The raunchy puppet comedy The Happytime Murders failed to score big in a weekend that saw Crazy Rich Asians take the top spot at the box office for the second straight week in a row.
The Jon M. Chu-directed romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians continued its box office dominance with a $25 million take which represents a mere 5% drop from last week’s debut. Talk about legs! Typically, films experience a 40-50% drop from first to second week. Speculation has it that audiences are returning to buy tickets for the second, third, or even fourth time with many bringing guests.
Title | Weekend | Total | Last Week |
1. Crazy Rich Asians |
$25,000,000 | $$76,817,947 | 1 |
2. The Meg |
$13,030,000 | $105,300,646 | 2 |
3. The Happytime Murders |
$10,02,000 | $10,02,000 | N |
4. Mission: Impossible - Fallout |
$8,000,000 | $193,900,660 | 4 |
5. Christopher Robin |
$6,340,000 | $77,628,783 | 6 |
6. Mile 22 |
$6,030,000 | $25,170,954 | 3 |
7. Alpha |
$5,600,000 | $20,160,574 | 5 |
8. BlacKkKlansman | $5,345,000 | $32,037,540 | 7 |
9. A.X.L | $2,939,000 | $2,939,356 | N |
10. Slender Man |
$2,785,000 | $25,403,116 | 8 |
While there’s not a whole lot of box office competition this time of year, Asians expected to come up on a stronger debut from Melissa McCarthy’s comedy turn in the Henson Alternative comedy feature The Happytime Murders. That didn’t happen as that film bowed to a disappointing $10 million while it was passed by The Meg which holds onto the second spot again this week with a $13 million take. {googleads}
The top five was rounded out by Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible - Fallout which held steady week-to-week with another 4th place finish with an $8 million haul while Disney’s Christopher Robin actually moved up a spot into five with $6.3 million total.
The top ten was filled out by Mark Wahlberg’s Mile 22 in sixth place with $6.3 million, the boy and his dog adventure Alpha in seventh place with $5.6 million, followed by Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman in 8th place with $5.3 million this week.
A.X.L. bowed in ninth place with a weak $2.9 million while the horror film Slender Man rounded out the top ten with a $2.7 million draw.