Weekend Wrap-Up: January Ends on a Quiet Note
January 29, 2019
2019 has been off to a slow start and that certainly didn’t change this past weekend. Glass and the holdovers held up better than expected, but the two new releases, The Kid Who Would Be King and Serenity, both went nowhere. This led to the weekend box office haul falling below the $100 million mark at just $97 million. This is 25% lower than last weekend and 31% lower than the same weekend last year, when Maze Runner: The Death Cure opened with $24.17 million. That’s more than this week’s two releases will earn combined. It’s going to be another bad week for 2019. Year-to-date, 2019 is already down by $100 million; $764 million to $871 million and it’s not going to get better in February.
Glass only fell 53% during its sophomore stint, which is great for a sequel. It added $18.88 million to its running tally, which now sits at $73.43 million after just two weeks of release and it will soon become the first release of 2019 to get to $100 million domestically.
The Upside remained in second place with $11.94 million over the weekend for a three-week total of $62.85 million. It could also get to $100 million domestically, if it can remain in more than 3,000 theaters for a couple of more weeks. There’s not a lot of competition opening this coming weekend, but the weekend after that might push this film out of too many theaters to get to the century mark.
Aquaman remained steady in third place with $7.27 million over the weekend for a total of $316.47 million after six weeks of release. Its theater average is getting low enough that it will start losing theaters rapidly, but the film is already a monster hit, so that won’t matter now.
The Kid Who Would Be King only managed fourth place with $7.17 million in 3,521 theaters over the weekend, which puts it barely above the Mendoza Line. Its reviews are much better than its box office numbers. Even its B plus from CinemaScore, which is weak for a family film, is much better than its box office numbers. That said, live-action family films are a risk.
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse remained in fifth place over the weekend and it might not be the last weekend it stays there. It was down just 19% to $6.11 million giving it $169.00 million after seven weeks of release.
Serenity only managed eighth place with $4.42 million during its opening weekend. Its reviews are bad, its CinemaScore is worse, and it opened below the Mendoza Line. It will disappear from theaters quickly.
The only other film in the sophomore class was Dragon Ball Super: Broly, which fell 69% to $3.01 million over the weekend for a two-week total of $28.22 million. This sounds like a dramatic drop-off, but considering its a post-holiday weekend and Dragon Ball Super: Broly is a niche market film, this isn’t too bad. It will certainly encourage more studios to look for more Anime titles to bring to theaters in the future.
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