It is a slow week for new releases. After the smash opening weekend of Fifty Shades of Grey, the box office took a nose dive as Will Smith and his con artist comedy/drama Focus opened in first place with a fairly tepid estimated $19.1 million, a rough start to the $50 million budgeted film. In second, Kingsman: The Secret Service finds it has settled comfortably in second place for the third week in a row, earning an estimated $11.8 million. Counting its worldwide take, it has managed to pull itself into decent financial footing, while it is no match for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, whose estimated $11.2 million puts it at nearly double its costs in domestic earnings alone, and Fifty Shades of Grey, whose worldwide $486.2 million (and estimated $10.9 million weekend) practically guarantees the rest of the franchise will follow, regardless of critical reception.
At the bottom, The DUFF proved fairly resilient, picking up an estimated $7.2 million and a profitable $20.1 million in domestic gross. Still Alice, starring Julianne Moore as an Alzheimer’s-diagnosed linguistics professor, picked up over 500 theaters and a place on the top ten after seven weeks of release, earning an estimated $2.7 million and pushing the $5 million budgeted production into minor profits. However, Hot Tub Time Machine 2 seemed doomed from the start and did not disappoint, with an estimated $2.4 million only providing $10.2 million in total earnings to the $14 million production before it likely drops from the list.
Weekend Box Office (February 27th – March 1st)
- Focus…$19.1 million
- Kingsman: The Secret Service…$11.8 million
- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water…$11.2 million
- Fifty Shades of Grey…$10.9 million
- The Lazarus Effect…$10.6 million
- McFarland, USA…$7.8 million
- American Sniper…$7.7 million
- The DUFF…$7.2 million
- Still Alice…$2.7 million
- Hot Tub Time Machine2…$2.4 million
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