Weekend Box Office Report: March 22-24, 2019

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

It's all about Us!

Terrifying doppelgangers had crowds screaming in the theaters this weekend as the horror movie US opened on top with an estimated $70.2 million!

Writer-director Jordan Peele's second feature more than doubled the opening of his acclaimed debut GET OUT, which started with $33.3 million in 2017 and went on to $176 million domestic and $255 million worldwide (on a budget of $5 million).

Peele's new dread-filled family nightmare set records for the biggest opening day for a live-action original ($29 million on Friday) and best opening weekend for an original horror movie, in addition to the best opening weekend for any live-action original since AVATAR's $77 million start in 2009.

US also scored the third-biggest opening for an R-rated horror movie, behind the $76 million start of last year's HALLOWEEN and the $123 million opening of Stephen King's IT in 2017.

The thriller with BLACK PANTHER co-stars Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke facing their wicked counterparts picked up an additional $16.7 million from international audiences for a worldwide weekend of $86.9 million, on a reported cost of $20 million.

The home-invasion mayhem was a hit with critics, who gave Peele's latest a 94% average on Rotten Tomatoes. Creep on over to the JoBlo review right HERE.

After ruling the chart for two weeks, Marvel's space heroine CAPTAIN MARVEL stepped down to second place with $35 million over her third weekend.

With a domestic total of $321.4 million, Brie Larson's mighty cosmic warrior has exceeded the totals of MCU chapters IRON MAN ($318 million) and THOR: RAGNAROK ($315 million).

With a current worldwide total of $910 million, CAPTAIN MARVEL is now Marvel's seventh-biggest release as it passed the global finishes for GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY ($773 million), THOR: RAGNAROK ($854 million), GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 ($863 million) and SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING ($880 million), plus the worldwide totals for DC Comics rivals WONDER WOMAN ($821 million) and BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE ($873 million).

The PG-rated animal adventure WONDER PARK was in third place with $9 million, shedding 43% of business from last weekend's opening for a ten-day domestic total of $29.4 million and $39.6 million worldwide (on a reported $80 million cost).

In fourth place was the PG-13 romance FIVE FEET APART with $8.7 million, declining by only 33% from its opening last weekend. The $7 million teen drama has a ten-day domestic total of $26.4 million and a $32.7 million worldwide total.

Animated sequel HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD was in fifth place with $6.5 million, flapping to a domestic total of $145.7 million after five weekends. The $129 million close of the trilogy has a worldwide total of $488 million, still trying to catch the original HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON's $494 million global finish.

The comedy sequel TYLER PERRY'S A MADEA FAMILY FUNERAL was in sixth place with $4.5 million, giving Madea's final movie a domestic total of $65.8 million (the third-best in Perry's Madea series) on a reported cost of $20 million.

The R-rated Julianne Moore drama JULIA BELL popped up on the list in seventh place with $1.8 million as it expanded to 650 screens. The well-received romance (94% on Rotten Tomatoes) with John Turturro has a domestic total of $2.4 milion after its limited release run.

In eighth place was the R-rated comedy NO MANCHES FRIDA 2 with $1.7 million, losing 53% of business from last week's opening to give the Spanish-language sequel a ten-day domestic total of $6.6 million.

Hanging on at the bottom was the PG-rated animated sequel THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART with $1.1 million and director Robert Rodriguez's PG-13 sci-fi/action movie ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL with $1 million, bringing the $170 million anime/manga adapation just short of $400 million worldwide.

Outside the chart, Rupert Wyatt's alien invasion thriller CAPTIVE STATE disappeared after one weekend in the Top 10 as Oscar winner GREEN BOOK drove out of sight. In limited release, the Dev Patel/Armie Hammer drama HOTEL MUMBAI had a $21k per-screen average.

And before he arrives in theaters on April 5, the DC Comics superhero SHAZAM! had a paid preview on Saturday and snagged $3.3 million (the JoBlo review is HERE).

Next weekend brings Disney's flying elephant to life in DUMBO, while Matthew McConaughey chills as a stoner named Moondog in filmmaker Harmony Korine's comedy THE BEACH BUM.

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