Box Office Week: Get Out far exceeds expectations opening at #1 with $33.4M. Other newcomers Rock Dog (#11, $3.7M) and Collide (#13, $1.5M) bomb. Also, Arrival has finally passed $100M domestic, and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter has surprise massive debut in China, earning $94M on opening weekend

Rank	Title	Domestic Gross (Weekend)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Week #
1	Get Out	$33,400,000	$33,400,000	1
2	The LEGO Batman Movie	$19,000,000	$226,006,578	3
3	John Wick: Chapter Two	$9,000,000	$125,512,700	3
4	The Great Wall	$8,700,000	$300,024,800	2
5	Fifty Shades Darker	$7,700,400	$328,335,615	3

*all numbers are for the four-day weekend

Notable Box Office Stories:

• Best Picture win wasn't the only surprise this weekend as Get Out almost doubled expectations to open with a fantastic $33.4 mil. In comparison the film made $13 mil more this weekend than the entire domestic run of director Jordan Peele's previous film he made, Keanu. The horror/satire received fantastic reviews from critics but analysts were worried a tense nation wouldn't want to explore those themes, with the studio and predictors place it more in the $18 mil range. Not only did the film far surpass that number, it also scored an incredible A- on Cinemascore, so any worries that the audience would reject the film seem to be quashed. For reference last year Don't Breathe got a B on Cinemascore and had some of the best legs ever for a horror film. You just don't see A- for horror, the only recent ones being the two Conjuring films and The Sixth Sense. This film also represents another incredible success for low-budget maestro Blumhouse, which saw Split doing gangbusters not more than a month earlier. With these two films Jason Blum has really stepped out of his usual comfort zone and given a lot of support to unique visions (as long as they come in perfectly on budget of course). In a time when Hollywood is struggling to figure out how to market and produce original ideas, Get Out and Split have shown that Blum is incredibly good at spotting original talent while giving a perfect buffer for the dozens of flops he makes each year you've never even heard of. It's not just Blum who profits, as the small scale budget means Jordan Peele is going to see a significant payday from the venture and is almost guaranteed a lot more opportunities than he would have had just a week ago. While next week sees the major release of Logan, the film should still hold well with great word of mouth and counter-progamming to bigger March releases.

• Did you know there was an animated movie released wide this week about a dog that wants to be a rock star? Chances are you didn't cause Rock Dog opened at #11 to a pitiful $3.7 mil. Much like last week's The Great Wall, this was a Chinese production that hoped to make bank in both the US and China but has failed in both. In China the film has only made $5.6 mil (though that could be due to the largest theater chain in China banning the film in their theaters to cause the film to fail for complicated financial reasons) and will likely make about the same here by the end of it. With almost no marketing the film didn't stand a chance and with no play whatsoever in China will be written off at a loss for sure.

• Speaking of things coming out you probably didn't know existed, Collide, the latest train-wreck from Open Road films has opened to an even worse spot of #13 with $1.5 mil making it the 6th worst wide release opening weekend of all time (btw the top ten of that list now only contains films that were released in the last ten years). The thriller starring Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones was clearly a shelfjob, as it barely had a scrap of marketing and was horribly savaged by critics and audiences. This joins the esteemed list of recent Open Road flops like Sleepless, Bleed for This, and Max Steel.

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	$331,336,802	Unk	26
Moonlight	$21,520,324	$25,209,781	$5 mil	19
Doctor Strange	$232,526,026	$675,908,710	$165 mil	17
Arrival	$100,305,463	$196,939,285	$47 mil	16
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them	$233,331,577	$811,831,577	$180 mil	15
Moana	$246,039,922	$580,439,922	$150 mil	12
La La Land	$140,860,065	$368,960,065	$30 mil	12
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	$529,462,544	$1,052,330,739	$200 mil	11
Sing	$267,634,450	$550,434,450	$75 mil	10
Split	$130,843,355	$221,243,355	$10 mil	6

Notable Film Closings

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Submitted February 28, 2017 at 03:16AM by mi-16evil http://ift.tt/2mwWrBM