Monday Update: Universal’s animated sequel How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden Worldled the box office for a second frame with $30.0M. Its -45.4% sophomore weekend decline was milder than its predecessor’s -50.0% decline.
Lionsgate’s comedy Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeraldebuted in second place with $27.0M. That’s the fourth-best opening weekend of the nine Madea films.
Elsewhere at the box office:
- Universal’s Green Book, coming off an Academy Award for Best Picture that took many by surprise, more than doubled its previous weekend’s gross to earn $4.5M in sixth place. That ties its previous best weekend rank, having previously ranked #6 for two weekends in late January and early February.
- Focus Features’ thriller Gretabegan in eighth place with $4.4M, about in line with expectations.
- Neon’s moon landing documentary Apollo 11started in 15th place with $1.6M, raising hopes that 2019 could be as successful for documentaries at the box office as 2018 was for the genre.
Comparisons
Total box office this extended weekend was $113.6M.
That’s down -11.3% behind last weekend and also down -23.8% behind this same weekend last year, when Black Panther led for a third frame with $66.3M.
Year-to-date box office stands at $1.55B. That’s -25.7% behind this same date last year, down from -24.6% after last weekend.
However, that comparison may be a bit unfair, since 2019 hasn’t seen a release nearly as big as Black Panther. Most analysts are still predicting 2019’s box office to ultimately beat 2018’s.
Demographics
A full demographic breakdown of the top 30 movies this weekend, courtesy of BoxofficeProfile by Vertigo, will be posted here once available.
Monday’s Weekend Actuals (Domestic)
FRI, MAR. 1 – SUN, MAR. 3
| # | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | $30,028,540 | -45% | 4,286 | 27 | $7,006 | $97,678,815 | 5 | Universal / DreamWorks Animation |
| 2 | Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral | $27,062,332 | — | 2,442 | — | $11,082 | $27,062,332 | 1 | Lionsgate |
| 3 | Alita: Battle Angel | $7,221,417 | -41% | 3,096 | -706 | $2,332 | $72,452,725 | 3 | 20th Century Fox |
| 4 | The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part | $6,600,258 | -32% | 3,458 | -375 | $1,909 | $91,660,298 | 6 | Warner Bros. |
| 5 | Fighting With My Family | $4,661,991 | -40% | 2,855 | 144 | $1,633 | $14,916,612 | 3 | MGM |
| 6 | Green Book | $4,573,320 | 115% | 2,641 | 1388 | $1,732 | $75,782,931 | 16 | Universal Pictures |
| 7 | Isn’t It Romantic | $4,514,602 | -37% | 3,325 | -119 | $1,358 | $40,168,605 | 3 | Warner Bros. |
| 8 | Greta | $4,481,910 | — | 2,411 | — | $1,859 | $4,481,910 | 1 | Focus Features |
| 9 | What Men Want | $2,763,886 | -47% | 2,018 | -371 | $1,370 | $49,704,890 | 4 | Paramount |
| 10 | Happy Death Day 2U | $2,456,240 | -50% | 2,331 | -881 | $1,054 | $25,222,850 | 3 | Universal Pictures |
| 11 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | $2,151,246 | 143% | 2,404 | 1661 | $895 | $187,437,456 | 12 | Sony / Columbia |
| 12 | The Upside | $2,011,496 | -37% | 1,607 | -541 | $1,252 | $102,800,116 | 8 | STX Entertainment |
| 13 | A Star is Born | $1,854,207 | 204% | 1,235 | 490 | $1,501 | $212,883,546 | 22 | Warner Bros. |
| 14 | Cold Pursuit | $1,656,170 | -48% | 1,765 | -555 | $938 | $29,918,299 | 4 | Lionsgate / Summit |
| 15 | Run The Race | $1,313,619 | -39% | 1,075 | 222 | $1,222 | $4,150,666 | 2 | Roadside Attractions |
| # | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apollo 11 | $1,607,040 | — | 120 | — | $13,392 | $1,607,040 | 1 | Neon |
| 2 | Bohemian Rhapsody | $961,926 | 54% | 839 | 415 | $1,147 | $214,453,523 | 18 | 20th Century Fox |
| 3 | Glass | $892,320 | -50% | 756 | -690 | $1,180 | $109,462,570 | 7 | Universal |
| 4 | The Favourite | $813,941 | 46% | 742 | 454 | $1,097 | $33,205,980 | 15 | Fox Searchlight |
| 5 | Everybody Knows | $467,520 | 49% | 209 | 138 | $2,237 | $1,263,256 | 4 | Focus Features |
| 6 | Aquaman | $458,206 | -40% | 434 | -307 | $1,056 | $333,658,285 | 12 | Warner Bros. |
| 7 | Total Dhamaal | $439,983 | -56% | 209 | 7 | $2,105 | $1,736,909 | 2 | FIP |
| 8 | The Prodigy | $422,837 | -62% | 533 | -798 | $793 | $14,376,402 | 4 | Orion Pictures |
| 9 | Arctic | $365,049 | -27% | 268 | 11 | $1,362 | $1,632,558 | 5 | Bleecker Street |
| 10 | They Shall Not Grow Old | $353,968 | -35% | 368 | -80 | $962 | $17,000,075 | 11 | Warner Bros. |
| 11 | Vice | $258,428 | -59% | 262 | -440 | $986 | $47,578,038 | 10 | Annapurna |
| 12 | Ralph Breaks the Internet | $225,327 | -40% | 204 | -202 | $1,105 | $200,188,017 | 15 | Disney |
| 13 | Mary Poppins Returns | $211,693 | 9% | 245 | 11 | $864 | $171,224,585 | 11 | Disney |
| 14 | Bumblebee | $157,679 | -28% | 157 | -71 | $1,004 | $127,150,766 | 11 | Paramount Pictures |
| 15 | If Beale Street Could Talk | $137,228 | -8% | 126 | -1 | $1,089 | $14,643,242 | 12 | Annapurna |
| 16 | Cold War | $134,119 | -55% | 128 | -131 | $1,048 | $4,358,690 | 11 | Amazon Studios |
| 17 | Never Look Away | $130,955 | -14% | 122 | 42 | $1,073 | $666,367 | 6 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| 18 | A Dog’s Way Home | $127,406 | -53% | 211 | -206 | $604 | $41,384,359 | 8 | Sony Pictures |
| 19 | Escape Room | $124,581 | -38% | 158 | -106 | $788 | $56,327,186 | 9 | Sony Pictures |
| 20 | Miss Bala | $108,295 | -70% | 146 | -369 | $742 | $14,870,702 | 5 | Sony Pictures |
| 21 | The Mule | $108,171 | -39% | 166 | -69 | $652 | $103,635,501 | 12 | Warner Bros. |
| 22 | The Kid Who Would Be King | $54,187 | -19% | 111 | -77 | $488 | $16,662,792 | 6 | 20th Century Fox |
| # | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Furie | $156,120 | — | 14 | — | $11,151 | $156,120 | 1 | Well Go USA Entertainment |
| 2 | Climax | $119,423 | — | 5 | — | $23,885 | $119,423 | 1 | A24 |
| 3 | The 2019 Oscar Nominated Short Films | $108,588 | -82% | 97 | -318 | $1,119 | $3,434,596 | 4 | ShortsTV w/ Magnolia Pictures |
| 4 | Capernaum | $73,873 | -42% | 58 | -57 | $1,274 | $1,371,848 | 12 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| 5 | On The Basis Of Sex | $62,555 | -45% | 96 | -33 | $652 | $24,587,797 | 10 | Focus Features |
| 6 | Sonchiriya | $60,170 | — | 70 | — | $860 | $60,170 | 1 | PackYourBag Films |
| 7 | Birds of Passage | $57,552 | 57% | 31 | 21 | $1,857 | $158,737 | 3 | The Orchard |
| 8 | Stan & Ollie | $47,005 | -63% | 71 | -57 | $662 | $5,070,010 | 10 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| 9 | Saint Judy | $39,275 | — | 55 | — | $714 | $39,275 | 1 | Blue Fox Entertainment |
| 10 | The Wife | $35,147 | -76% | 78 | -126 | $451 | $9,522,418 | 29 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| 11 | Uri: The Surgical Strike | $34,511 | -53% | 15 | -23 | $2,301 | $4,154,947 | 8 | PackYourBag Films |
| 12 | Transit | $31,931 | — | 2 | — | $15,966 | $31,931 | 1 | Music Box Films |
| 13 | To Dust | $22,361 | 20% | 23 | 6 | $972 | $98,770 | 4 | Good Deed Entertainment |
| 14 | Lords of Chaos | $20,099 | -63% | 35 | -35 | $574 | $219,846 | 4 | Gunpowder & Sky |
| 15 | Shoplifters | $19,666 | -50% | 22 | -20 | $894 | $3,201,088 | 15 | Magnolia Pictures |
| 16 | CATVIDEOFEST 2019 | $19,526 | 30% | 3 | 1 | $6,509 | $58,759 | 3 | Oscilloscope |
| 17 | Woman At War | $18,370 | — | 5 | — | $3,674 | $18,370 | 1 | Magnolia Pictures |
| 18 | The Wedding Guest | $18,266 | — | 4 | — | $4,567 | $18,266 | 1 | IFC Films |
| 19 | The Last Resort | $16,182 | 4% | 13 | 6 | $1,245 | $119,671 | 11 | Kino Lober Films |
| 20 | The Invisibles | $15,886 | -34% | 16 | -2 | $993 | $232,955 | 6 | Greenwich Entertainment |
| 21 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | $15,429 | -68% | 19 | -27 | $812 | $8,786,407 | 20 | Fox Searchlight |
| 22 | Ruben Brandt, Collector | $12,242 | 82% | 15 | 12 | $816 | $33,979 | 3 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| 23 | Destroyer | $7,220 | 78% | 15 | 11 | $481 | $1,519,936 | 10 | Annapurna Pictures |
| 24 | Creed II | $6,524 | -59% | 25 | -14 | $261 | $115,702,538 | 15 | MGM / Warner Bros |
| 25 | Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People | $5,686 | — | 1 | — | $5,686 | $5,686 | 1 | First Run Features |
| 26 | Serenity | $5,019 | -39% | 15 | -7 | $335 | $8,540,680 | 6 | Aviron Pictures |
| 27 | Police Story and Police Story 2 | $4,756 | 56% | 2 | 0 | $2,378 | $75,190 | 5 | Janus Films |
| 28 | The Sower | $4,128 | — | 2 | — | $2,064 | $10,561 | 1 | |
| 29 | Wrestle | $3,932 | -35% | 2 | 1 | $1,966 | $12,235 | 2 | Oscilloscope Laboratories |
| 30 | Burning | $3,762 | -35% | 3 | 0 | $1,254 | $714,957 | 19 | Well Go USA Entertainment |
| 31 | The Image Book | $3,536 | 302% | 6 | 3 | $589 | $81,257 | 6 | Kino Lorber Films |
| 32 | Styx | $3,420 | — | 1 | — | $3,420 | $7,221 | 1 | Film Movement |
| 33 | Sorry Angel | $2,463 | 1% | 4 | 3 | $616 | $16,351 | 3 | Strand Releasing |
| 34 | The Heiresses | $2,257 | 129% | 5 | 2 | $451 | $53,141 | 7 | Distrib Films US |
| 35 | Hotel By The River | $1,700 | -50% | 2 | 0 | $850 | $17,267 | 3 | Cinema Guild |
| 36 | Hale County This Morning, This Evening | $1,305 | -37% | 5 | -1 | $261 | $107,428 | 25 | Cinema Guild |
| 37 | The Hours and Times | $1,273 | — | 1 | — | $1,273 | $1,273 | 1 | Oscilloscope Laboratories |
| 38 | What Is Democracy? | $910 | -59% | 2 | 0 | $455 | $33,545 | 7 | Zeitgeist Films |
| 39 | The World Before Your Feet | $855 | -90% | 2 | -4 | $428 | $250,936 | 15 | Greenwich Entertainment |
| 40 | Touch Me Not | $515 | — | 1 | — | $515 | $13,554 | 8 | Kino Lorber |
| 41 | The Gospel of Eureka | $359 | — | 1 | — | $359 | $15,034 | 4 | Kino Lorber |
| 42 | The Wild Pear Tree | $298 | -87% | 1 | -3 | $298 | $23,595 | 5 | Cinema Guild |
Just a week out from the release of Marvel’s surefire mega-blockbuster Captain Marvel, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World enjoyed one last weekend at the top of the domestic box office with a solid $30 million in its sophomore frame. But thanks to the better-than-expected debut of Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral, the win was quite a bit narrower than expected.
Dipping 45% from its franchise-best $55 million debut, The Hidden World actually fell to second place on Friday against newcomer A Madea Family Funeral, but strong matinee business from families on Saturday pushed it high enough to reclaim the No. 1 spot. The Dreamworks Animation production now has $97.7 million in the bank, pacing it about 6% ahead of the first How to Train Your Dragon and 3% ahead of How to Train Your Dragon 2 at the same point in their respective runs. Look for the threequel to cross $100 million by next weekend.
In second place, Lionsgate’s Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral grossed an estimated $27 million, putting it a notch or two above industry projections going into the weekend. Indeed, with a strong $9.2 million Friday, fans of the long-running franchise clearly came out of the gate for what has been billed as the final entry in the series. That opening puts it in fourth place among all Madea films, just below 2016’s Boo! A Madea Halloween ($28.5 million) and just ahead of 2012’s Madea’s Witness Protection ($25.3 million). Reviews for the film were par for the course for the franchise (it’s currently at 25% on Rotten Tomatoes), but fans, as usual, liked it much better, with opening day audiences awarding it an “A-” Cinemascore. If this indeed turns out to be the last Madea installment, it concludes the run of an astoundingly-successful series that never failed to keep its core fanbase coming back for more.
Third place went to the third weekend of Alita: Battle Angel, which brought in an estimated $7 million for a cume of $72.2 million to date – a disappointing total for the Fox release, which cost upwards of $200 million by some estimates. Still, its overseas performance has been much more robust (more on that below), thereby taking some of the edge off of its underperformance Stateside.
In fourth place, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part brought in an estimated $6.6 million, giving the animated sequel a $91.6 million total after four weeks of release. That’s a pretty severe underperformance for the sequel, which has made less than half what the first installment did at the same point in its run.
Rising six spots to fifth place was Green Book, which added 1,388 locations following its Best Picture win at the Oscars last Sunday. With an estimated $4.7 million, the total for the Universal drama now stands at an impressive $75.9 million after 16 weeks – a remarkable total when you consider that it grossed just $5.5 million in its first weekend of wide release way back in November and never rose above the $5 million threshold on any subsequent weekend. Notably, this marks Green Book‘s ninth non-consecutive weekend in the Top 10.
MGM’s Fighting With My Family landed in sixth place with an estimated $4.69 million, giving the Dwayne Johnson wrestling dramedy a total of $14.9 million after three weeks of release (and two weeks of wide release). Also in its third weekend, Warner Bros./New Line’s Isn’t It Romantic brought in an estimated $4.64 million in seventh, giving the Rebel Wilson rom-com a total of $40.1 million so far.
The weekend’s other new wide release, Focus Features’ horror-thriller Greta, failed to make much of an impression on the chart, debuting in eighth place with an estimated $4.6 million. That’s more or less in line with expectations (or even a tad below), and a rather weak performance overall for a film that debuted in 2,409 locations. Reviews were mixed (it has a 58% on Rotten Tomatoes), and the “C+” Cinemascore suggests audiences were similarly lukewarm on the film. For comparison purposes, the debut came in just slightly ahead of this year’s Serenity, which opened to $4.4 million and will finish its run with about $8.5 million in North America.
Rounding out the Top 10 were What Men Want and Happy Death Day 2U, which brought in an estimated $2.7 million and $2.5 million in their fourth and third weekends, respectively. The Taraji P. Henson comedy now stands at a healthy $49.6 million, while the Universal horror sequel has brought in a weak $25.2 million to date.
Limited Release:
Debuting on 120 IMAX screens this weekend was the NEON documentary Apollo 11, which grossed an estimated $1.7 million, giving it a per-screen average of nearly $14,000. The film about the historic 1969 moon landing has a one-week exclusive on IMAX screens before expanding to additional theaters.
Internationally-renowned director Gaspar Noe’s latest film, the psychedelic dance-horror film Climax, boasted the weekend’s highest per-screen average in its limited debut, grossing just over $121K on five screens for a PSA of over $24K. It will expand to several more markets next weekend before going wide on March 15.
Overseas Update:
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World grossed an estimated $52 million internationally this weekend. That number includes a $33.4 million opening weekend in China, where the second film opened to $26.3 million (the first installment wasn’t released in the country). That brings its overseas cume to $277.7 million and its global total to $375.4 million after about two months of play internationally.
Alita: Battle Angel brought in an estimated $40.4 million this weekend from 81 markets, including $24.2 million in its second weekend in China. The total for the James Cameron-produced sci-fi now stands at $278.2 million internationally – or nearly four times its tally in North America. Its worldwide cume is $350.4 million through Sunday.
Sunday’s Studio Weekend Estimates (Domestic)
FRI, MAR. 1 – SUN, MAR. 3
| # | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | $30,050,000 | -45% | 4,286 | 27 | $7,011 | $97,700,275 | 5 | Universal / DreamWorks Animation |
| 2 | Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral | $27,050,000 | — | 2,442 | — | $11,077 | $27,050,000 | 1 | Lionsgate |
| 3 | Alita: Battle Angel | $7,000,000 | -43% | 3,096 | -706 | $2,261 | $72,231,308 | 3 | 20th Century Fox |
| 4 | The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part | $6,615,000 | -32% | 3,458 | -375 | $1,913 | $91,675,040 | 6 | Warner Bros. |
| 5 | Green Book | $4,710,000 | 121% | 2,641 | 1388 | $1,783 | $75,919,611 | 16 | Universal Pictures |
| 6 | Fighting With My Family | $4,691,284 | -40% | 2,855 | 144 | $1,643 | $14,945,905 | 3 | MGM |
| 7 | Isn’t It Romantic | $4,645,000 | -35% | 3,325 | -119 | $1,397 | $40,299,003 | 3 | Warner Bros. |
| 8 | Greta | $4,585,000 | — | 2,411 | — | $1,902 | $4,585,000 | 1 | Focus Features |
| 9 | What Men Want | $2,700,000 | -49% | 2,018 | -371 | $1,338 | $49,641,004 | 4 | Paramount |
| 10 | Happy Death Day 2U | $2,520,000 | -48% | 2,331 | -881 | $1,081 | $25,286,610 | 3 | Universal Pictures |
| 11 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | $2,100,000 | 138% | 2,404 | 1661 | $874 | $187,386,210 | 12 | Sony / Columbia |
| 12 | The Upside | $2,070,000 | -35% | 1,607 | -541 | $1,288 | $102,858,620 | 8 | STX Entertainment |
| 13 | A Star is Born | $1,885,000 | 209% | 1,235 | 490 | $1,526 | $212,914,339 | 22 | Warner Bros. |
| 14 | Cold Pursuit | $1,650,000 | -49% | 1,765 | -555 | $935 | $29,912,129 | 4 | Lionsgate / Summit |
| # | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apollo 11 | $1,650,000 | — | 120 | — | $13,750 | $1,650,000 | 1 | Neon |
| 2 | Bohemian Rhapsody | $975,000 | 56% | 839 | 415 | $1,162 | $214,466,597 | 18 | 20th Century Fox |
| 3 | Glass | $895,000 | -49% | 756 | -690 | $1,184 | $109,465,250 | 7 | Universal |
| 4 | The Favourite | $825,000 | 48% | 742 | 454 | $1,112 | $33,217,039 | 15 | Fox Searchlight |
| 5 | Total Dhamaal | $460,000 | -54% | 208 | 6 | $2,212 | $1,756,926 | 2 | FIP |
| 6 | The Prodigy | $413,718 | -63% | 533 | -798 | $776 | $14,367,283 | 4 | Orion Pictures |
| 7 | Free Solo | $364,100 | 150% | 238 | 148 | $1,530 | $16,947,781 | 23 | National Geographic Entertainment |
| 8 | Arctic | $362,124 | -27% | 268 | 11 | $1,351 | $1,629,633 | 5 | Bleecker Street |
| 9 | Vice | $249,411 | -61% | 262 | -440 | $952 | $47,569,021 | 10 | Annapurna |
| 10 | Ralph Breaks the Internet | $233,000 | -38% | 204 | -202 | $1,142 | $200,195,690 | 15 | Disney |
| 11 | Mary Poppins Returns | $206,000 | 6% | 245 | 11 | $841 | $171,218,892 | 11 | Disney |
| 12 | Bumblebee | $150,000 | -31% | 157 | -71 | $955 | $127,143,087 | 11 | Paramount Pictures |
| 13 | Cold War | $143,616 | -52% | 128 | -131 | $1,122 | $4,368,187 | 11 | Amazon Studios |
| 14 | If Beale Street Could Talk | $137,546 | -8% | 126 | -1 | $1,092 | $14,643,560 | 12 | Annapurna |
| 15 | Never Look Away | $136,474 | -11% | 122 | 42 | $1,119 | $671,886 | 6 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| # | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Furie | $145,400 | — | 14 | — | $10,386 | $145,400 | 1 | Well Go USA Entertainment |
| 2 | Climax | $121,655 | — | 5 | — | $24,331 | $121,655 | 1 | A24 |
| 3 | Capernaum | $72,087 | -44% | 58 | -57 | $1,243 | $1,370,062 | 12 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| 4 | The Iron Orchard | $65,450 | 43% | 42 | 34 | $1,558 | $121,140 | 2 | mTuckman Media |
| 5 | Birds of Passage | $64,652 | 77% | 31 | 21 | $2,086 | $165,837 | 3 | The Orchard |
| 6 | Stan & Ollie | $52,926 | -58% | 71 | -57 | $745 | $5,075,931 | 10 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| 7 | The Wife | $36,942 | -75% | 78 | -126 | $474 | $9,524,213 | 29 | Sony Pictures Classics |
| 8 | Transit | $35,368 | — | 2 | — | $17,684 | $35,368 | 1 | Music Box Films |
| 9 | To Dust | $23,872 | 28% | 23 | 6 | $1,038 | $100,217 | 4 | Good Deed Entertainment |
| 10 | The Wedding Guest | $20,156 | — | 4 | — | $5,039 | $20,156 | 1 | IFC Films |
| 11 | Lords of Chaos | $18,668 | -65% | 28 | -42 | $667 | $218,415 | 4 | Gunpowder & Sky |
| 12 | Giant Little Ones | $13,500 | — | 1 | — | $13,500 | $13,500 | 1 | Vertical Entertainment |
| 13 | Ruben Brandt, Collector | $12,577 | 87% | 15 | 12 | $838 | $34,314 | 3 | Sony Pictures Classics |
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