Box Office Week: Split is #1 again for an impressive second week with $26.2 mil. Controversy didn't harm A Dog's Purpose much, opening okay at #2 with $18.3 mil. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter bombs, opening at #4 with $13.8 mil. Finally, both La La Land and Hidden Figures pass $100 mil domestic.

Rank	Title	Domestic Gross (Weekend)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Week #
1	Split	$26,268,685	$101,698,775	2
2	A Dog's Purpose	$18,386,020	$23,386,020	1
3	Hidden Figures	$14,000,000	$104,865,899	6
4	Resident Evil: The Final Chapter	$13,850,000	$78,350,000	1
5	La La Land	$12,050,000	$223,509,372	8

Notable Box Office Stories:

• It seems M. Night has found those magic domestic legs he once had in his heyday as Split once again defied expectations dropping only 34%, remaining at #1 for the second weekend in a row with $26.2 mil. This already puts the film past Shyamalan's previous film The Visit for total domestic gross in just two weeks and puts it just under The Purge: Election Year as the 6th highest grossing Blumhouse release. It needs to be stated just how incredible this weekend drop is for a horror film. Last year's Conjuring 2 also opened to $40 mil but drop 63% for it's second weekend. Don't Breathe was considered to have some of the best domestic legs ever for a horror film and it dropped 40% on it's second weekend. While Split isn't performing at the same domestic hold level as The Sixth Sense (though let's face it, we'll probably never see a hold like that again) it's definitely performing at the level of Signs and way better than The Village. It will be very interesting to see how Split will do against direct competition against the horror franchise entry Rings next weekend, but already it has been an amazing success for Shyamalan. Quite frankly horror films sold on an original premise don't perform like this. I really do think Shyamalan has tapped back into the audience he lost many years ago.

• This week saw two Universal films overcome controversy and succeed. First was Split, which has been criticized a lot for its portrayal of mental illness and sexual abuse. The other and more surprising one is A Dog's Purpose, which opened at #2 with $18.3 mil. For those unaware a week or so ago a video was leaked by TMZ that showed a German Shepard seemingly being scared and forced to do a water stunt. The video itself has been controversial, with groups like PETA saying it shows obvious mistreatment of animals while those involved with the film note that the video was edited to make it look worse than it was. Whether it was the leaker or TMZ's intention to do so, the timing of the video was very clearly intended to destroy the box office receipts of this film as the footage was taken in 2015 but only released last week. However either the issues with the video I mentioned or the fact it just didn't reach many people has shown that despite the PETA protests the film ended up doing well. While $18.3 mil is on the low end of expectations (Universal was hoping for somewhere around $25 mil) it's still a pretty solid opening for a film that cost only $22 mil. While marketing for the film has been huge, they should probably end up making back the film's budget and marketing when all is said and done. Helps the film scored an A on Cinemascore, and while the lower opening may have kept it from the possible $100 mil high bar Universal was probably hoping for, the film is probably looking at a $60 mil domestic haul when all is said and done.

• Perhaps it may in fact be the final entry as Resident Evil: The Final Chapter had the worst domestic opening of the franchise, opening at #4 with $13.8 mil. That's even lower than the first Resident Evil, which opened in 2002 to $17.7 mil. However the franchise has never been a major domestic player, with the highest grossing entry Afterlife only earning $60.1 mil domestic. These films have always been solid international players and Final Chapter is no exception, earning $64.5 mil so far overseas including a whopping $33.8 mil in Japan. That significant international haul has pushed the entire franchise to around $994 mil lifetime worldwide total (though Sony is claiming it has already passed $1 bil). Still with such a lackluster domestic haul it's likely Sony will indeed pack it in and call this franchise dead, even with its relatively low $40 mil budget.

• The McConaughissance continues to dwindle as his latest film Gold was another disappointment at the box office, opening at #10 with $3.4 mil. The film was the latest in the Weinstein Oscar never was after last weeks The Founder. The film was billed as a possible Best Actor contender for McConaughey who gained weight and shaved his head for the role, but instead ended up being the 52nd worst opening for a film on over 2,000 screens. The film didn't fare much better on Cinemascore, earning a pretty weak B- so don't expect this one to stick around too much. After failures like Free State of Jones and Sea of Trees last year it may be that McCoaughey won't be getting the leading man roles he was hoping for earlier in the decade if this downward streak continues.

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Oscars Nominations Box Office Effects:

Oscar nominations matter and they really do help films in terms of box office, especially the week after. This week I'll talk about all the Oscar nominees that saw major bumps in box office.

• Hidden Figures - With the way things have been going for the film it probably didn't need the Best Picture nomination, but it probably helped the film drop only 11%, another amazing weekend to weekend drop. Granted this film did drop but at such a high spot on the Top 5 for 3rd weekend in a row, it's still insanely impressive. This pushes the film past $100 mil domestic, something that took La La Land 8 weeks to do versus 4 for it (really 3 counting just wide release). Hopefully this film will be a good reminder to Hollywood that films about people of color and women have a major place in the marketshare still.

• La La Land - After a historic 14 nominations (tied with Titanic and All About Eve for most ever) it seems pretty clear that La La Land not winning Best Picture would be an upset. Clearly Lionsgate was expecting great things for the film's nominations as they added 1,200 theaters. This helped the film rise 43% from last weekend, coming in at #5 with $12 mil. This pushed the film past $100 mil domestic this week, which also means it is now the 9th highest grossing musical domestically of all time, passing Dreamgirls. The film has also passed $200 mil worldwide, mostly led recently by the fantastic $18.3 mil run in the UK.

• Lion - While Lion maintained it's #14 spot and added no new theaters, it saw a 35% uptick in sales coming in with $2.3 mil. Clearly the film benefited from a somewhat surprising Best Picture nomination. It will be interesting to see if the Weinsteins increase the theater count soon in the coming weeks.

• Manchester by the Sea - With major nominations in directing, writing, acting and of course Best Picture, Manchester managed a small comeback jumping from #22 to #15 wit $2 mil. Amazon added 625 theaters to profit off the nominations, which helped the film pass $40 mil domestic. The film mostly saw its major run in Novemeber but should earn a little extra from these nominations, and could possibly benefit well overseas if Casey Affleck wins best Actor.

• Moonlight - Probably the film that most financially needed the bump, Moonlight came in at #18, $1.5 mil. A24 added 600 theaters, making the first time the film was in over 1,000 theaters for its run and it gave the film the best weekend for it yet. With 8 nominations including Best Picture this could be a big boom for the film with a lot of people hearing about it for the first time this week.

• Arrival - If there was a film closest to being closed before the bump it's Arrival which jumped from #28 to #19 with $1.47 mil. Paramount is clearly most aggressively trying to use the Best Picture nomination effect, as they added 1000 theaters and are promoting a new cut with 8 extra minutes. The reason is Paramount hoping to get past $100 mil domestic for the lifetime run (currently the film is at $97.3 mil). Passing that mark will mean much bigger revenue for the film in terms of VOD/streaming/TV channel sales.

• Fences - The Best Picture nominee with the smallest bump (besides Hell or High Water which already closed a few months ago) was Fences which came in at #20 with $1.41 mil. Paramount added 180 theaters which gave the film a slight bump of 16.1% which was the lowest rise for all the nominees. Still this pushed the film past $50 mil domestic.

• Jackie - The only film nominated for Oscars but not for Best Picture that rose was Jackie which came in at #25 with $665 thousand. Fox added 270 theaters which represented a 75% climb, mostly led clearly by the nomination of Natalie Portman who is considered neck and neck with Emma Stone for Best Actress.

• Hacksaw Ridge - Despite being out for 13 weeks, Hacksaw Ridge still saw an increase jumping to #28 with $415 thousand. Lionsgate added 375 theaters, clearly trying to milk a little extra from the nominations in Picture, director, and actor. However the film is probably going to close soon after the Oscars barring any major upsets.

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Films Reddit Wants to Follow

This is a segment where we keep a weekly tally of currently showing films that aren't in the Top 5 that fellow redditors want updates on. If you'd like me to add a film to this chart, make a comment in this thread.

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget	Week #
Your Name	N/A	$331,600,000	Unk	22
Moonlight	$17,650,379	$17,725,222	$5 mil	15
Doctor Strange	$231,633,133	$664,633,133	$165 mil	13
Arrival	$97,325,199	$175,879,547	$47 mil	12
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them	$231,853,222	$807,553,222	$180 mil	11
Moana	$240,115,596	$530,115,596	$150 mil	10
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	$520,049,573	$1,030,049,573	$200 mil	7
Sing	$257,405,085	$463,705,085	$75 mil	6

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Notable Film Closings

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget
The Secret Life of Pets	$368,384,330	$875,457,937	$75 mil
A Monster Calls	$3,740,823	$40,919,166	$43 mil
Loving	$7,710,234	$7,817,067	$9 mil
Nocturnal Animals	$10,663,357	$28,450,387	$22.5 mil
Bad Santa 2	$17,782,176	$23,229,371	$26 mil
Allied	$40,098,064	$109,098,064	$85 mil
Office Christmas Party	$54,767,494	$114,455,140	$45 mil
Sully	$125,070,033	$238,470,033	$60 mil

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Submitted January 30, 2017 at 11:36PM by mi-16evil http://ift.tt/2kGC6t7