Box-Office Weekend: SEND HELP Repeats

Box Office Weekend

Four new films found their way onto the box-office weekend top ten, but last week’s top film – Send Help – held onto the top spot for another weekend by a margin of $2.8 million.

"Send Help" posterIn its second weekend of release, Send Help took in $10.0 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, allowing it to hold the number one spot of the weekend’s top ten while bringing its two-week total to $35.8 million. Meanwhile, Angel’s Solo Mio debuted in second place with $7.2 million earned over the course of its first weekend in release. This caused Iron Lung to drop from second to third where it made $6.0 million over the weekend for Markiplier, giving the film a two-week total of $30.8 million. Fourth place saw the debut of Bleecker Street Media’s Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience bring in $5.6 million. Vertical Entertainment’s Dracula debuted in fifth place with $4.5 million taken in over the weekend.

After a fourth-place finish last weekend, Zootopia 2 found itself down to spots this weekend where it took in $4.0 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures as it brought the film’s eleven-week total to $414.5 million. This pushed Avatar: Fire and Ash from sixth to seventh place where it made $3.5 million over the weekend for 20th Century Studios, bringing the film’s eight-week total to $391.5 million. Lionsgate saw its The Strangers: Chapter 3 debut in eighth place just behind the “Avatar” sequel with $3.49 million taken in over the last three days. Falling four spots from last weekend, Black Bear’s Shelter landed in ninth place this weekend where it took in $2.4 million to bring its two-week total to $10.1 million. Finally, after claiming third place last weekend, Melania plummeted to tenth place this weekend where it made $2.37 million for Amazon MGM Studios, giving the film a two-week total of $13.4 million.

As happened seven days ago, all of the bottom four films from last weekend failed to make the cut and land on this weekend’s box-office top ten. Seventh-place finisher Mercy departs the top ten with a three-week total of $22.8 million for Amazon MGM Studios. Meanwhile, Lionsgate enjoyed a productive eight weeks from The Housemaid that yielded a total of $123.7 million for the studio before the film fell out of the top ten this weekend. Also departing the top ten in its eighth weekend of release was A24’s Marty Supreme, which managed to bring in a total to date of $93.2 million for the studio. Finally, after a tenth-place finish last weekend, the Sony Pictures Releasing product 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple leaves the top ten with a four-week total of $24.8 million.

Weekend Box Office
(February 6th – February 8th)

    1. Send Help…$10.0 Million
    2. Solo Mio…$7.2 Million
    3. Iron Lung…$6.0 Million
    4. Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience…$5.6 Million
    5. Dracula…$4.5 Million
    6. Zootopia 2…$4.0 Million
    7. Avatar: Fire and Ash…$3.5 Million
    8. The Strangers: Chapter 3…$3.49 Million
    9. Shelter…$2.4 Million
    10. Melania…$2.37 Million
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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