Split maintained its number one position for the third weekend in a row over the relatively sleepy Super Bowl weekend with a gross of $14.5 million. Its domestic gross is now up to an impressive $98.7 million and this is the first time Shyamalan has had a film top the weekend box office three weeks in a row since 1999’s The Sixth Sense and will shortly be his fifth film to top $100 million at the domestic box office. Combined with an estimated $44 million internationally, the film’s worldwide total currently stands at $142.7 million.
Horror gets the claim the first two spots in the top five with Rings landing in second with $13 million. The placement is about the only good news for the film as this is the lowest opener of the franchise. The film cost $25 million to make and with a dismal 5% rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes and a lackluster “C-” opening day CinemaScore, I don’t think this will have the legs it needs to turn a profit. The one upside is that it did open to $15.2 million overseas which could help it out a bit in the end.
You’ll find the other new wide release all the way down in ninth place with The Space Between Us grossing an estimated $3.8 million. The film was tracking in the $8-10 million range so this is a pretty disastrous result. The film received negative reviews with an 18% rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes. Opening day audiences seemed to like it a bit more with an “A-” CinemaScore but it won’t be enough to save the film.
Check out the rest of the top ten below:
February 3-5
- Split – $14.5 million
- Rings – $13 million
- A Dog’s Purpose– $10.8 million
- Hidden Figures– $10.1 million
- La La Land– $7.4 million
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter– $4.5 million
- Sing– $4,08 million
- Lion $4,06 million
- The Space Between Us– $3.8 million
- xXx: Return of Xander Cage– $3.7 million
