{"id":54727,"date":"2017-01-16T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=54727"},"modified":"2017-01-16T13:10:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T21:10:59","slug":"box-office-hidden-figures-holds-top-spot-six-new-films-fail-find-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2017\/01\/box-office-hidden-figures-holds-top-spot-six-new-films-fail-find-audience.html","title":{"rendered":"Box office: Hidden Figures<\/i> holds on to the top spot while six new films fail to find an audience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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A drama about three African-American women who broke racial barriers in the early 1960s held on to the top spot at the box office on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, while half a dozen new wide releases failed to find an audience.<\/p>\n

Hidden Figures<\/b><\/i>, which focuses on three black women who worked at NASA in its early days, topped the chart for a second straight week with an estimated $20.5 million between Friday and Sunday<\/a> \u2014 a drop of only 10.3% since last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That raises the film\u2019s North American total to $54.8 million since its limited release three weeks ago. The film does not appear to have been released overseas yet.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, all of the week\u2019s new wide releases were flops to one degree or another.<\/p>\n

The top new film this week was The Bye Bye Man<\/b><\/i>, a horror film that landed in fifth place with $13.4 million. That\u2019s somewhat weak for a horror film, but the film could still turn a profit given that it reportedly cost only $7.4 million to produce.<\/p>\n

Right behind it was Patriots Day<\/b><\/i>, a dramatization of the Boston Marathon bombing that earned only $12 million in its first week in wide release. It had the smallest opening of the three true-story movies that director Peter Berg<\/a> has made with Mark Wahlberg (the others being Lone Survivor<\/i>, which opened to $37.8 million in 2014, and Deepwater Horizon<\/i>, which opened to $20.2 million last year<\/a>).<\/p>\n

That film was closely followed by the big-budget family film Monster Trucks<\/b><\/i>, which landed in seventh place with $10.5 million (easily the lowest opening of any film directed by Chris Wedge<\/a>, who had worked mainly in animation prior to this), and the Jamie Foxx thriller Sleepless<\/b><\/i>, which landed in eighth place with $8.5 million (the lowest opening of any Jamie Foxx film<\/a> since 2004\u2019s Breakin\u2019 All the Rules<\/i>).<\/p>\n

Two other films went into wide release this week and failed to crack the top ten.<\/p>\n

Live by Night<\/b><\/i> landed in 11th place with $5.4 million from 2,822 theatres \u2014 the worst opening of any film directed by Ben Affleck<\/a>, whose previous lowest was the $5.5 million that 2007\u2019s Gone Baby Gone<\/i> opened to in 1,713 theatres.<\/p>\n

And Martin Scorsese\u2019s long-awaited adaptation of Shusaku Endo\u2019s Silence<\/b><\/i> landed in 16th place with $1.9 million \u2014 one of the worst openings for a Scorsese film<\/a> in wide release since weekly box-office stats became a matter of public record.<\/p>\n

One film passed a significant milestone this week.<\/p>\n

Rogue One<\/b><\/i> landed in fourth place in its fifth week with $13.8 million, thereby raising its domestic cume to $498.9 million. Rogue One<\/i> has now passed Finding Dory<\/i> to become the top-grossing film of 2016<\/a> in North America, and it will soon be only the seventh movie ever<\/a> to gross over $500 million in North America.<\/p>\n

Rogue One<\/i> has earned another $481.1 million overseas and $980 million worldwide. It currently ranks 70th overseas<\/a> and 28th worldwide<\/a> on the all-time charts.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in other box-office news\u2026<\/p>\n

La La Land<\/b><\/i> earned $14.5 million and ranked second in its sixth week, thereby raising its domestic cume to $74.1 million. The film has earned another $54.8 million overseas, for a global total of $128.9 million.<\/p>\n

Sing<\/b><\/i> earned $13.8 million and ranked third in its fourth week, thereby raising its domestic cume to $233 million. The film has earned another $164.3 million overseas, for a global total of $397.3 million.<\/p>\n

Underworld: Blood Wars<\/b><\/i> earned $5.8 million and ranked ninth in its second week, thereby raising its domestic cume to $23.9 million. The film has earned another $46.8 million overseas, for a global total of $70.7 million.<\/p>\n

And Passengers<\/b><\/i> earned $5.6 million and ranked tenth in its fourth week, thereby raising its domestic cume to $90 million. The film has earned another $147.1 million overseas, for a global total of $237.1 million.<\/p>\n

Next week brings us Split<\/i>, xXx: The Return of Xander Cage<\/i>, The Resurrection of Gavin Stone<\/i> and the wide releases of The Founder<\/i> and 20th Century Women<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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