Captain Marvel took on four new challengers this weekend but held onto the top spot for the second weekend in a row by adding another $70 million to its domestic total.
Though the weekend's receipts represent a 55% drop from its open, the second week's total is bigger than any other film's opening weekend this year. Captain Marvel's cumulative domestic total now sits at a whopping $266 million. And it feels like the thing is just getting started.
Newcomer and family-friendly adventure film Wonder Park came in second this weekend with $16 million which is more than $50 million less(!) than top finisher Captain Marvel, but $3 million more than third place finisher and newcomer Five Feet Apart which took in $13 million.
How to Train Your Dragon 2 dropped only two spots to finish in fourth by adding another $9 million to bring its four-week-domestic total to more than $135 million. {googleads}
The Top five was rounded out by Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral which fell three slots while taking in another $8 million.
The Spanish-Language comedy No Manches Frida 2 makes an impressive showing this past weekend by bringing in nearly $4 million to finish in sixth place while newcomer Captive State follows in seventh with a $3 million box office take.
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part fell four slots to finish in eighth place but packed on another $2 million to its impressive $101 million domestic total while Fox's Alita: Battle Angel also feel four spots to ninth with just under $2 million over the weekend.
The box office top ten was rounded out by the Oscar-winning Green Book which brought its box office total to $82 million with a 41.2 million weekend.
Here are the weekend Box Office Results for March 15 - 17, 2019:
Title | Weekend | Total | Last Week |
1. Captain Marvel |
$69,300,000 | $266,200,000 | 1 |
2. Wonder Park |
$16,000,000 | $16,000,000 | N |
3: Five Feet Apart |
$13,100,000 | $13,100,000 | N |
4. How to Train Your Dragon The Hidden World |
$9,300,000 | $135,600,000 | 2 |
5. Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral |
$8,000,000 | $59,000,000 | 3 |
6. No Manches Frida 2 |
$3,900,000 | $3,900,000 | N |
7. Captive State |
$3,100,000 | $3,100,000 | N |
8. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part |
$2,100,000 | $101,300,000 | 4 |
9. Alita: Battle Angel |
$1,900,000 | $81,800,000 | 5 |
10. Green Book |
$1,200,000 | $82,600,000 | 6 |