{"id":90097,"date":"2018-02-26T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=90097"},"modified":"2018-02-25T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T02:22:41","slug":"box-office-feb-26-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/box-office-feb-26-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: Panther Annihilates All Competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel&#8217;s &#8216;Black Panther&#8217; is now the third-fastest film to hit $400 million, and has landed the all-time #2 record for biggest second weekend. Although its placement on the podium didn&#8217;t allow for any of the newcomer movies to make much noise, each performed well in its own right.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After ten days, thanks to a healthy $108 million second week and a low 47% decline, &#8216;<strong>Black Panther<\/strong>&#8216; has grossed $400 million domestically. &#8216;The Force Awakens&#8217; is the only movie to beat it to $400 million faster (eight days), and it&#8217;s currently tied with &#8216;Jurassic World&#8217; (ten days) as the second title to do so. &#8216;The Force Awakens&#8217; is also the only movie to have a bigger second week ($149.2 million) than &#8216;Black Panther&#8217;. With $304 million from overseas, Marvel&#8217;s latest has $704 million at the global box office and is already the studio&#8217;s fifth-highest domestic earner. (It&#8217;s only the tenth-highest worldwide MCU performer\u2026 so far.)<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. rolled the dice with the R-rated &#8216;<strong>Game Night<\/strong>&#8216;, and the risk paid off. Opening to $16.6 million, the comedy easily scored a second place finish. It also brought in $5.2 million from 22 international markets. Consider that it was produced on a budget of $37 million and has more markets to go, the film&#8217;s $21.8 million worldwide debut is a solid start.<\/p>\n<p>Although Sony&#8217;s &#8216;<strong>Peter Rabbit<\/strong>&#8216; is a very bland kids&#8217; movie, it&#8217;s thriving at the box office without any new family competition. The movie&#8217;s tame 28% third week drop-off resulted in a solid $12.5 million. After 17 days, its domestic earnings are already up to $71.2 million. The $50 million animation\/live-action hybrid has yet to expand overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount&#8217;s unmarketable &#8216;<strong>Annihilation<\/strong>&#8216; debuted in at #4 with $11 million. While that&#8217;s a solid domestic performance for a $40 million hard sci-fi thriller, we&#8217;re never going to have a proper gauge on its profitability. Netflix owns the domestic distribution. Without a gauge on Netflix&#8217;s per-movie profitability or any knowledge of how much the streaming service paid for international distribution rights, we&#8217;re in the blind here.<\/p>\n<p>Three-week-old &#8216;<strong>Fifty Shades Freed<\/strong>&#8216; rounded out the Top 5. Falling 60% from last weekend, it made $6.9 million. (Am I the only one who hears Bill &#038; Ted yell &#8220;69, dude!&#8221; when I read that?) The $55 million racy romance flick has collected $89.5 million over the last 17 days, which is down $57.8 million from where the first movie was at this point, and $14.2 million from the second. With $230.8 million at the foreign box office, its worldwide total ($320.3 million) is $60.7 million away from the bowing mark of the first sequel and $250.6 million away from the original movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Every Day<\/strong>&#8216;, Orion Picture&#8217;s first widely distributed film in over 20 years, managed to crack the Top 10 with a small but solid opening that was right in line with what the studio hoped. From 1,667 screens, the teen body-swapping drama made $3.1 million and locked in the #9 spot. Produced on a $4.9 million budget with a dinky marketing campaign, this is a perfect relaunch for the rebounding distributor.<\/p>\n<h2>Top 10:<\/h2>\n<p>1. &#8216;Black Panther&#8217; (Buena Vista) &#8211; $108,046,000<\/p>\n<p>2. &#8216;Game Night&#8217; (Warner Bros.) &#8211; $16,600,000<\/p>\n<p>3. &#8216;Peter Rabbit&#8217; (Sony) &#8211; $12,545,000<\/p>\n<p>4. &#8216;Annihilation&#8217; (Paramount) &#8211; $11,000,000<\/p>\n<p>5. &#8216;Fifty Shades Freed&#8217; (Universal) &#8211; $6,915,000<\/p>\n<p>6. &#8216;Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle&#8217; (Sony) &#8211; $5,650,000<\/p>\n<p>7. &#8216;The 15:17 to Paris&#8217; (Warner Bros.) &#8211; $3,600,000<\/p>\n<p>8. &#8216;The Greatest Showman&#8217; (Fox) &#8211; $3,400,000<\/p>\n<p>9. &#8216;Every Day&#8217; (Orion) &#8211; $3,103,996<\/p>\n<p>10. &#8216;Early Man&#8217; (Lionsgate) &#8211; $1,700,000<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel&#8217;s &#8216;Black Panther&#8217; is now the third-fastest film to hit $400 million, and has landed the all-time #2 record for biggest second weekend. 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