Fellow horror film Rings scared up few viewers in its opening weekend, grossing only $13 million, notably beneath the opening weekends of its two predecessors that debuted over a decade ago. Both of the two new releases that opened up in over 1,000 theaters this weekend have gone through numerous release date shuffles and it's apparent Paramount Pictures just didn't know what to do with Rings considering it originally slated for it to be released all the way back in November 2015. Now it's just gonna come and go without a trace and likely lose some money in the process given it's oddly high budget of $25 million.
A Dog's Purpose fetched another $10.8 million, a 40% drop from last weekend, as it brought its domestic cume up to $32.9 million. This one will lose a lot of family viewers to The LEGO Batman Movie next weekend but it should still end its domestic run in the neighborhood of $55-60 million, a solid cume. Hidden Figures continues to be a stand-out performer at the box office, dipping only 28% to gross another $10.1 million, bringing its domestic cume to a fantastic $119.4 million. I'm actually gonna say right now this one will end up crossing $150 million domestically which would be a phenomenal feat for this low-budget drama. And rounding out the top five was La La Land, which grossed another $7.4 million, down 39% from last weekend, and brought its total domestic gross to $118.3 million
A big second-weekend plummet greeted Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, which collapsed to the tune of 67% to gross another $4.5 million and bringing its domestic cume to $21.8 million. Coming off its numerous high profile Oscar nods, Lion expanded into 1,405 locations and grossed a solid $4 million, bringing its domestic total to $24.7 million. This one may just end up making a run for as high as $45 million domestically, a big win for both film and the studio behind it, The Weinstein Company, who've been needing a sleeper hit like this one for awhile now.
After shuffling out around the release calendar multiple different times, STX Entertainment had hoped The Space Between Us would soar in an early February slot. Instead, the movie had the distributor's lowest-grossing wide release opening weekend ever, grossing only $3.8 million. That's also the eleventh worst opening weekend ever for a movie debuting in over 2,500 theaters, so the news is bad all around for this one. Expect Space Between Us to vanish quickly from theaters and it's guaranteed to close its domestic run below $10 million.
Xander Cage rounded out the top ten with his newest movie, xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage, which grossed $3.7 million (a 57% plummet from last weekend) and has now grossed $40 million. The Founder continued to show solid legs at the box office, grossing another $1.5 million, a 42% decrease from last weekend, bringing it up to $9.9 million domestically. In its second frame, Gold withered away, going down 58% to gross another $1.4 million. This Matthew McConaughey movie has grossed only $6.6 million in ten days.
Debuting in 848 locations this weekend was The Comedian, only the second title ever from Sony Pictures Classics to open in wide release. It had the biggest opening weekend ever for the studio, but its $1.1 million bow was still mighty disappointing and was the worst wide release opening weekend ever for Robert DeNiro. On the other hand, Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro got off to a strong start, grossing $709,500 at 43 locations, the fourth biggest opening weekend ever for Magnolia Pictures and the twenty-seventh biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary.
The Top 12 movies at the domestic box office this weekend grossed a total of $81.1 million, slightly below average in terms of the usual top 12 box office cumes past Super Bowl weekends have delivered.
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