Glass Takes the Weekend While Dragon Ball Super: Broly is in the Top Five

Glass

Glass won the three day weekend with an estimated $40.6 million over the three-day weekend. It’s expected to get to about $47 million by the time the four day holiday weekend wraps up. The film was estimated to bring in $50 million according to the studio, but with a budget of just $20 million, things are generally fine. The three-day opening is the fourth largest January opening of all-time and third largest Martin Luther King weekend performance.

The film received a “B” CinemaScore from the opening day audience and currently has a 35% rating on RottenTomatoes. The audience was 54% male and 65% aged 25 or orlder.

Internationally the film earned $48.5 million from 55 markets. that brings its worldwide total to $89.1 million.

In second place was The Upside which brought in an estimated $15.7 million from the three day weekend and expected to be about $19.5 million for the 4-day weekend.

In third place was a surprise with Dragon Ball Super: Broly (the first comic based film of 2019). The film is close with Aquaman and is expected to beat that film and is estimated between $9.3 million and $10.7 million for the weekend. The studio isn’t reporting domestic grosses so this one is definitely estimates. On the lower end, the film will be in fourth place. The film opened on Wednesday so is estimated to have earned around $21 million domestically since then. Internationally, the film is in its seventh week and earned an estimated $5.3 million from 18 markets for an international total of $65.8 million for a worldwide total of $87 million.

Aquaman earned an estimated $10.3 million domestically to bring that total to $304.3 million. It also added $14.3 million from 79 international markets to bring that total to $759.1 million internationally. Worldwide the film has earned $1.06 billion and will likely pass The Dark Knight Rises to become to the top grossing DC Comics adaptation worldwide.

Rounding out the top five was Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which had a small drop of 19.8% from the previous weekend and earned $7.25 million for the three day and around $9 million for the for day. The domestic total is $158.3 million. Internationally the film added $4.7 million to bring that total to $164.6 million for a worldwide total of $322.9 million.

We’ll be back in an hour for a deeper dive into 2018’s comic adaptations at the theater.


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