A quiet weekend at the box office, with โThe Beekeeper' on top and some Oscar boosts
Holdovers and Oscar hopefuls dominated the North American box office charts this weekend in the absence of any new wide releases.
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Outlook not improving for beleaguered US movie theaters
About three quarters of the countryโs movie theaters are open, but Americans are not going back in significant numbers in the COVID-era, even with new films coming into the marketplace weekly. The faith-based โInfidel,โ which stars Jim Caviezel, did the best with $1.5 million from just over 1,700 theaters. Both played in under 500 theaters across the country and neither got much more than $200 per location. โThe Nestโ earned an estimated $62,000 from 301 locations and โThe Secrets We Keepโ brought in just under $90,000 from 471 theaters. Christopher Nolan's โTenetโ has only earned $36.1 million from North American theaters to date.
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North America box office remains muted as โTenetโ tops again
Moviegoing audiences in North America are not rushing back to the theater just yet. In the second major weekend for U.S. and Canadian movie theaters, Christopher Nolanโs โTenetโ earned only $6.7 million from 2,910 locations, according to studio estimates Sunday. Although it is enough to top the charts, it also isnโt enough to jumpstart the struggling domestic exhibition industry. The weekendโs only major new opener was Sonyโs PG-13 rom-com โThe Broken Hearts Gallery,โ which earned an estimated $1.1 million from 2,204 North American locations. Other still-closed markets include North Carolina, Michigan, New Mexico and the cities of Seattle and Portland.