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Posted February 18, 2019 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box Office Weekend: ‘Alita’ On Top, Despite Disappointing Overall Holiday Numbers

The three-day President’s Day holiday this year belonged to Alita: Battle Angel which stood atop the box-office weekend with an estimated $27.8 million debut. Despite the impressive opening tallies, the film is still burdened with a $170 million price tag that it could be hard-pressed to earn enough to turn a profit. Overall though, the holiday box-office was the worst collective showing for a President’s Day weekend since 2004.

Alita: Battle Angel posterFinishing just behind this week’s leader was The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part which took in $21.2 million to bring its two-week total to $64.7 million. In third place was the Rebel Wilson-led romantic comedy Isn’t it Romantic, which debuted this week with a weekend performance garnering $14.2 million.

The weekend’s fourth-place spot belonged to the Taraji P. Henson vehicle, What Men Want, which added $10.9 million to raise its two-week total to an estimated $36.2 million. Debuting in fifth place this weekend was the horror sequel Happy Death Day 2U with an estimated $9.8 million. In sixth place was the thriller Cold Pursuit which added $6 million to bring its two-week tally to $21.1 million.

The seventh spot belongs to the Kevin Hart/Bryan Cranston vehicle The Upside, which made $5.6 million over the weekend to give the comedy/drama a six-week total of $94.2 million. Dropping down to the eighth spot was M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass, which, in its fifth week of release added $3.9 million to give it a total of $104.5 million. Similarly, the horror film The Prodigy limped out of its second week to the ninth spot earning just $3.2 million to give it a total of approximately $11 million as it prepares to leave the top ten next week.

Finally, the Oscar-nominated Green Book, held onto a spot in the top ten with a $2.8 million showing this weekend, which was good enough for a tenth-place finish, giving it a fourteen-week cumulative total of $65.8 million.

Next weekend will see the wide-release of the much-anticipated sequel How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, which should again shake up the box-office weekend for the better as the film has been doing solid business since being released internationally six weeks ago and could portend a solid, lengthy stateside performance.

Weekend Box Office (February 15th – February 17th)

  1. Alita: Battle Angel…$27.8 Million
  2. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part…$21.2 Million
  3. Isn’t It Romantic…$14.2 Million
  4. What Men Want…$10.9 Million
  5. Happy Death Day 2U…$9.8 Million
  6. Cold Pursuit…$6.0 Million
  7. The Upside…$5.6 Million
  8. Glass…$3.9 Million
  9. The Prodigy…$3.2 Million
  10. Green Book…$2.8 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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