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Box Office Weekend – ‘Us’ Doubles ‘Get Out’ Opening

by · March 24, 2019

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This weekend at the box office, Jordan Peele delivers another big socially-aware horror movie that scores big, while Captain Marvel predictably continues to succeed.

 

While Us has proven to be more contentious with audiences than Get Out (the CinemaScores for the former and latter are B and A-, the latter of which is a rarity for a horror movie), the movie’s big box office opening at $70M+ is already more than enough to push the $20M movie into the realm of profitability. It won’t need to be leggier than Get Out (which made it all the way to $176M+ domestically from an opening less than half the size of Us‘s) in order to qualify as a success because it’s already made triple its budget stateside. It still has yet to top its advertising costs, but that won’t be an issue for the movie, as there’s no horror competition until Paramount’s Pet Sematary hits two weeks from now.

 

Meanwhile, Captain Marvel‘s flight to $1B globally is all but assured, as the film has topped $300M domestically and $900M globally in a matter of three weeks. With no box office competition until Shazam! and Hellboy come out next month, Captain Marvel has a shot of potentially reaching the kind of heights that Captain America: Civil War did both domestically and abroad. The imminent release of Avengers: Endgame should also help boost its numbers in the same way that Avengers: Infinity War helped out Black Panther.

 

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

  1. Us (Universal Pictures) – $70.25M Weekend.
  2. Captain Marvel (Disney/Marvel Studios) – $35.021M Weekend/$321.498M Total; 48.5% Drop.
  3. Wonder Park (Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Movies) – $9M Weekend/$29.477M Total; 43.2% Drop.
  4. Five Feet Apart (Lionsgate Entertainment/CBS Films) – $8.75M Weekend/$26.461M Total; 33.7% Drop.
  5. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Animation) – $6.533M Weekend/$145.752M Total; 29.6% Drop.
  6. Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral (Lionsgate Entertainment) – $4.5M Weekend/$65.881M Total; 42.6% Drop.
  7. Gloria Bell (A24) – $1.802M Weekend/$2.498M Total; 394.5% Rise.
  8. No Manches Frida 2 (Lionsgate Entertainment/Pantelion Films) – $1.78M Weekend/$6.626M Total; 53.5% Drop.
  9. The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (Warner Bros./Warner Animation Group) – $1.125M Weekend/$103.328M Total; 47.7% Drop.
  10. Alita: Battle Angel (20th Century Fox) – $1.015M Weekend/$83.748M Total; 46.6% Drop.
  11. Captive State (Universal Pictures/Focus Features) – $918K Weekend/$5.229M Total; 70.7% Drop.
  12. Apollo 11 (Neon) – $800K Weekend/$6.865M Total; 31.2% Drop.

The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, Alita: Battle Angel, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Captain Marvel, and Us are now playing in theaters.

 

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