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Posted February 4, 2019 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box Office Weekend: ‘Glass’ Threepeats

For the third consecutive week, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, Glass, finished on top of the weekend box office. This week, the film added another $9.5 million to lift its three-week total to $88.7 million.

glass posterSimilarly, the Kevin Hart/Bryan Cranston vehicle The Upside held onto second place for a third week in a row as it took in $8.9 million over the weekend to give the comedy/drama a four-week total of $75.6 million. Third place belonged to Miss Bala which, despite mostly negative reviews, brought in $6.7 million for releasing company Sony in its first week of release.

Aquaman dropped one spot from third to fourth this weekend earning $4.8 million and raising its seven-week domestic total to $323.6 million. Incidentally, the film has made a staggering $1.1 billion worldwide. Holding onto the fifth spot for yet another week was the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with $4.4 million, giving it an eight-week total of $175.3 million.

Also holding onto to its spot from last week was the recently Oscar-nominated Green Book, which finished in sixth place with $4.3 million and a twelve-week cumulative total of $55.8 million. Dropping from fourth to seventh was The Kid Who Would Be King, which finished just behind the aforementioned Green Book with $4.2 million in its second week as it inches towards departing the top ten altogether.

Eighth place belonged solely to A Dog’s Way Home, which added $3.5 million to give the family-film a four-week total of $35.9 million. Escape Room dropped another spot this weekend and finished in ninth place with $2.9 million, giving the horror film a five-week total of $52.1 million.

Finally, the World War I documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old, from Peter Jackson made the most of its wide release this weekend to push its way into the top ten with $2.4 million, giving it a seven-week total of $10.7 million. Both Serenity and Dragon Ball Super: Broly departed the top ten over the box office weekend after they both clung onto spots last week. 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.

Next weekend should see another shakeup as there will be arguably four films with the potential to crack the top ten being released in The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, What Men Want, Cold Pursuit, and The Prodigy.

Weekend Box Office (February 1st – February 4th)

  1. Glass…$9.5 Million
  2. The Upside…$8.9 Million
  3. Miss Bala…$6.7 Million
  4. Aquaman…$4.8 Million
  5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse…$4.4 Million
  6. Green Book…$4.3 Million
  7. The Kid Who Would Be King…$4.2 Million
  8. A Dog’s Way Home…$3.5 Million
  9. Escape Room…$2.9 Million
  10. They Shall Not Grow Old…$2.4 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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