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.
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.
Weekend Box Office (January 18th – January 20th)
- Glass…$40.6 Million
- The Upside…$15.7 Million
- Dragon Ball Super: Broly…$10.7 Million
- Aquaman…$10.3 Million
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse…$7.3 Million
- A Dog’s Way Home…$7.1 Million
- Escape Room…$5.3 Million
- Mary Poppins Returns…$5.2 Million
- Bumblebee…$4.7 Million
- On the Basis of Sex…$4.0 Million
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