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Posted January 28, 2019 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box Office Weekend: ‘Glass’ Repeats On Top

Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass finished on top of the weekend box office for the second week in a row this past weekend. Bringing in an estimated $19 million, the film pushed its two-week tally to just under $74 million and managed to remain the king of the box-office weekend for at least one more week.

glass posterFinishing in second place, as it did last week, was the Kevin Hart/Bryan Cranston starring comedy/drama The Upside, which added $12.2 million over the weekend to bring its three-week total to $63.1 million. Elsewhere, Aquaman climbed one spot up to third place from fourth, bringing in $7.4 million in its sixth week of release. This raises the film’s domestic total to approximately $313.6 million while also allowing it to top $1.09 billion worldwide.

Meanwhile, the family-friendly feature The Kid Who Would Be King debuted in fourth place over the weekend with $7.3 million, allowing it to finish just behind the Aquaman juggernaut. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse held onto the fifth spot bringing in $6.2 million to give it a seven-week total of $169 million.

On the heels of multiple Oscar nominations, Universal’s Green Book re-entered the box-office weekend top ten this week in the sixth spot adding $5.4 million to bring its eleven-week domestic total to $49 million. This dropped A Dog’s Way Home, which took in $5.2 million in its third week, down to seventh place.

This weekend’s other debut, the dramatic thriller Serenity, earned $4.8 million for Aviron Pictures, landing it in the eighth spot of the weekend box office. In it’s fourth week of release, Escape Room brought in $4.3 million as it fell from the seventh spot to the eighth in this top ten. Finally, Dragon Ball Super: Broly plummeted from its third place finish last week to barely hanging onto a spot in the top ten this weekend, earning $3.6 just million.

Three films that take leave of the top ten this weekend include: Mary Poppins Returns (which has made $165 million during its domestic run), Bumblebee ($121.3 million), and On the Basis of Sex ($21.1 million).

Weekend Box Office (January 25th – January 27th)

  1. Glass…$19 Million
  2. The Upside…$12.2 Million
  3. Aquaman…$7.4 Million
  4. The Kid Who Would Be King…$7.3 Million
  5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse…$6.2 Million
  6. Green Book…$5.4 Million
  7. A Dog’s Way Home…$5.2 Million
  8. Serenity…$4.8 Million
  9. Escape Room…$4.3 Million
  10. Dragon Ball Super: Broly…$3.6 Million
Mike Tyrkus

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.
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