Box Office Weekend: They Call Him Mr. Glass and Mr. Box Office

The latest film from writer/director M. Night Shyamalan, Glass, finished on top of the weekend box office with $40.6 million. While the total was a bit shy of the expectations set on the film, it was still a solid opening, and, assuming it does well enough on Monday (Martin Luther King Day), it will more than likely do decent enough business to become one of the largest January openings of all time.

Elsewhere, the comedy/drama The Upside, starring Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart, was displaced from the top spot it claimed last week despite adding another $15.7 million, which gave the film a two-week total of $44.0 million. A surprising entry to the top ten this week was the addition of Dragon Ball Super: Broly, which finished with a solid $10.7 million debut.

Finishing in fourth place with $10.3 million was Aquaman which has now topped $304.3 million in five weeks of release. The other super hero entry to this week’s top ten (unless you consider Transformers super heroes), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, finished directly behind Aquaman by adding $7.3 million to raise its six-week total to $158.3 million.

The family-friendly film A Dog’s Way Home saw its domestic total cut in half from its take last week as it brought in $7.1 million to bring its cumulative two-week total to $21.3 million and finish in sixth place, just behind the aforementioned animated adventure featuring multiple versions of everyone’s favorite webslinger.

The horror film Escape Room made $5.3 million to give it a three-week total of $40.7 million and possession of seventh place, just ahead of Mary Poppins Returns, which finished its fifth week of release adding another $5.2 to bring its grand total to $158.7 million.

Rounding out the top ten was the latest addition to the Transformers series, Bumblebee, which added $4.7 million to raise its five-week total to $115. 9 million. Finally, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biography, On the Basis of Sex, finished in the tenth spot with $4.0 million, giving the film a four-week total of $16.9 million.

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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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