Box Office (February 24 - 26, 2017) and audiences were both wildly happy with the new horror film Get Out which soared to number one over the Oscar frame with a sensational $30.5M launch, according to studio estimates. the R-rated fright flick averaged a stellar $10,976 from 2,781 locations and is showing all the signs of a bright future ahead. Reviews were positive across the board and paying crowds polled by CinemaScore gave an A- grade which is extraordinary for the horror genre. went up 17% on Saturday from Friday's opening day figure which includedA dip would be normal. The film scored the biggest Oscar weekend opening in seven years. Broad appeal is also helping the Universal hit. Studio data showed that the audience was split evenly between males and females and those over 25 made up 51% of the crowd. 39% were black, 36% were white, and 17% wereGet Out tells of a black man meeting his white girlfriend's parents during a weekend getaway only to
face surprisingly horrific circumstances. Jordan Peele, known for his comedy series Key & Peele, made his writing and directing debut here. Get Out is the latest moneymaker for Blumhouse which also produced Split which held the number one spot for three weeks this year. In both cases, a small budget plus creative freedom were given to a talented filmmaker to come up with a scary movie with a unique concept that works. Out cost under $5M to produce and reaching a domestic gross of $100M can't be ruled out right now. and Get Out were made for just $14M and are on track to deliver combined worldwide grosses of more Dropping to second place after a two-week run on top was the toon hit The LEGO Batman Movie which fell a reasonable 42% to an estimated $19M pushing the total up to $133M. markets have added $93M to date giving Warner Bros. $226M worldwide with China opening this Friday. John Wick: Chapter Two is holding
up nicely for an action sequel and collected an estimated $9M, off 45%, putting Lionsgate at $74.4M. The big budget Matt Damon epic The Great Wall declined by 53% in its sophomore frame to an estimatedUniversal has grossed $34.4M from North America, a less important market for this pic, but has hit $300M worldwide so far with Japan still to come in April. The studio scored another $100M hit this weekend with Fifty Shades Darker which crossed into nine-digit territory with its weekend take of an estimated $7.7M. Off a sharp 62%, the R-rated romance has banked $103.6M domestically and $328.3M globally. with the comedy Fist Fight which took in an estimated $6.4M, down 48%, for $23.3M after its second round. Oscar weekend saw audiences flock to see high profile Best Picture contenders before the big night. the top grossing of the nine nominees for the film industry's top honor, slipped only 19% to an estimated $5.9M boosting Fox's cume to $152.8M.
Front-runner La La Land suffered no drop from last weekend and collected an estimated $4.6M lifting LionsgateGlobal stands at $369M which is the studio's best ever outside of the Hunger Games and Twilight The profitable fright smash Split dropped 43% to an estimated $4.1M for a new sum of $130.8M for Universal. more than three times its opening weekend gross. has done an incredible $221.2M worldwide to date. Rounding out the top ten was Best Picture nominee Lion with an estimated $3.8M, down only 9%, and $42.8M overall for The Weinstein Two new releases opening in over 2,000 theaters each were utterly rejected by audiences and debuted outside the top ten with dismal numbers. had the animated offering Rock Dog which bowed to an estimated $3.7M and weak $1,781 average. an estimated $1.5M debut for the action title Collide and a puny $753 average. Both earned lackluster marks from critics. The top ten films grossed an estimated $99.7M which was up 9% from last
Elsewhere, Hollywood blockbusters dominated the list of the most commercially successful films of 2014, with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in third place grossing £32.63 million.The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies followed in fourth and fifth places respectively, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Highest-grossing movies of 2014 But there was some relief from US sequels with the home-grown film Paddington, which beat off competition from The Wolf of Wall Street and Gone Girl to claim a place at number 10.The film, which stars Hugh Bonneville and Nicole Kidman with Ben Whishaw voicing the title lead, has already sparked talk of a possible franchise.Box office revenue was down by almost £57.86 million from 2013, which saw Despicable Me 2 named the highest-grossing film of the year. The top-grossing films of 2014 at the UK box office1. The Lego Movie - £34.27m2. The Inbetweeners 2 - £33.33m3. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - £32.63m4.