‘Asteroid City’ Rockets Past ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ at Friday Box Office

Wes Anderson's latest genre-fluid movie is expanding nationwide this week.

The sole bright spot in an otherwise underwhelming weekend at the box office is director Wes Anderson’s latest release, Asteroid City. At a time when everything from $200 million superhero movies to mid-budget romantic comedies are an endangered species commercially, the singular Anderson continues to command full control over the niche that he has carved out for himself over three decades.

The movie earned $3.8 million this Friday, where, fun fact, it outperformed Transformers: Rise of the Beasts in its third weekend by around $600,000. Asteroid City is eying a stupendous $8.4 million over the three-day weekend, which will push its running domestic tally to just under $10 million by Sunday. The film debuted in six locations last weekend, and generated exactly the kind of results that Focus Features would have hoped for, nicely setting it up for its expansion.

COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT According to Focus, Asteroid City delivered the best per-theater average for any movie debuting in six theaters, in addition to delivering the best per-theater average for any movie in the studio’s history. The high benchmark for specialty releases remains Anderson’s own The Grand Budapest Hotel, which delivered a PTA of $200,000 from four locations nearly a decade ago.

Asteroid City, which was largely filmed in Spain and premiered in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, boasts one of Anderson’s most sprawling ensemble casts.

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