LET HIM GO (2020): Thomas Bezucha’s Thriller Tops Box Office on Election Week

Thomas Bezucha’s Let Him Go Tops Box Office

Director Thomas Bezucha‘s Let Him Go for Focus Features topped a weak box office weekend, taking in around $4.1 million

Given the circumstances surrounding the pandemic, it was enough to take first place. Another Focus Features project, the horror film Come Play, took second place at $1.7 million in its second week in theaters.

Let Him Go stars Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as a retired sheriff and his wife, who leave their ranch to rescue their grandson from a dangerous family in the Dakotas in what turns into a violent confrontation. The film was written and directed and produced by Thomas Bezucha, writer and director of the family comedies Monte Carlo (2011) and The Family Stone (2005).

The Robert De Niro family comedy The War With Grandpa, from 101 Studios, came in third at $1.5 million, bringing its three week total to $13.4 million. The Liam Neeson thriller Honest Thief, came in fourth at $1.1 million, bringing its total up to $11.2 million. Christopher Nolan’s Tenet finished fifth with a $905,000 domestic box office, putting the movie’s domestic total at $55.1 million. Not that the Tenet has made $350.8 million worldwide. The film has almost finished its box office run, because Warner Bros. has said that Tenet will soon be available on home entertainment systems in December. Given its $200 million production and marketing budget, the film will probably not be profitable in the end.

Warner Bros. also reported that Robert Zemeckis‘s adaptation of The Witches, the children’s horror novel by Roald Dahl, brought in $3.5 million in overseas box office, bringing its total run to $10.1 million. In the United States, Warner Bros. opted instead to debut on HBO Max instead of in theaters.

Universal Pictures has been working throughout the pandemic partly because of a deal with AMC Theaters that allows the corporations to release movies on video on demand platforms within two and a half weeks of their debut in theaters. AMC gets a cut of the digital revenues in return. With meager options, film exhibitors will do anything they can to juice ticket sales. But with box offices like these, many theater companies large and small may not survive through the winter. If Wonder Woman 1984 doesn’t release this Christmas, it may sound a death knell for American movie theaters.

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