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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Takes First with a Franchise Best

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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World debuted in first place this weekend with a $55.5 million debut. That’s the largest debut of the year so far and a franchise best. The second film opened with $49.4 million in 2014. The film also earned $2.5 million from an event by Fandango earlier in the month to bring the domestic earning to a little over $58 million.

The film received an “A” CinemaScore and a 91% score on RottenTomatoes from critics. Men made up 51% of the audience the first film to have a majority male audience. The first two films were 45% and 47%. 39% of the audience was aged 25 or older with the first two films being 51% and 44%.

The film is actually in its seventh weekend in foreign markets and has brought in $216.9 million overseas. Worldwide that’s a total of $275 million off of a $129 million budget.

Dropping to second place was Alita: Battle Angel. The film dropped 58% in its second weekend for a three-day $12 million. So far it has earned $60.7 million domestically. Internationally it debuted in China where it earned $62.2 million of its $92.4 million overseas take for the weekend. That’s $202.7 million internationally for a worldwide total of $263.4 million.

In third place was The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part which earned $10 million to bring its domestic total to $83.6 million. The film earned just $10.3 million from 73 foreign markets. The foreign total is just $53 million for a worldwide total of $136.6 million.

Fighting With My Family expanded its theater count to come in fourth. The film earned $8 million for a domestic total of $8.2 million. It opened in four theaters the previous weekend.

Isn’t It Romantic rounded out the top five with an estimated $7.5 million to bring its domestic total to $33.8 million.

When it comes to comic adaptations…

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse dipped a few spots to come in at #15 earning an estimated $865,000. The film has earned $184.9 million domestically. With an Oscar win for “Best Animated Feature,” we’ll see if the movie gets a boost over the next week.

Aquaman continues to be right behind that film coming in at #16 and earning an estimated $765,000 to bring its domestic total to $332.9 million.

We’ll be back in an hour for a deeper dive into this year and last year’s comic adaptations.

Women Lead the Weekend Box Office Ruling the Top Five

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It was the worst President’s Day Weekend in 15 years but the top five films all starred women or had women taking the lead to save the day.

Alita: Battle Angel beat expectations with an estimated $27.8 million for the three-day weekend and is expected to earn a bit over $33 million for the four-day weekend. Over five days the film will have earned around $41 million which is well ahead the $30 million expectation. Still, the film has a $170 million price tag and would need somewhere around $500-$550 million worldwide to break even.

Internationally the film debuted in 11 markets last weekend and expanded to 86 markets this weekend. There it earned $56.1 million to bring its foreign earnings to $94.3 million. It’ll release in China and Japan on February 22.

The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part dropped from first to second earning an estimated $21.2 million to bring its domestic total to $62.7 million. Over the four days it’s expected to earn $27 million to bring its domestic earnings to around $70 million. Internationally it added $12 million from 69 markets to bring its global total to just shy of $98 million. It releases in France and Italy this coming week and in Australia on March 21.

Rebel Wilson’s Isn’t It Romantic opened in third place with an estimated $14.2 million over the three days and $16.5 million for the four days. That’ll but the film around $23 million over six days since it debuted on Wednesday.

In fourth place was What Men Want which earned an estimated $10.9 million over the three days and expected to earn about $12.5 million over four. That brings its domestic total shy of $38 million. The film also earned $2.2 million from six overseas markets for an international total of $2.5 million.

Rounding out the top five was Happy Death Day 2U which earned an estimated $9.8 million over three days and $11 million for the four. Since it opened on Wednesday the film should be just above $15 million over the six days. It was expected to earned a little over $20 million. Internationally the film earned $11.8 million in 41 markets. It opens in Ital and Russian on February 28 and Japan on July 12. With just a $9 million budget the film is quite fine.

In comic book films….

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse dropped two spots from the previous weekend to come in at #11. It earned an estimated $2 million to bring its domestic total to $182.7 million after 10 weeks. With foreign earnings of $173.3 million the film has earned $356 million worldwide.

Aquaman has crossed $331 million domestically and is now the second highest grossing domestic release for a DC Extended Universe film only behind Wonder Woman’s $412.6 million. It came in at #12 for the weekend down from last weekend’s #8. The film earned $1.9 million to bring its domestic total to $331.4 million. Internationally the film has earned $799.4 million to bring its worldwide total to $1.131 billion.

We’ll be back in an hour for a deeper dive into this year’s and last year’s comic adaptations.