What did you see this weekend? Kung Fu Panda 3 had a strong debut on the typically slow final session of January. Without a vocal fanbase for the series, the sequel still performed well thanks to family audiences hungry for something for the whole family - like me and you they've exhausted their Star Wars repeats and have no idea what the hell Norm of the North is.
Did you take the whole family to Kung Fu Panda 3?
Jane Got a Gun, well-documented as a troubled production, has arrived with about the quietest thud you could imagine. Weinstein Co. has quietly snuck it into release after endless delays at its former distributor Relativity continually shuffled its debut. Over the weekend, there were plenty of "It opened??" responses with nary an actual reaction to the film - a sure sign of the bare bones publicity the film was was granted.
Elsewhere, ocean disaster The Finest Hours and spoof Fifty Shades of Black were more damp and cold than wet and wild. Hours is set aback while fighting for air on large format screens with The Revenant and Star Wars still getting the prime locations.
ROOM's box office has found its strong!Holdovers had another strong weekend, with even last week's genre entries The 5th Wave and The Boy having atypically modest drops. Room continues to receive the biggest boost from its nominations, and surpased Amy this weekend to become A24's third highest grosser yet.Other Oscar nominees Brooklyn, Anomalisa, and The Big Short barely dropped from last weekend as wider audiences cram them in before the ceremony.
BOX OFFICE WIDE
01 Kung Fu Panda 2 $41 new
02 The Revenant $12.4 (cum. $138.1) Costumes, Production Design
03 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $10.8 (cum. $895.4) Review, Podcast, BB-8
04 The Finest Hours $10.3 new
05 Ride Along 2 $8.3 (cum. $70.7)
BOX OFFICE LIMITED
01 2016 Oscar Nominated Short Films $.5 new 112 screens
02 Ip Man 3 $.5 (cum. $1.6) 115 screens
03 45 Years $.4 (cum. $1.3) 94 screens Capsule, Nathaniel's Best Actress Ballot
04 Carol $.4 (cum $11.4) 313 screens Oscar Snub, Adapting Highsmith, First Impressions, Nathaniel's Best Actress Ballot
05 Anomalisa $.3 (cum $1.9) 169 screens Podcast, Review, Festival Capsule