Welcome back one and all to the weekly box office report! As is always the case, each and every Sunday you can expect a look at what made the most money in theaters, as well as just how all of the new releases fared. This week, a potential blockbuster is brewing in the Academy Award hopeful Ford v Ferrari, which is going up against Charlie’s Angels and The Good Liar for the crown this week. Spoiler alert: it was not a close race, no pun intended. Joining them are some Oscar contenders in limited release, like The Report and Waves. How did they all do? Read on to see how the weekend turned out… Zooming out to a first place finish with a tremendous $31 million was Ford v Ferrari, a big Academy Award player for Twentieth Century Fox. Boasting an A+ CinemaScore, this is shaping up to be potentially an even bigger crowd pleaser than expected. Audiences took note of the glowing reviews, and now voters may well take notice of the hefty start at the box office! Falling down to second was Midway, last weekend’s surprise winner. Another $8.7 million or so into its war chest makes this still unlikely to be profitable, but hardly the bomb that it seemed like it was going to be, just a few short weeks ago. Disappointing at number three was Charlie’s Angels. Only able to drum up $8.6 million, this is a black eye for Sony. Expected to draw in loads of young women, it appears as though almost everyone wound up staying away. Perhaps the mixed critical reception doomed this one? Down at number seven is The Good Liar, also opening with pretty poor numbers. A little more than $5.6 million is not what Warner Bros. was hoping for, that’s for sure. In terms of adult drama, the aforementioned Ford v Ferrari sucked up all of the space, it seems. Joker crossed the $1 Billion mark at the worldwide box office during the week, becoming the highest grossing R rated film in the process. Even the boldest predictions never expected this. Congrats to the filmmakers and folks at Warner Bros. for this, who can now even more fully focus on an awards campaign… Among indie/limited release titles, Waves had a solid start, taking in a little more than 144K from four theaters, while Mickey and the Bear made a bit over 9K on a single screen. [...]