Theater counts: The gap narrows, but Spider-Man preserves its place as widest release

January 20, 2022

After topping Spider-Man: No Way Home at the weekend box office, Scream has spent the week trading spots with the webbed superhero, with one outperforming the other one day, only to fall into second place the next. Spider-Man enters its sixth week by showing in 3,705 theaters while Scream gains two locations, bringing this week’s count to 3,666 in its sophomore run. Both films will most likely once again spar to see who takes the top prize at the box office, although two new wide releases will be trying to offer some competition.

Adventure-fantasy film The King’s Daughter, based on a 1997 novel, stars Pierce Brosnan as King Louis XIV, and is set to open in 2,170 locations. The movie, which was originally filmed in 2014, has had a tortuous route into theaters. Paramount originally had the distribution rights, and planned for an April, 2015 release. After that release was canceled, it stayed on a shelf for several years before being acquired by Arclight Films in June, 2020, and is finally being released by Gravitas Ventures. Starring alongside Brosnan is Kaya Scodelario and Julie Andrews, the latter providing narration for the film.

Also arriving in wide release this week is the 1850’s western drama, Redeeming Love. The film, which is also based on a best-selling novel, is the contemporary retelling of the biblical book of Hosea set against the romantic backdrop of the California Gold Rush. Redeeming Love arrives in 1,903 theaters.

With no wide releases scheduled for next weekend, we’ll have to wait two weeks before another major release hits theaters. That will happen in the form of Paramount’s Jackass Forever and Lionsgate’s Moonfall.

Meanwhile, this week there are a bevy of limited releases, including Roadside Attraction’s Canadian produced dramatization, Aline, The Voice of Love, while Vertical Entertainment will release the horror film, The Hunting.

Theater Counts for January 21

Bruce Nash

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