BOX OFFICE: “Flash” fizzles out, 3rd Place finish, edging Jennifer Lawrence

“The Flash” lost his flash Wednesday of its first week of release, falling behind the Pixar bomb “Elemental” in tickets sold for the day.

That was but a harbinger of things to come, as a weak second Friday points to “Across the Spider-Verse” and “Elemental” passing “Flash” in its second weekend.

Those two films are projected by Deadline.com to duke it out for first place, with “Spider-Man” clearing $19 and Pixar’s under-performer managing $18 and change.

Big Thursday and Friday numbers from the raunchy Jennifer Lawrence farce, “No Hard Feelings,” drive it to a $15.1 million opening weekend. Not bad.

Warner’s/DC’s latest comic book movie may manage that — just a tad over $15.2 — a shocking plunge from a big but disappointing opening weekend in the mid-50s. A 60-75% falloff? That’s what we used to call a “Tyler Perry Plunge,” after his movies proved to be one weekend phenomena, back when he was making movies for the big screen.

“Transformers” have one more weekend in the top five, as Focus Features has Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” $9) doesn’t have the appeal to reach middle America and Focus couldn’t market Perrier to the parched.

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About Roger Moore

Movie Critic, formerly with McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, published in Spin Magazine, The World and now published here, Orlando Magazine, Autoweek Magazine
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