moonlight box office
In the deathwatch of its Best Picture win at aftermost Sunday’s Oscars, “Moonlight” enjoyed a advantageous additional wind at the box appointment this weekend.
Barry Jenkins’ coming-of-age ball added $2.52 actor to its grosses, which now absolute $25.4 million, an absorbing sum for a cine that amount a bald $1.5 actor to make.
This was its best advantageous weekend yet. “Moonlight” played in 1,564 theaters, its accomplished calculation aback aboriginal aperture on four screens in backward October.
Movies are consistently re-released or broadcast to added amphitheater tallies afterwards scoring Best Picture, but the “Moonlight” acquirement acme that of the accomplished four Best Picture champions. Aftermost year’s titleholder, “Spotlight,” calm $1.8 million, according to Box Appointment Mojo. Before it, “Birdman” fabricated $1.9 million, and “12 Years a Slave” and “Argo” anniversary accrued about $2.1 million. All four saw abate expansions than “Moonlight.” To acquisition a Best Picture re-release that grossed added than “Moonlight,” we accept to go aback to 2012 champ “The Artist,” which drew $3.6 actor in 1,756 locations.
While some of the “Moonlight” achievement has been overshadowed by the envelope snafu that resulted in presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway at aboriginal consummate “La La Land,” this win should not be undersold. “Moonlight” climbed about 260 percent compared to the antecedent week’s grosses, by far the best of any cine this weekend. That’s abnormally absorbing because it had already hit VOD platforms. A24, the absolute flat abaft the film, additionally appear able agenda sales over the accomplished several days. The cine currently sits at No. 4 on the iTunes chart.
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