Disobedience was close behind with an average of $47,479 in five theaters. Bleecker Street and Soderberghs Fingerprint Releasing partnered in releasing the indie psychological horror-thriller, which was shot with an iPhone 7 and cost just north of $1 million to produce. Specialty Box Office: Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs' Barks Up Career When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. Infinity War should earn more than that opening weekend. Andersons other stop-motion film, Fantastic Mr. Fox, was rated PG and was far more family-friendly. Fox Searchlight's stop-motion animated film opened with $1.57 million in just 27 locations. Debuting on four screens, the film made$34,184 for a PSA of $8,546. While Isle of Dogs doesn't work, it's an interesting failure. Disney can absorb the loss on Pirates failing to launch, but for Paramount, which looked to Transformers as its major tentpole and has another sequel and a Bumblebee spinoff on the slate, this was very bad news. Based on Friday numbers, the studio is predicting a $65 million opening weekend China alone and a $120.5 million international debut. Overall, the box office fell 9.8% from last weekend to $147 million. Thats about what the top four will earn this year. But week in and week out, weve watched the studios hold their breath and hope that the weekends big new release didnt underperform that badly or at least snagged a decent overseas haul to make up for it. Other times their bias to British films is too much. To get to nearly $60,000 proves that we were right in giving fans an opportunity to come out as soon as possible, says Fox Searchlight distribution chief Frank Rodriguez, noting that the pic played just as well in mainstream multiplexes as it did in arthouse locales. The film has a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes from 15 reviews. This is one of the worst weeks on the home market I can remember. I think this year will be an example of the latter and I don't think The Favourite is suddenly an Oscar favorite.