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Posted February 3, 2020 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: Bad Boys for Life Threepeats

For the third week in a row, Bad Boys for Life held onto the top spot of the box-office weekend. The comedy added another $17.7 million over this past weekend to lift its three-week total to $148.1 million. Once again, it easily outpaced the second-place film by $8 million.

Bad Boys for Life posterHolding onto second place for the second consecutive week was 1917, which added $9.7 million over the weekend, giving the film a six-week total of $119.2 million. Also sticking in the spot it held last weekend, was the comedy Dolittle, which brought in $7.7 million, giving the film a three-week total of $55.4 million.

The weekend’s first debut landed in fourth place as the horror film Gretel & Hansel took in $6.1 million, displacing last weekend’s fourth-place film The Gentlemen, which managed $6.0 million for its second weekend in release, giving the Guy Ritchie film a two-week tally of $20.4 million.

Dropping a spot to sixth this weekend was Jumanji: The Next Level, which added $6.0 million over the weekend, giving the sequel an eight-week total of $291.2 million. Holding its ground in the seventh spot of the box-office weekend was the latest Star Wars film, Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, which added $3.2 million to increase its seven-week total to $507.1 million.

Falling two spots, from sixth to eighth-place in only its second week of release, was the horror film The Turning, which made $3.1 million over the weekend and now claims a total of $11.7 million in its first two weeks in theaters. Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women dropped one spot to land in ninth place, but still added $3.0 million over the weekend, and now sports a six-week total of $98.8 million.

Finally, the Blake Lively-led action thriller The Rhythm Section debuted in the tenth spot of the weekend box-office earning $2.8 million. Two films left the top ten this weekend, they were the drama, Just Mercy, which took in $2.2 million after earning $30.8 million in its first six weeks of release. Meanwhile, Knives Out leaves the top ten after a long stay and earning a cumulative total of $155.6 million over its ten weeks in release.

Next weekend will see the return of Margot Robbie to the role of Harley Quinn in the sequel, of sorts, Birds of Prey.

Weekend Box Office (January 31st – February 2nd)

  1. Bad Boys for Life…$17.7 Million
  2. 1917…$9.7 Million
  3. Dolittle…$7.7 Million
  4. Gretel & Hansel…$6.1 Million
  5. The Gentlemen…$6.0 Million
  6. Jumanji: The Next Level…$6.0 Million
  7. Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker…$3.2 Million
  8. The Turning…$3.1 Million
  9. Little Women…$3.0 Million
  10. The Rhythm Section…$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.