Author: Alex Fisch

With no new wide-releases this past weekend, The Croods: A New Age once again takes the #1 spot at the box-office, earning $1.7M (a hold of 82% of the prior weekend). A magnet for families looking for entertainment, Croods also becomes the second film to cross the cumulative $50M domestic total during this COVID pandemic (the first was Tenet).

Although the Super Bowl, the “Arctic blast” in the Midwest, and the snowstorm in the Northeast undoubtedly effected turnout, moviegoers still made it into theaters this weekend. Devoid of fresh major content, the box office crowns The Little Things once again, earning $2.1M in its second weekend. T

New release The Little Things (starring Denzel Washington and Rami Malek) opened to $4.8M this weekend in theaters – and marks the second Warner Bros. film to simultaneously release on HBO Max. After going a week without fresh content, theaters benefitted from a new face and saw an overall 52% box office increase from last weekend (as reported by Deadline).

Déjà vu: the first movie to shift out of 2020 because of concerns surrounding the pandemic has been delayed yet again for the same reason. No Time to Die – originally on the theatrical calendar for November 8th of 2019 – is now slated for October 8th of this year. Just as it happened last year, MGM’s date shift prompted several other studios to delay their Q1 & Q2 titles.

The latest new release, The Marksman, earned $3.2M over the 3-day weekend. That was enough to take first place away from Wonder Woman 1984, which landed in third with $2.6M. Despite the film being available on streaming, the box-office for Wonder Woman dropped only 13% from the weekend prior.

Wonder Woman 1984 held on to 55% of its box-office from last weekend; grabbing $3M more for a running total of $32.6M. This is the 17th day the film has been in theaters, meaning there are only 2 weeks left before the film leaves HBO Max and plays exclusively in theaters for 30 days after.

When the industry is ready, moviegoers have a strong line-up of films to look forward to seeing on the big screen this year. The majority of the year’s top films will be titles originally slated for 2020: No Time to Die (4/02), A Quiet Place Part II (4/23), Black Widow (5/07), F9 (5/28), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (6/25), Minions: The Rise of Gru (7/02), Top Gun Maverick (7/02), Jungle Cruise (7/30), Candyman (8/27), Halloween Kills (10/15), and Marvel’s Eternals (11/05).