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Box Office: The Revenant And DiCaprio Give Star Wars A Run For The Money

While Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues its historic run toward Box Office record-making (correction: record-clobbering), the media is turning its attention to a surprisingly strong showing from Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle The Revenant, which grossed $38 million in domestic theaters over the weekend.
Impressively, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is still drawing huge numbers in its fourth weekend after release. The blockbuster reaped a cool $41.6 million in the United States, bringing its domestic gross to $812 million and its international total to $1.7 billion.
In mid-week, these numbers erased Avatar’s perch as the highest domestic gross of all time and – although it took Avatar 48 weeks to do it. In terms of worldwide receipts, Avatar still holds the
record – $2.8 billion – but Hans Solo, Rey, Finn and the rest of the Star Wars upstarts will certainly be surpassing that before long.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened this weekend in China, where it notched $53 million in sales Friday through Sunday.
But film pundits have their eye on numbers for The Revenant, because a strong showing would bolster DiCaprio’s run for his first Oscar. In contention is another repeat nominee for an Oscar choice, Will Smith, who plays Dr. Bennet Omalu in Sony’s Concussion. It’s a solid film with a rock-solid performance, but it hasn’t mustered much enthusiasm at the Box Office – and buzz is invaluable when it comes to going home with Oscar.
For the weekend, Concussion, which was released Christmas Day, took in $3.1million in 2,056 U.S. theaters. To date, Concussion has $31 million in U.S. sales – just under what The Revenant reaped in 3,375 U.S. theaters Friday through Sunday.
Furthermore, The Revenant and Concussion could get a boost from next weekend’s Oscar nomination.
Also on the domestic theater top 10 list for weekend, Will Farrel, Mark Walberg comedy Daddy’s Home earned $15 million; horror film The Forest earned $13 million; The Sisters with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made $7.1 million; The Hateful Eight, $6.35 million; The Big Short $6.3 million; Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, $5.5 million; Joy $4.5 million; Concussion $3.1 million.
Similar to watching a baseball player climb towards a record, you might note that Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now in seventh place in gross receipts earned overseas, just behind Avengers: Age of Ultra, which earned $946 million. Ahead of it remains Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, $960.5 million; Jurassic World, $1 billion; Fast and Furious 7, $1.1 billion; Titanic at $1.5 billion and Avatar at $2 billion.
Of course, in domestic sales it is now the all-time leader with $812 million earned. In terms of worldwide earnings, it’s $1.7 billion puts it in third place behind Titanic at $2.1 billion and Avatar at $2.8 billion.
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Movie Magic: The De-Aging Technique of The Irishman
Have you read Izzy yet? If so, you know that Izzy makes the apples that give the Gods their youth and immortality. It also seems Robert De Niro discovered one of Izzy’s apples too… In Martin Scorsese’s upcoming biographical film, he stars as Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, a labor union leader and alleged hitman for the Bufalino crime family. The trailer for the movie, which will premieres NEXT WEEK (!), also features a “de-aged” De Niro. “We’re so used to watching them as the older faces,” Scorsese said in an interview on the A24 podcast. “Does it change the eyes at all? …If that’s the case, what was in the eyes that I liked? Was it intensity? Was it gravitas? Was it threat?…How do we get that? I don’t know.” Some might consider this magic and I for one can’t wait to see the impact of Izzy’s apples on screen for myself. ????
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“Captain Marvel” Retains Top Slot at the Box Office

It’s no surprise that in its second weekend, the first Marvel Cinematic Universe of 2019 is still riding high. Captain Marvel, the latest in the MCU with Brie Larson starring as the lead, generated another $69 million over the weekend, placing its domestic total at $266 million. Tallying up the international box office, the film’s global total to date is $760 million. Despite the online controversy, the film is looking to be another strong box office smash for Disney and Marvel.
As for the premieres for the weekend, and there were plenty, they were all over the map. Just below Captain Marvel was the animated adventure Wonder Park, bringing in $16 million, another film with controversy when the director’s name was removed from the picture after sexual harassment charges. Five Feet Apart, the dying teen drama about a romance amid cystic fibrosis, only came in at #3 with a weekend gross of $13 million. And debuting the lowest in the top 10 for debuts was Captive State, a sci-fi dystopian tale, only making $3 million. The film debuted so low the little film No Manches Frida 2 was able to sneak about it at #6 with a gross of $3.8 million.

Drops were fairly low all around for the returning films, mostly because Captain Marvel was dominating the previous weekend. The only milestone worth noting is that The LEGO Movie 2, after six weeks at the box office, finally cracked $100 million. And the sun is now setting on Green Book’s post-Oscar run by coming in at #10 for the final weekend of its top 10 run over the past few weeks.
View the full top ten weekend box office results below:
Captain Marvel ($69,318,000)
Wonder Park ($16,000,000)
Five Feet Apart ($13,150,000)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World ($9,345,000)
Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral ($8,085,000)
No Manches Frida 2 ($3,894,000)
Captive State ($3,163,000)
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part ($2,135,000)
Alita: Battle Angel ($1,900,000)
Green Book ($1,277,000)
Next weekend, Captain Marvel may very well have some competition when Jordan Peele’s new horror film Us hits over 3,600 theaters.
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“Dragon” Continues To Soar, “Funeral” Close Behind, “Green Book” Back

With little competition for the weekend, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, the third in the animated fantasy saga, was able to secure the box office once more. In its second weekend, the animated epic made $30 million to push its domestic total to $97 million. So far the film has done about the same as the previous film and is on track to stay in the top 10 for a few more weeks in March.
Debuts this weekend were small with one big exception. Tyler Perry’s latest Madea film, A Madea Family Funeral, naturally made a relatively big splash with its dedicated audience. Starting at #2, the film made $27 million for its first weekend. No word on the budget yet but it’s most likely on a budget as most Tyler Perry productions are, so it’s safe to call this a success, especially for debuting with a box office so close to Dragon.
The rest of the premieres were not as strong at all. Greta, the new thriller starring Chloe Moretz, debuted all the way down at #8 with $4.5 million box office. To be fair, however, the film was in a constant battle for its spot as three other films also reported earnings around $4 million for the weekend. Of note, Green Book, fresh off winning the Academy Award for Best Picture one weekend ago, splashed back into more theaters to arise even higher in the top 10 with its domestic total now sitting at $73 million. Don’t count on it remaining there long as bigger blockbusters will be swooping as we plow through the last remnants of winter movies.
Check out the full listing of the top 10 box office weekend results below:
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World ($30,046,000)
Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral ($27,050,000)
Alita: Battle Angel ($7,000,000)
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part ($6,615,000)
Green Book ($4,711,000)
Fighting With My Family ($4,691,284)
Isn’t it Romantic ($4,645,000)
Greta ($4,585,000)
What Men Want ($2,700,000)
Happy Death Day 2U ($2,516,000)
Next weekend is once again all about Marvel as their latest superhero solo film, Captain Marvel, will be appearing in 4,100 theaters.
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