{"id":75647,"date":"2016-02-08T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=75647"},"modified":"2019-09-16T21:45:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T04:45:43","slug":"box-office-feb-8-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/box-office-feb-8-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: Super Bowl Slump"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second consecutive week, the final ‘Kung Fu Panda’ entry topped the box office charts. One of the three new movies had a so-so weekend, while the other two bombed. As usual, blame is being placed on the Super Bowl, but that excuse only carries a bad movie so far.
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‘Kung Fu Panda 3<\/strong>‘ may have finished in the top spot again with $21 million, but it fell 49% in attendance. Family flicks usually only fall in the 30% or low 40% ranges, so this comes as a bit of a hit. At this point in its run, ‘Kung Fu Panda 2<\/a>‘ had also fallen 49%. However, that was after a $47.6 million summer opening weekend. ‘Panda 2’ also had $100 million in the bank at this point, while the ten-day total for ‘Panda 3′ is just $69 million.<\/p>\n

It looks like the Coen brothers’ latest comedy just might be a little too inside baseball for mainstream moviegoers. Playing at 2,232 locations, ‘Hail, Caesar!<\/strong>‘ debuted in second place with $11.4 million. Despite being adored by critics, audiences simply didn’t turn out. This is the lowest opening for a Coen film playing on this many screens. Fortunately, the movie only cost $22 million to produce and should earn that back in domestic ticket sales. <\/p>\n

After playing wide for over a month, ‘The Revenant<\/strong>‘ is still bringing in the dough thanks to word-of-mouth and Oscar buzz. It finished the weekend in the #3 spot and added another $7.1 million to its domestic total, which now sits at $149.7 million. The Leonardo DiCaprio picture has grossed $326.1 million worldwide. <\/p>\n

After eight weeks, ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/strong>‘ is still crossing milestones. The film’s $6.8 million tally pushed its domestic total beyond the $900 million mark. Worldwide, it also crossed the $2 billion mark, making it only the third film to ever reach that feat.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the Top 5 was the latest Nicholas Sparks romance picture, ‘The Choice<\/strong>‘, which very few people chose to see. The $6 million debut is the worst opening ever for a Sparks movie. No other Sparks movie has opened below $10 million, so this comes as a massive blow. Fortunately, it only cost $10 million to produce.<\/p>\n

As poorly as ‘The Choice’ performed, at least it didn’t bomb as hard as ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/strong>‘. From nearly 3,000 locations, the hybrid Jane Austen\/zombie flick only grossed $5.2 million. That’s a terrible per-screen average of $1,774. Produced with a $28 million budget, the film’s impending international release will determine whether it becomes profitable or not.<\/p>\n

Two of last weekend’s openers tanked in their second weeks. As if the tenth place debut of ‘Fifty Shades of Black<\/strong>‘ wasn’t bad enough, its sophomore weekend saw a 63% decline in attendance. The movie’s $2.1 million weekend gives it a ten-day total of $9.4 million.<\/p>\n

Last week, the troubled Western Jane Got a Gun<\/strong>‘ opened on 1,200 screens but barely hit the #17 spot at the box office. This weekend, it fell a whopping 85% in attendance and landed in the #33 spot. The $127,000 total resulted in a minuscule per-screen average of $123. <\/p>\n

Considering that Natalie Portman stars in ‘Jane Got a Gun’ and produced ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’, this has been a difficult couple weeks for her career. <\/p>\n

Top 10:<\/h2>\n

1. ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ (Fox) – $21,000,000<\/p>\n

2. ‘Hail, Caesar!’ (Universal) – $11,440,000<\/p>\n

3. ‘The Revenant’ (Fox) – $7,100,000<\/p>\n

4. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ (Buena Vista) – $6,890,000<\/p>\n

5. ‘The Choice’ (Lionsgate) – $6,085,000<\/p>\n

6. ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ (Screen Gems) – $5,200,000<\/p>\n

7. ‘The Finest Hours’ (Buena Vista) – $4,715,000<\/p>\n

8. ‘Ride Along 2’ (Universal) – $4,520,000<\/p>\n

9. ‘The Boy’ (STX) – $4,098,000<\/p>\n

10. ‘Dirty Grandpa’ (Lionsgate) – $4,050,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the second consecutive week, the final ‘Kung Fu Panda’ entry topped the box office charts. One of the three new movies had a so-so weekend, while the other two bombed. As usual, blame is being placed on the Super Bowl, but that excuse only carries a bad movie so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":75650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[178,8711,8654,8717,2284,1548,8726,8332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100940,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75647\/revisions\/100940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}