Universal’s Glass performed at
expectations while The Upside continues to hold its own and
Green Book surprised. Read The Movie Sleuth’s new Box Office
take.
M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass
lead the holiday weekend box office with $40.5 million. Final numbers
for the superhero trilogy’s finale will be available tomorrow.
The Upside, featuring Kevin Hart
and Bryan Cranston continued to perform strongly, falling 23% week
over week with $15.6 million. The STX release, which was originally
financed by The Weinstein Company before it fell apart, smartly
positioned itself in the weekend leading up to the MLK extended
weekend.
Warners’ Aquaman fell two
spots to be replaced with the animated Dragon Ball Super: Broly
in the number three spot, taking in an estimated $10.3 million as it
starts to shed screens with a cumulative box office take of $304m.
Dragon Ball Super: Broly bested Aquaman with a $10.6
million box office take with 1233 screens for an $8,640 per screen
average.
The newly minted
PGA winner, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse continued
churning at the box office with a respectable $7.2 million run this
weekend for fifth place, with a $158 million box office cume. It
would not surprise us if it achieved Oscar recognition later this
upcoming week.
Sony wasn’t done claiming more spots
in the top 10 when its A Dog’s Way Home took 6th,
after dropping three spots followed closely by Escape Room.
Both films are holding somewhat strongly.
Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns
slipped two spots while it continues to be a box office draw with
$5.2 million this weekend. Not to be outdone, Paramount’s Bumblebee
took a respectable seventh place with $4.6 million. There seems to be
gas left in Hasbro’s Transformers franchise as Paramount has
announced that it is green lighting a sequel, a move which was not
entirely unexpected, given this film’s performance.
Rounding out the top ten is Focus
Features’ On the Basis of Sex, the Ruth Bader Ginsberg
biopic with $3.9 million.
Of interest is Peter Farrelly’s Green
Book from Universal. It picked up some steam this weekend witih a
5.4% increase over the prior weekend taking in $2.2 million with an
additional 170 screens added. The film, which has created controversy
over its authenticity and has been a crowd pleaser, took home the
PGA’s top honor on Saturday night.
Box Office figures courtesy of Box
Office Mojo.
-Ben Cahlamer