Box Office: November 1-3, 2019: TERMINATOR: DARK FATE, JOKER, MALFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL, & More

Box Office November 1-3, 2019

Terminator: Dark Fate premiered in Number One spot at the box office over the weekend with $29 Million. With the Terminator name, cast, and filmography, many hoped (and projected) that Terminator: Date Fate would open far better than a mid-level action film with no film history. It seems that people are really tired of the same old tropes recycled with better effects but with worse and worse scripts in each incarnation.

Joker was Second at the box office over the weekend with $13.9 Million for $299.6 Million. Worldwide, Joker has made $934 Million so far. Joker has been in-theaters for five weeks and has not left the top five films during its run. In fact, Joker has not been out of the top three films since the film was released on October 4, 2019.

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil was Third at the box office over the weekend with $12.1 Million.

Harriet was Fourth with $12 Million in the United States’ box office.

The Addams Family was Fifth Place at the box office over the weekend with $9 Million.

Zombieland: Double Tap, Countdown, Black and Blue, Motherless Brooklyn (which premiered this weekend), and Arctic Dogs (which premiered this weekend) rounded out the Top Ten respectively.

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

Terminator: Dark Fate is a 2019 American science fiction action film directed by Tim Miller, with a screenplay by David Goyer, Justin Rhodes, and Billy Ray, from a story by James Cameron, Charles H. Eglee, Josh Friedman, Goyer and Rhodes. Cameron and David Ellison are the film’s producers. It is the sixth installment in the Terminator franchise and a direct sequel to The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), while Cameron described Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), Terminator Genisys (2015) and the television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009) as occurring in alternate timelines. Terminator: Dark Fate stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger returning in their roles of Sarah Connor and the T-800 “Terminator”, respectively, reuniting after 28 years. The film also stars Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, and Diego Boneta as new characters.

Harriet is a 2019 American action biographical film about slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Directed by Kasi Lemmons, who wrote the screenplay with Gregory Allen Howard, it stars Cynthia Erivo as Tubman, with Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, and Janelle Monáe in supporting roles.

Motherless Brooklyn is a 2019 American neo-noir crime film written, produced, and directed by Edward Norton, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Jonathan Lethem. Set in 1957 New York City, the film follows a private investigator with Tourette syndrome who must solve the murder of his mentor. Norton also stars in the film, along with Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, Alec Baldwin, and Willem Dafoe.

Arctic Dogs (also known as Arctic Justice) is a 2019 computer-animated comedy film co-written and directed by Aaron Woodley and co-directed by Dimos Vrysellas. The film stars the voices of Jeremy Renner, Heidi Klum, James Franco, John Cleese, Omar Sy, Michael Madsen, Laurie Holden, Anjelica Huston, and Alec Baldwin.

Next week sees the release of: Doctor Sleep, Last Christmas, Midway, and a plethora of other mainstream and independent films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Doctor Sleep will be Number One at the box office.

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