Helen Mirren in Winchester

In Theaters This Week (2/2/2018): Winchester

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Each Thursday we look at what is going to be coming out in theaters this weekend, show you the trailers for the big releases, predict the box office winner and just generally give you enough of a carrot to pull you through the rest of the work week.  Nobody likes to compete with the Super Bowl, so there is only one wide release hitting theaters this weekend.

Winchester
For our 100th “In Theaters” column, you’d hope for a more exciting weekend, but movies tend to try to advertise ON the Super Bowl telecast not compete at the theater AGAINST the most watched US television event of the year.  So only one new release goes wide this week: the horror film Winchester.  Based on a true story about the heir to the Winchester Rifle fortune and her ever expanding, incredibly haunted house, the film sounds intriguing, but no reviews the day the film comes out is never a good sign, even for horror fans who normally couldn’t care less about reviews.

Winchester (Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, PG-13, 1hr 39min)


 


How Did We Do Last Week? 
KT picked Maze Runner: The Death Cure to be the first 2018 film to win a weekend at the box office, and the finale to the trilogy did so, pulling in a subdued $24.2 million.  Falling to second place is the juggernaut that is Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle with $16.2 million.  Jumanji has now pulled in $339.9 million domestically and $823.9 million globally in its run.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi has now made $611.5 million domestic and $1.312 billion globally.  It is the sixth film ever to cross the domestic $600 million mark this weekend  All-time, it remains the #6 highest grossing film domestically, and will need to pass $623 to displace The Avengers and crack the top five.  Internationally, it is the #9 film.  It has an outside shot to displace Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 at #8.
(2018 Prediction Record: 4-0; Lifetime prediction record 89-10).

Dylan O'Brien in Maze Runner: The Death Cure

WHO WILL WIN THE WEEKEND?
Winchester is not generating the normal horror movie buzz, plus it’s not been screened for critics, so I’m reluctant to give it the nod.  Instead, I think Jumanji is going to rear its head one last time and take a narrow win over Maze Runner and Winchester in a very subdued weekend at the box office.
Dwayne Johnson in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

2 thoughts on “In Theaters This Week (2/2/2018): Winchester”

  1. I’m sorry, but there are bleeding walls in this trailer, a child singing a nursery rhyme song, AND a doctor saying he does not believe in anything he cannot see or prove. I don’t believe a human being wrote this movie, I think a bundle of paper was put through some kind of processor. Also, when you hear that Helen Mirin is starring in a film called Winchester, you think costume drama, not horror film. And when you realize it’s a horror film, you think it’s going to be more sophisticated than this. I really, really don’t like this genre, but something inside me still wishes, time and again, that they would try harder.


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