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The box office has suffered some major disappointments this year. But some of those movies that dramatically flopped are finding a modicum of new life through digital.
Every week, Fandango Now provides Business Insider with its top movies that people are renting or buying through the service. Fandango Now is movie-ticket service Fandango's on-demand video service, in which viewers can rent or buy from a selection of over 900,00 movies on digital, including recent theatrical releases, without a subscription. It's available on platforms including desktop, Roku, Chromecast, Movies Anywhere, and Apple and Android mobile devices.
This week includes blockbusters like "Toy Story 4" and "Spider-Man: Far From Home" as well as movies that failed to attract audiences while in theaters, such as the comedy "Stuber" and the "X-Men" movie "Dark Phoenix." It suggests that audiences are far more willing to watch a movie they are hesitant of on digital at a lower cost than they are to go to the theater.
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We've included the percentage of the total of buys/rentals the movie has on Fandango Now. A lower percentage doesn't necessarily mean it's not desirable, just that bigger or newer movies are making up a larger percentage. However, a movie can also climb if it resonates: "John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum" rose from ninth place last week to sixth on this week's list.
Below are the top 11 movies on Fandango Now the past week:
What critics said: "This movie is 'ruin your childhood' bad, right down to the hideous auto-tuned end credits song they chose to use instead of the original 'Theme From Shaft.'" — RogertEbert.com
10. "Anna" — 1%
Number of weeks on digital: 4
Placement on last week's list: 7
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 36%
What critics said: "The gunplay in Anna grows repetitive before long, and the heroine's invincibility feels like a cheap substitute for the power that Besson wields over her." — Indiewire
9. "Crawl" — 1%
Number of weeks on digital: 2
Placement on last week's list: 1
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 82%
What critics said: "Crawl is not exactly an inventive film. But it doesn't have to be. It delivers on what it promises, and not many big-studio movies this year can claim the same." — Globe and Mail
8. "Dark Phoenix" — 1%
Number of weeks on digital: 5
Placement on last week's list: 5
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 23%
What critics said: "The movie's weaknesses make more glaring the movie's hollowness where the storyline's feminism once was." — Slate
7. "Yesterday" — 2%
Number of weeks on digital: 3
Placement on last week's list: 4
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 62%
What critics said: "Yesterday is ultimately a romantic comedy, but a conceptually complex one, built on a peculiarly reactionary framework of private life and a culturally conservative pop classicism." — New Yorker
6. "John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum" — 2%
Number of weeks on digital: 7
Placement on last week's list: 9
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 90%
What critics said: "The set pieces are more imaginative and daring than ever. There's a musicality and wit to the action that only the Mission: Impossible series can equal." — NPR
5. "Aladdin" — 2%
Number of weeks on digital: 6
Placement on last week's list: 8
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 57%
What critics said: "There are efforts made, whether through good faith or just market savvy, to update Princess Jasmine into a people's champion who might prefer ruling to romance. Enough to make you wish the Disney people had gone whole hog and just called it Jasmine." — San Diego Reader
4. "Toy Story" four-movie collection — 4%
Number of weeks on digital: 1
Placement on last week's list: New
3. "Stuber" — 5%
Number of weeks on digital: 1
Placement on last week's list: New
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 42%
What critics said: "Talk about running on fumes. This buddy comedy traps two talented dudes — Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista — in a car that's going nowhere so fast that Thelma and Louise would hop right on." — Rolling Stone
2. "Spider-Man: Far From Home" — 17%
Number of weeks on digital: 3
Placement on last week's list: 2
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 90%
What critics said: "Spider-Man: Far from Home is breezy and enjoyable, focusing on all that's most appealing about Peter Parker and his web-slinging alter ego Spider-Man." — Time Magazine
1. "Toy Story 4" — 25%
Number of weeks on digital: 1
Placement on last week's list: New
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 97%
What critics said: "The latest installment, 'Toy Story 4,' is perhaps the bleakest (and most beautiful) of them all." — Salon
