DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda 3 left the newcomers in the dust and remained in first place over Super Bowl weekend. Meanwhile, The Force Awakens became the first movie in history to break $900 million at the domestic box office.
Kung Fu Panda 3 led the pack in its second weekend with $21.2 million (-48.5%). With $69.2 million domestically in ten days, Kung Fu Panda 3 is now trailing Kung Fu Panda 2's ten-day gross by 25.3% and the original's ten-day gross by 40.9%. THR reports a budget around $145 million which shouldn't be a problem to cover with the ticket sales from foreign markets, but two consecutive and sizable drops might prevent a fourth adventure with Jack Black's Po the Panda.
Hail, Caesar! debuted in second with $11.3 million. The 17th film to have a Coen directing (not including their contributions to two anthology films) was made for $22 million. That's not a big opening weekend, but that's not a big budget, so the PG-13 comedy should have no problem covering that, especially since Coen brothers' films always have a foreign presence with four of their five films from the past ten years making most of their box office from foreign territories (2010's True Grit is the outlier). It will be interesting if Hail, Caesar! gets a boost from Valentine's Day dates looking for a comedy that's not as "dumb" as Zoolander 2 or as "girly" as How to Be Single.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens remained in third with $6.97 million (-37.3%). The eighth theatrically-released Star Wars film became the first movie to pass $900 million domestically when it pulled in $1.7 million on Friday to bring its domestic total to $900.8 million. With $906.0 million domestically and $1.1 billion from foreign markets, The Force Awakens has become the third film to top $2 billion worldwide with its $2.008 billion total.
The Revenant dropped to fourth with $6.93 million (-45.7%). Leonardo DiCaprio's survival western has grossed $149.5 million domestically and $176.9 million from foreign territories against a $135 million budget.
The Choice debuted in fifth with $6.0 million, the lowest opening for a Nicholas Sparks adaption. Deadline reports Lionsgate acquired the film for $10 million so there's not much to lose here. It may get a bump from Valentine's Day next weekend from being the only drama in theaters that's not the romantic The Revenant.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies debuted in sixth place with $5.3 million. Its domestic prospects are as dead as the characters in the film, but foreign audiences might, just might, be able to save this one. There's only a $22 million budget to cover, and similar "classic story turned ridiculous action movies" like I, Frankenstein and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters were able to pull in $52.0 million and $170.6 million respectively from foreign markets. Both of those movies opened way above the $5.3 million opening of PPZ domestically, but PPZ doesn't need foreign grosses as large as those to break even for Screen Gems.
The Finest Hours landed in seventh with $4.8 million (-53.1%). After that massive drop, there's not much more left domestically than the $18.4 million the film has made so far. The Chris Pine thriller has only pulled in $5.8 million from a handful of foreign markets with an $80 million budget to cover (according to NYT). Disney is, and always will be, fine, but this certainly doesn't look good for leading man Chris Pine.
Ride Along 2 dropped to eighth with $4.5 million (-45.9%). The sequel is tracking 26.6% below the performance of the original Ride Along from 2014. The budget was only $40 million, and Ride Along 2 has pulled in $100.2 million worldwide so far. A third adventure for Ice Cube and Kevin Hart is certainly on the table.
The Boy dropped to ninth with $4.08 million (-45.9%). In three weeks, the $10 million horror film has pulled in a solid $26.8 million domestically.
Dirty Grandpa fell to tenth with $4.04 million (-46.8%). The budget for the Zac Efron-Robert De Niro comedy is $11.5 million, according to 411MANIA, and with $29.3 million domestically, that would at least cause the film to break even if that budget is accurate.
In 13th place sits Fifty Shades of Black with $2.0 million (-64.7%). That second weekend drop falls in line with the 63.8% second weekend drop of the last Wayans film A Haunted House 2. If Fifty Shades of Black holds over like that film, which rode a $8.8 million opening to $17.3 million domestically, it will get to a measly $11.5 million domestically against its $5 million budget. That would make it a very small success.
Finally, all the way down in 35th(!) place is Jane Got a Gun. The troubled Natalie Portman western was thrown into 1,210 theaters last weekend by The Weinstein Company and only grossed $835k. This weekend, the film lost 179 of those theaters and took in $137k (-83.5%!!!). If that sounds so bad it could be a record, that's because it almost is. It's actually the third biggest second weekend drop for a film in wide release (a movie in at least 600 theaters). In first is 2005's Undiscovered ($676k opening -86.4% to $91k) and in second is 2007's Slow Burn ($778k opening -84.7% to $137k). Jane Got a Gun has racked up $1.3 million domestically so far against a $25 million budget.
Next weekend sees the release of Fox's Deadpool, Warner Bros. How to Be Single, and Paramount's Zoolander 2.
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