OPENINGS: The Robo-turtle very nearly stole the race from the rom-com hare, as ABOUT LAST NIGHT (Screen Gems/Sony) continued its post-Valentine’s Day slowdown, falling another 39% on Sunday to $4.9M and now projected to total $28.5M over the 4-day weekend. That’s still a fine number for a moderately-budgeted movie, but not the breakout hit that Think Like A Man ($91.5M US total) proved to be.
ROBOCOP (Sony/MGM) held much better, down 20% on Sunday to $6.6M, but still unable to hurdle Last Night‘s big Valentine’s Day, with a 4-day total of $25.6M ($30.3M since its Wednesday opening).
The other two new romances stumbled after Friday. ENDLESS LOVE (Universal) dropped 34% on Sunday to $2.3M ($15.1M over the full holiday weekend) and may not reach $40M, and WINTER’S TALE (Warners) was even worse, down 38% on Sunday to $1.4M (an awful 4-day total of $8.1M), perhaps not even to reach $20M.
HOLDOVERS: THE LEGO MOVIE (Warners) squashed the competition after its neck-and-neck Friday, down just 17% on Sunday to $16.9M and now anticipating a 4-day weekend of $63.5M and US total to date of $143.8M. By next weekend it should be the #2 movie ever released in February, behind only the atypical PASSION OF THE CHRIST. The family audience continued to love FROZEN (Disney), too, which fell only 13% on Sunday and took in $8.1M for the 4-day weekend, a US total of $378.3M.
Live-action holdovers were led by THE MONUMENTS MEN (Sony), which dropped 23% on Sunday to $4.6M and a 4-day weekend of $18M ($46.2M in the US to date) and RIDE ALONG (Universal), down 34% to $2.1M and a $10M 4-day weekend ($117.4M total). LONE SURVIVOR (Universal) with $4.7M in 4 days, AMERICAN HUSTLE (Sony) with $2.9M, and THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Paramount/Red Granite) with $2.3M are also holding well.
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