RankTitleDomestic Gross (Weekend)Worldwide Gross (Cume)Week #Percentage ChangeBudget1Glass$9,535,000$198,955,1003-49.5%$20M2The Upside$8,850,000$81,690,1284-25.9%$37.5M3Miss Bala$6,700,000$6,700,0001N/A$15M4Aquaman$4,785,000$1,106,972,2407-34.1%$200M5Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse$4,410,000$347,286,0698-27.8%$90MNotable Box Office StoriesGlass - What is it with Samuel L. Jackson having #1 movies three weeks in a row and the third week it's one of the worst Box Office weekends ever? I feel bad for the man, he deserves more legit wins than that. Whatever the case, Glass was still #1 this week with $9.5M. That means no film this weekend made over $10M at the box office and the combined total of every film out this weekend was the lowest weekend haul since August 2017 when, drumroll....The Hitman's Bodyguard had its third weekend in a row at #1 with $10.5M. Now I don't really blame Jackson for all of this, if anything he deserves praise as the man who keeps people coming when the options are low. And this weekend was tough to bare on multiple counts outside of a weak field of choices. Obviously it was Superbowl weekend and while the game was a perfectly boring as this box office it still ate up lots of people's time. But Friday and Saturday were also bad, mostly due to the polar vortex which still left a lot of people either snowed out or at very least exhausted and probably wanting a day inside after fighting with the snow through the work week. And we are just in that classically shitty time of the year, where holdovers compete with middling not that exciting new releases. As for Glass itself it's about to hit $200M worldwide which is a very nice goal for the $20M budgeted film. It's still far underperforming Split domestically but doing well overseas and as the finale of a trilogy it doesn't have any lingering franchise concerns to worry about. It can be safely shuffled of its #1 perch next weekend and put out to puddle pasture, unless somehow the box office next weekend is even worse. However with four new wide releases in four entirely different genres (action, animation, horror, and comedy) it should have at least one winner...I hope. Perhaps the nation will just be too devastated by the brutal betrayal of Sweet Victory to want to watch Taraji hear how thirsty dudes are all the time.Miss Bala - Oh Miss Bala how much you did not seem to make anyone care about you this weekend. What few people did trek out to the theater this weekend did not rush to see the one new wide release which opened at #3 to $6.7M. The film, which is a remake of the 2011 Mexican film of the same name, was hoping to be a major launching point for star Gina Rodriguez who has struggled to define herself outside of her role as Kolka. The film was also the first major studio film for OG Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke since 2011's Red Riding Hood. The film received absolutely terrible reviews and despite some targeted marketing in Spanish speaking urban areas failed to attract any attention as well as compete with the major forces I mentioned in my Glass write-up. Ultimately with such a low $15M budget this should scrimp up enough (especially in other Spanish speaking countries) to break even but both Rodriguez and Hardwicke will have to keep trying to find their way to much loftier projects.Oscar Movie Round-Up - Not much to report on this very very slow week. Green Book maintained in the top 10 at #6 with $4.3M. The film has now made over $10M since its Academy Award nominations, pushing it closer to the major audience hit it was promoted as inevitably being when it opened on Thanksgiving but ended up underperforming. Now the film is in stronger space financially, passing $50M domestic and $80M worldwide. Meanwhile, while RBG seems to be the frontrunner for best doc, Nat Geo still isn't done yet as Free Solo had another expansion this weekend, adding 382 theaters to make $1.3M for the weekend. The film has now passed $15M so even if it doesn't win its now the second biggest release ever for Nat Geo and their first major hit in 5 years. It seems unlikely that Cold War will best the monolith $15M indie film Roma for best Foreign Language Film but a surprise Best Director nomination for the film probably helped expand it on people's radar. The Polish film added 100 theaters for a total of over 200 to come in with $564K for the weekend. Not an amazing pull but I'd put it at like Ant-Man and the Wasp levels for a black and white Polish film. Finally The Wife continues to try to make people care about the very likely Best Actress win in its future but still very few care as the film was in 200 theaters this weekend but only made $162K, a per theater average of $807. Can we just retroactively give Glenn Close the win for Fatal Attraction and move on with our lives? Must we be forced to give it to her for The Wife? Basically what I'm saying is, I don't want to watch it and please don't make me.Films Reddit Wants to FollowThis is a segment where we keep a weekly tally of currently showing films that aren't in the Top 5 that fellow redditors want updates on. If you'd like me to add a film to this chart, make a comment in this thread.TitleDomestic Gross (Weekly)Domestic Gross (Cume)Worldwide Gross (Cume)BudgetWeek #A Star is Born (2018)$980,282$203,588,149$403,588,149$36M15Bohemian Rhapsody$4,019,481$198,496,306$751,885,454$52M11Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald$830,416$158,238,989$644,638,989$200M9Holmes and Watson$4,459,231$30,025,153$37,085,114$42M4Notable Film ClosingsTitleDomestic Gross (Cume)Worldwide Gross (Cume)BudgetVenom$213,515,506$855,002,841$100MThe Hate U Give$29,719,483$32,237,069$23MMortal Engines$15,951,040$81,651,040$100MWelcome to Marwen$10,763,520$12,463,520$39MAs always r/boxoffice is a great place to share links and other conversations about box office news.Also you can see the archive of all Box Office Week posts at r/moviesboxoffice (which have recently been updated).My Letterboxd: http://bit.ly/2rSmMyn via /r/movies http://bit.ly/2GoOISL
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