Three new films opened in wide release this weekend, and they all basically made the same unremarkable amount of money. Otherwise, this week’s box office is more of the same.
In its fifth weekend (and third in wide release), The Revenant topped the chart for the first time and also crossed $100 million. It’s currently the 26th highest-grossing release of 2015, if that’s the kind of information you care about. The most financially successful movie of all time came in at #2, as Star Wars: The Force Awakens actually climbed back up a spot from last week. Meanwhile, last week’s box office king Ride Along 2 fell pretty hard to #3.
The films at #4 through #6 are this week’s new releases; however, their results are so close to each other that their relative positions could potentially shift slightly once the final numbers come in. Dirty Grandpa, currently at #4, didn’t do as well as I’d expected — which is perhaps a good thing? Right on its heels were The Boy and The 5th Wave, which both did decently for January genre dumps. None of the three should last too long, though. If you want to check any of these out, do it soon.
At #7 was 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, which fell three slots, but still did pretty good business with the second-smallest decline of the top ten. Daddy’s Home came in at #8 and is well within reach of $150 million — which I think is amazing considering that this is a film I’ve never heard anyone talk about ever. Animated flop Norm of the North, meanwhile, fell three slots as well, ending the weekend at #9.
The Big Short is at #10, and is holding on very well. Word-of-mouth is clearly very strong for this one, and that will likely be the case for a bit. Expect this one to hang on for another month at least. It’s the current frontrunner to win Best Picture at next month’s Oscars, so it may very well be sticking around for a while longer than that.
In platform-release land, Room finally expanded into wide release after earning major Oscar nominations last week, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress — and it didn’t exactly make a splash, but it’s doing solid business and should continue to build as word-of-mouth and awards prospects intensify. Fellow Best Picture nominees Brooklyn and Spotlight continued to bubble below the surface, doing very solid business more than three months into their runs. Less fortunate, meanwhile, was The Danish Girl, which also went wide this week and then totally collapsed. I’m talking disastrous numbers here. It seems that missing out on a Best Picture nomination killed this film’s chances completely. Expect it to disappear rather quickly at this point.
| TW | LW | Title | Gross (est.) | Cumulative (est.) | Weeks in Release |
| 1 | 2 | The Revenant | $16,000,000 | $119,192,522 | 5 |
| 2 | 3 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | $14,257,000 | $879,289,346 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | Ride Along 2 | $12,960,000 | $59,110,040 | 2 |
| 4 | N | Dirty Grandpa | $11,525,000 | $11,525,000 | 1 |
| 5 | N | The Boy | $11,260,000 | $11,260,000 | 1 |
| 6 | N | The 5th Wave | $10,700,000 | $10,700,000 | 1 |
| 7 | 4 | 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi | $9,750,000 | $33,483,429 | 2 |
| 8 | 5 | Daddy’s Home | $5,270,000 | $138,780,265 | 5 |
| 9 | 6 | Norm of the North | $4,100,000 | $14,296,203 | 2 |
| 10 | 8 | The Big Short | $3,500,000 | $56,713,841 | 7 |
Source: Box Office Mojo
What did you see this weekend?
