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by Brad Brevet
March 3, 2019
Universal and DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Lionsgate's release of Tyler Perry's At Madea Family Funeral and retain the weekend's # 1 spot at the box office even though Perry's final outing as Madea outperformed expectations with the fourth best opening in the nine-film franchise. Focus's Greta In the beginning of the week, while Universal's Best Picture winner, Green BookOscar night win.
With an estimated $ 30 million, Universal's How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World dipped -45% in its second weekend, pushing the film's domestic cume to $ 97.6 million after ten days in release. The film is still in the pipeline, but it's still a bit better than the second film in the franchise, but it's still outpacing its predecessors at the same point in the release cycle. looking less and less likely it can maintain that momentum.
Internationally, Hidden World added $ 52 million this weekend, the bulk of which came from China where it was estimated $ 33.4 million. The film is now $ 275 million for $ 375 million. The film still has eight markets left to release, the last of which Japan on August 23.
In second place is Tyler Perry's ninth film in the Madea movie franchise and the multi-hyphenate is reportedly making this his final Madea feature. If that holds true and Lionsgate can not talk to him in a tenth pic, the titular character is going out with a bang, delivering an estimated $ 27 million early, the fourth largest in the franchise. The film also received an "A-" CinemaScore from the weekend of audiences and if past performances from Madea titles means anything, look for the film to finish right around $ 60 million if not a bit higher. The movie's opening weekend was 67% female and 78% of the crowd was age 25 and over, with previous releases.
Fox's Alita: Battle Angel finished with an estimated $ 7 million in third place, pushing the film's domestic $ 72 million as it begins its third week in release. The film also added another $ 40.4 million internationally over $ 81.2 million, giving the $ 170 million total production to $ 350 million.
WB's The LEGO Movie 2 took fourth place with an estimated $ 6.6 million his domestic cume now stands at $ 91.6 million. The film also added another $ 6.1 million nationwide this weekend for an international budget that now exceeds $ 61 million and has a worldwide tally that stands at $ 152.8 million.
Rounding out the top five is last weekend Oscar winner Best Picture, Universal's Green Book, which saw a + 121% jump and brought in an estimated $ 4.7 million, pushing the film's domestic cume over $ 75 million. Additionally, Lionsgate and Amblin's release of the $ 55 million overseas film has generated $ 31 million from 63 markets this weekend, for an international total of $ 112.1 million and a worldwide total over $ 188 million.
Outside of the top five, in the heart of the world, where is it? Greta, which debuted with an estimated $ 4.58 million. The performance is within Mojo's expectations, but with 2,411 rentals in play that's only $ 1,902 per rental. The film received a "C-" CinemaScore from the audience and played to a 55% female audience with 29% of the audience aged 35 and older. The film also opened in Australia and New Zealand this weekend, bringing in an estimated $ 400,000.
In limited release, Neon's documentary Apollo 11 IMAX screens with an estimated $ 1.65 million for a per screen average of $ 13,750. The movie will expand everywhere next weekend.
Additional limited releases include Well Go's Fury, which brought in $ 145.400 from 14 rentals ($ 10,386 PTA); A24's Climax brought in $ 121.655 from five screens for a chart-topping $ 24,331 per theater average; Music Box's Transit Delivered $ 35.368 from two theaters; vertical's Giant Little Ones opened in a rental with an estimated $ 13,500; IFC's The Wedding Guest debuted in four theaters with $ 20.156 ($ 5,039 PTA); Ammo's Chokehold brought in $ 3,900 from three theaters ($ 1,300 PTA); Oscilloscope's re-release of The Hours and Times opened with an estimated $ 2,250 from one theaters; and Blue Fox's Saint Judy debuted with $ 41.234 from 55 theaters ($ 750 PTA).
Lastly, Disney's Ralph Breaks the Internet finally topped $ 200 million domestically this weekend after having already outperformed the first film, which reached $ 189.4 million domestically back in 2012. Internationally, the Ralph $ 320 million is now just shy of $ 520 million. The first film finished with over $ 471 million globally.
All 2019 continues to dig itself, currently pacing -26% behind 2018 and is actually pacing behind each of the last five years at the domestic box office. As a result, next weekend's release of Marvel's Captain Marvel will be watched closely as it is set to begin with 4,100+ rentals with tracking as of last week targeting as much as $ 140 million for the three-day. Will it be the start of a major turnaround?
You can check out this weekend right here and we'll be updating our charts with weekend news on Monday afternoon.
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