Superbowl weekend was rough for the movies with lower than usual grosses all around. Was it the polar vortex? Who dared venture out of their homes?!
| Weekend Box Office Estimates February 1st-3rd (ESTIMATES) 🔺 = New or Expanded Theater Count / ★= Recommended |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
PLATFORM / LIMITED excluding prev. wide |
 Miss Bala |
 Free Solo |
| 1 Glass $9.5 (cum. $88.6) Review |
1🔺 They Shall Not Grow Old $2.4 (cum. $10.7) Review ★ |
| 2 The Upside $8.8 (cum. $75.5) |
2🔺 Free Solo $1.3 (cum. $14.9) Review, Biggest Doc Hits ★ |
| 3 🔺 Miss Bala $6.7 *NEW* |
3🔺 Ek Ladki Ko Dekha... $600k *NEW* |
| 4 Aquaman $4.7 (cum. $323.5) Review, Podcast |
4🔺 Cold War $564k (cum. $2.1) Review, Biggest Foreign Hits ★ |
| 5 Into the Spider-Verse $4.4 (cum. $175.2) Review, Annie Award Winner ★ |
5🔺 Destroyer $234k (cum. $1.2) Review ★ |
Miss Bala had a rough opening weekend, unable to unseat three week old Glass and four week old The Upside to claim the top spot. Two notes on Oscar boosts: Green Book is now finally on its way to becoming the hit everyone originally assumed it would be when they saw it at festivals, having roared back to life last week and holding super well this week (it's at #6 for the past two weeks -- the highest its ever climbed on the charts after almost three months in theaters indicating that word of mouth has finally caught up with it. In specialty theaters Free Solo and Cold War have also done a superb job capitalizing on their Oscar nods. Free Solo was all but finished with its run a few weeks ago but is suddenly reenergized, this weekend becoming the second highest doc grosser of 2018 by topping RBG. Meanwhile Cold War has been cruising up the foreign film charts and is now the 8th biggest subtitled hit of 2018, just now defeating last year's Oscar champ A Fantastic Woman.