HOLLYWOOD MOVIE, “GLASS” EYES BOX OFFICE TOP SPOT, WITH $70M IN IT’S SECOND WEEKEND

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The weekend’s top spot will once again go to Universal’s Glass, which enters its second weekend with an eye for a $16.5 million sophomore session, signalling a drop around -59% following its $40.3 million three-day debuts over the holiday weekend last week. Should our forecast hold the film will be looking to finish around $70 million by end of day Sunday.

STXFilms’s The Upside is expected to continue its strong box office run following a -26% drop last weekend. This week the film enters its third week in release and is adding theatres, playing in 3,377 locations (+57), and we’re anticipating a drop around -20% for a $12 million three-day and a domestic cume right around $62 million by the end of the weekend.

Third place is where we expect to find Fox’s release of the family feature The Kid Who Would Be King, which is debuting in 3,521 locations.

While the studio is hoping for a $10 million debut we’re having a hard time going that high as the film has seen such little interest when looking at IMDb page view data leading up to release.

In fact, from that perspective, it has been difficult to find comps and even the theatre count seems a little aggressive as we would have expected a debut in closer to 3,000 locations.

As such, we’re anticipating a performance anywhere from $9-10 million for the weekend, though the film could benefit on Saturday and Sunday from solid word of mouth and positive reviews, which currently stand at 87% on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 68 on Metacritic.

WB’s Aquaman is looking to top $315 million domestically this weekend as the superhero feature enters its sixth week in release.

We’re anticipating a drop around 38% or so for a $6+ million three-day. The film should also become the largest worldwide release ever for a film based on a DC comic property as it currently stands just $10.4 million behind The Darknight Rises ($1.0849b).

Fifth place for the weekend could go a lot of ways. We’re going with Sony’s Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, which is only losing 329 theatres this weekend.

Should our forecast for a three-day around $5.5 million holds we expect it to end the weekend as Sony Animation’s second highest grossing domestic release of all time with over $168 million domestically.

That said, Sony’s A Dod’s Way Home is only losing nine locations as it enters its third weekend and it too looks to deliver over $5 million for the weekend.

Another possibility for that fifth slot could be FUNimation’s Dragon Super: Boly.

Last weekend the film delivered an impressive $9.8 million from just 1,238 locations, but as of press time, we still haven’t received a theatre count for this weekend.

Should it remain in a similar number of locations, don’t be surprised to see it challenge for a spot in the top five for a second straight weekend.