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Box Office Weekend – ‘Glass’ is Half-Full With Solid Opening

by · January 22, 2019

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This weekend at the box office, Glass has scored one of the biggest January openings ever (albeit a bit below the expectations of some competitors) while Dragon Ball Super: Broly managed to fight its way into the Top Five, Aquaman crossed $300M domestically, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has outgrossed Mary Poppins Returns.

 

The M. Night Shyamalan crossover between Unbreakable and Split performed closer to the latter film, narrowly topping it overall. The movie has enjoyed a solid $47M+ four-day weekend, even if rivals were predicting an opening closer to $50M to $60M. Reception to Glass hasn’t been quite as glowing as Split, with the ending of the movie seeming to sharply divide audiences in spite of the consensus being that it’s a well-made film (at least up until that point), so it will be interesting to see how the movie performs long-term. However, it’s more than made its production budget back domestically and abroad, which is a clear win for M. Night Shyamalan. Hopefully, his future endeavors are received more closely to Split than Glass.

 

If you want additional proof that the box office is built for superheroes, look no further than the likes of Aquaman and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Aquaman may have scored the smallest box office opening for a release in the DC Films shared universe, but it has legged its way past Man of Steel domestically and will end its global run with over $1.1B. With Captain Marvel not hitting theaters until early March, there’s plenty of time for it to top the domestic grosses of Suicide Squad and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Meanwhile, Spider-Man did whatever a spider could all the way to $160M+, which is just over the amount that Mary Poppins Returns is at right now. The top two biggest movies of December weren’t a surprisingly-critically-acclaimed Transformers spin-off or a belated sequel to a Disney classic, as some had predicted, but a pair of super-powered hits from Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures Animation. (Marvel, you might want to seriously start thinking about scheduling a future Avengers movie in time for Christmas.)

 

The biggest surprise of the weekend has to be just how well Dragon Ball Super: Broly did, with nearly $22M in the bank over six days – while the movie was expected to do well among the niche market of anime movies in the United States, Broly‘s performance is an absolute knockout. While Dragon Ball is consistently one of the best-performing anime/manga franchises in the United States, and Broly‘s direct predecessors (Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’) outperformed each other with limited runs of $2.5M and $8M respectively, the third movie in the trilogy of modern Dragon Ball adaptations managed to best both of them put together over the course of the three-day weekend. Business is pretty front-loaded on the action-packed anime, but the film has managed to outdo The Secret World of Arietty‘s domestic performance, which is quite an accomplishment considering that Broly has explicitly been given a limited run as opposed to a standard theatrical release. Even more amazing: there’s still a chance that it could even outdo the film’s $33.3M performance in Japan! In any event, Broly will continue playing until Thursday.

 

The Top Twelve box office performances for the three-day weekend can be summarized as follows (bolded titles are new releases):

  1. Glass (Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Productions) – $40.586M Total.
  2. The Upside (STX Films) – $15.67M Weekend/$43.983M Total; 23% Drop.
  3. Dragon Ball Super: Broly (FUNimation Films/20th Century Fox) – $10.652M Weekend/$21.072M Total.
  4. Aquaman (Warner Bros./DC Films) – $10.33M Weekend/$304.336M Total; 40.5% Drop.
  5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation) – $7.255M Weekend/$158.256M Total; 19.8% Drop.
  6. A Dog’s Way Home (Sony Pictures) – $7.11M Weekend/$21.278M Total; 36.8% Drop.
  7. Escape Room (Sony Pictures) – $5.275M Weekend/$40.7M Total; 40.9% Drop.
  8. Mary Poppins Returns (Disney) – $5.244M Weekend/$158.731M Total; 31.5% Drop.
  9. Bumblebee (Paramount Pictures) – $4.66M Weekend/$115.943M Total; 35.4% Drop.
  10. On the Basis of Sex (Universal Pictures/Focus Features) – $3.965M Weekend/$16.876M Total; 34.7% Drop.
  11. The Mule (Warner Bros.) – $3.505M Weekend/$96.929M Total; 38.2% Drop.
  12. Green Book (Universal Pictures) – $2.263M Weekend/$41.974M Total; 5.4% Rise.

The Top Twelve box office performances for the four-day weekend can be summarized as follows (bolded titles are new releases):

  1. Glass (Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Productions) – $47M Total.
  2. The Upside (STX Films) – $18.35M Weekend/$46.663M Total; 9.9% Drop.
  3. Aquaman (Warner Bros./DC Films) – $12.57M Weekend/$306.576M Total; 27.6% Drop.
  4. Dragon Ball Super: Broly (FUNimation Films/20th Century Fox) – $11.494M Weekend/$21.914M Total.
  5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation) – $9.75M Weekend/$160.751M Total; 7.7% Rise.
  6. A Dog’s Way Home (Sony Pictures) – $9.635M Weekend/$23.803M Total; 14.4% Drop.
  7. Escape Room (Sony Pictures) – $6.75M Weekend/$42.175M Total; 24.4% Drop.
  8. Mary Poppins Returns (Disney) – $6.736M Weekend/$160.223M Total; 12% Drop.
  9. Bumblebee (Paramount Pictures) – $5.83M Weekend/$117.113M Total; 19.1% Drop.
  10. On the Basis of Sex (Universal Pictures/Focus Features) – $4.647M Weekend/$17.558M Total; 23.5% Drop.
  11. The Mule (Warner Bros.) – $3.835M Weekend/$97.259M Total; 32.4% Drop.
  12. Ralph Breaks the Internet (Disney/Walt Disney Animation Studios) – $3.144M Weekend/$194.203M Total; 39.2% Rise.

Ralph Breaks the Internet, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Mary Poppins Returns, Bumblebee, Aquaman, and Glass are now playing in theaters.

 

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