With a $4.5 million budget, Get Out took the top of the box office chart this weekend with a $30.5 million take, making it a solid debut for Universal that will have a pretty good post-theatrical life as well. Horror films of this nature populate the charts throughout the year instead of being held for the fall Halloween season like they used to and that’s working out well to bolster the books with some solid moneymakers.
Other new films this week did not fare anywhere near as well. Rock Dog charted at 11th for Lionsgate with a $3.7 million take and is exepected to disappear quicker than it took to write this sentence. Even worse was Collide from Open Road Films as it did a piddling $539,000 for the weekend.
The rest of the week had most films plugging away, building on top of their vacation week numbers for a lot of them. LEGO Batman held at second with a $19 million bump to bring it to $133 million while John Wick added another $9 million and has $51 million overseas as well. The Great Wall may not do well here with just under 49 million for the weekend but its overseas numbers continue to be strong. We’ve got a few films doing decently as the Academy Awards arrived so we’ve seen La La Land holding on as well as Hidden Figures. Fist Fight falls apart fast here with a $6.3 million take while Fifty Shades Darker finally cross the $100 million mark.
China continues to be an interesting market to view with what it does; xxx3 has now done $152 million in China and $285 million total overseas. This weekend saw the debut of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter there and did $94.3 million – which means the franchise just had a jolt of new life put into it.
