Our elected officials failed us a lot in 2020, but one of the most tangible ways to fail us was by deliberately ignoring the realities of the threat posed by COVID-19, resulting in what will soon be an entire year of restrictions and blockages. It’s hard to really understand how much time has passed, so here’s a clearer illustration of how the coronavirus nightmare has been prolonged: this weekend, the U.S. box office now two Thrillers by Liam Neeson since the beginning of the pandemic. Two! And no Marvel movie! The first was Honest thief in October, and now we have the Clint Eastwood style The shooter—What star Liam Neeson as a true certified American who lives on a ranch near the Mexican border and points his rifle at immigrants entering his property. He won the box office last weekend, raising quite an impressive $ 3.2 million. (It was also, for the record, the third Liam Neeson films the pandemic if you tell the comedy Made in Italy. Room if you count Common love of February. The man job.)
That was enough to dethrone Wonder Woman 1984, which still earned $ 2.6 million (for a respectable total of $ 35.8, which is a huge box office during this pandemic). Unfortunately for Diana Of Themyscira, however, any hope of exceeding the total bid of The Croods: A New Age are starting to slip away: it made just over $ 2 million last weekend, which is not much less than WW84, and put in just under $ 40 million. You’ll have to fall fast for Wonder Woman 1984 to recover – not that this, or anything like that, really matters.
The next points on the list, like last week, remains unchanged: World News won $ 1 million, Monster hunter won $ 920,000, Fatale made $ 530,000 (big drop between the two), and Promising young woman won just $ 430,000. Disney’s questionably needed relaunch for the week (The Emperor’s New Wave this time) he won just $ 169,000, and everything after that is pretty bleak. But, as we always say, it’s probably not safe to go to the movies right now, so … yes.
For a more detailed analysis of the weekend box office numbers, click on to Box Office Mojo.