In second place was newcomer A Dog's Purpose, which grossed $18.3 million, which is the ninth biggest opening weekend ever for a live-action movie about a dog, narrowly edging out the $17 million and $17.8 million bows of fellow January canine family movies Hotel For Dogs and Snow Dogs, respectively. If A Dog's Purpose holds like normal family movies do (i.e. doing three times its opening weekend), this is also looking like it'll be Dennis Quaid's biggest movie since G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra back in 2009. Overall, a solid bow for a $22 million budgeted live-action family movie whose debut was likely obstructed (and rightfully so, in the opinion of this dog lover writer) by a video that leaked of poor doggies being mistreated on the set of the movie. It's impossible to say how much it affected the movie, but I'd bet it cost come canine fans from seeing the film.
Hidden Figures continued to be a box office powerhouse, easing only 11% to gross another $14 million, sending the inspirational drama rocketing past the $100 million domestically barrier. Hidden Figures has now grossed $104 million domestically and could be headed for a final domestic cume as high as $140 million.
The Resident Evil franchise came to a close this weekend (though watch 'em reboot this thing in five years time) with Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, which hit a new low for an opening weekend in the franchise, debuting to only $13.8 million, down 39% from the $21 million bow of the previous Resident Evil movie and only 1% ahead of the bow of Underworld: Blood Wars three weeks ago. Even with this anemic domestic debut, the newest Resident Evil is still making coin overseas, especially in Japan, and should easily get as high as $135 million worldwide on a $40 million budget, which is actually a solid showing all things considered.
Expanding to 3,136 locations this weekend was La La Land, which proceeded to gross another $12 million domestically, a 43% increase from last weekend, taking it past the $100 million mark domestically for a domestic cume of $106.5 million. Could this musical be making a serious run at $150 million domestically? We'll see in the weeks ahead, but this is already an incredible run for the original musical.
Dropping from its opening weekend this frame was xXx: Return Of Xander Cage, which slid down 59% to gross another $8.2 million, bringing its domestic haul to $33.4 million. While Xander's newest adventure has surpassed the domestic cume of xXx: State Of The Union, it's highly unlikely the film gets much higher domestically than the $44.5 million opening weekend of the frist xXx movie. Sing held well in the face of new family movie A Dog's Purpose (both Dog and Sing hail from Universal), dipping only 31% in its sixth weekend of release to gross another $6.2 million. This animated family movie hit has now grossed $257.4 million domestically, putting it ahead of the $251.5 million domestic haul of the first Despicable Me movie.
Rogue One kept on chugging with its second smallest weekend-to-weekend decline, going down 29% to add $5.1 million to its massive domestic gross that now stands at $520 million. It looks like this one will be able to narrowly edge out The Dark Knight's $534.8 million domestic gross to become the seventh biggest movie of all-time domestically. In its third weekend, Monster Trucks revved up another $4.1 million, a 42% decrease that's bigger than the third weekend declines of recent January family movies like The Nut Job and Paddington. Creech's big movie has now grossed only $28.1 million domestically and its meager domestic run is likely about to come to a close with The LEGO Batman Movie on the horizon in two weeks time.
Considering how I saw only one ad for Gold in its entire marketing run (there was a commercial for it during last week's Saturday Night Live), it's no surprise this Matthew McConaughey feature went belly-up at the box office this weekend. Grossing a mere $3.4 million, this one managed to dethrone the $3.7 million bow of Larger Than Life to have the lowest grossing wide release opening weekend of Matthew McConaughey's career. Aside from Sing, the past year has not been kind to McConaughey at the box office and he's likely looking for this summer's The Dark Tower to turn things around, pronto.
Fellow Weinstein Company release The Founder held quite well in its second weekend, going down only 21% to gross another $2.6 million, a strong hold that occurred despite it adding no new theaters and The Founder not getting any Oscar nominations. The Founder has now grossed $7.5 million and it'll probably end its domestic run in the neighborhood of $12-13 million, not terrible for a movie that cost only $7 million to make. Moana, which sent out a sing-along version of itself to many theaters this weekend, dipped only 10% this weekend to gross another $2.4 million, bringing its domestic gross to $240 million and will soon surpass Toy Story 2's $245.8 million domestic gross to become the second biggest movie of all-time to opening over Thanksgiving weekend. Lion, surprisingly, added no new locations this weekend (it'll apparently go into over 1,000 theaters next weekend) but managed to continue its solid run at the box office by going up 35% and adding $2.3 million to a domestic cume that now stands at $19 million.
Raees debuted in limited release this weekend to strong results, garnering $1.8 million at 265 theaters for a per-theater average of $6,996. No official estimates are in for Manchester By The Sea yet, but Deadline reported on Saturday morning that it was on track to gross $1.9 million this weekend, which would put its domestic gross at $41.4 million. Fellow Best Picture nominee Moonlight, unfortunately, didn't get as much of a boost from its eight high-profile Oscar nominations as one might think, generating $1.5 million from 1,104 theaters for a middling per-theater average of $1,394. It appears this one's darker tone may keep people away when lighter Best Picture nominees like La La Land, Hidden Figures and even Lion are out there. Pity that, since Moonlight deserves all the money in the world in my book. Moonlight now stands with a $17.7 million domestic haul. Arrival went back into 1,221 theaters this weekend and added $1.4 million to a domestic cume that now stands at $97.3 million. Looks like this one will end up squeezing past the $100 million mark domestically after all.
Newly dubbed Best Picture nominee Fences got a more mild theater expansion this weekend, going into 880 theaters but actually got a better per-theater average than both Moonlight and Arrival, grossing $1,602 per-theater for a weekend sum of $1.4 million and a current domestic total of $50.7 million. Un Padre No Tan Padre debuted to an underwhelming bow compared to past Pantelion features grossing only $1 million from 312 locations for a per-theater average of $3,285. In its second weekend of wide release, 20th Century Women dipped 32% to gross another $938,340 for a domestic gross of $3.9 million. Interestingly, Jackie has managed to quietly become tidy moneymaker in limited release over the past month, as it added $665,000 to a domestic cume that now stands at $12.1 million.
Gathering another $415,000 this weekend after scoring a Best Picture nod was Hacksaw Ridge, which has now grossed $65.9 million. Hell Or High Water apparently went back into theatrical release this weekend but there are no box office figures for it. Holding quite well in a theatrical expansion was Paterson, which expanded into 51 theaters to gross another $173,438 for a per-theater average of $3,401, down only 1% from its per-theater average from last weekend. Paterson has now grossed $792,880 domestically. After getting a Best Foreign Film nomination, Toni Erdman went into 20 theaters to gross a solid $102,294 for a per-theater average of $5,115, which is actually up from its per-theater average last weekend. The Jackie Chan comedy Kung Fu Yoga grossed $112,000 at 14 theaters for a per-theater average of $8,021. And finally, getting off to a strong start was The Salesman, which grossed $71,071 at 3 locations for a per-theater average of $23,690.
The top 12 movies this weekend grossed $117.2 million, the fifth best showing for the fourth weekend of any given year.
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