
| Murder on the Orient Express | 20th Century Fox | 3,201 | 3,152 | +49 |
| Thor: Ragnarok | Walt Disney | 3,148 | 3,281 | -133 |
| The Star | Sony Pictures | 2,822 | 2,837 | -15 |
| A Bad Moms Christmas | STX Entertainment | 2,251 | 2,306 | -55 |
| Roman J. Israel, Esq. | Sony Pictures | 1,669 | 1,648 | +21 |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Fox Searchlight | 1,430 | 614 | +816 |
| Lady Bird | A24 | 1,194 | 791 | +403 |
| Marshall | Open Road | 651 | 111 | +540 |
| Blade Runner 2049 | Warner Bros. | 515 | 434 | +81 |
| Jigsaw | Lionsgate | 301 | 383 | -82 |
| It | Warner Bros. | 221 | 231 | -10 |
| Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween | Lionsgate | 212 | 248 | -36 |
| My Little Pony: The Movie | Lionsgate | 180 | 119 | +61 |
| Despicable Me 3 | Universal | 152 | 161 | -9 |
| Victoria & Abdul | Focus Features | 132 | 144 | -12 |
| The Foreigner | STX Entertainment | 130 | 104 | +26 |
| Geostorm | Warner Bros. | 125 | 165 | -40 |
| The Florida Project | A24 | 120 | 164 | -44 |
| Last Flag Flying | Lionsgate | 110 | 98 | +12 |
| Happy Death Day | Universal | 100 | 131 | -31 |
| American Made | Universal | 93 | 108 | -15 |
| Titanic | Paramount Pictures | 87 | | new |
| The Killing of a Sacred Deer | A24 | 41 | 59 | -18 |
| Same Kind of Different As Me | Pure Flix | 30 | 41 | -11 |
| Leap! | Weinstein Co. | 29 | 68 | -39 |
| A Question of Faith | Pure Flix | 21 | 37 | -16 |
| The Disaster Artist | A24 | 19 | | new |
| Wonderstruck | Roadside Attractions | 16 | 32 | -16 |
| Oro-(Spain) | Sony Pictures | 10 | | new |
| Wind River | Weinstein Co. | 8 | 15 | -7 |
| The Stray | Purdie-Distribution | 6 | 8 | -2 |
| Sweet Virginia | IFC Films | 5 | 8 | -3 |
| Darkest Hour | Focus Features | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| The New Radical | The Orchard | 2 | | new |
| The Shape of Water | Fox Searchlight | 2 | | new |
| The Tribes of Palos Verdes | IFC Films | 1 | | new |
Note: New theater counts are added as studios report throughout the day on Thursday
Estimates for Weekend of December 8
Bruce Nash
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