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Alejandro G. Inarritu's awards frontrunner The Revenant rode to the top of the box-office chart in its fourth weekend in wide release - the first time the movie has come in No. 1. The frontier epic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, grossed $16 from 3,711 theaters for a domestic total of $119.2 million.
The Revenant and other films faced a formidable foe this weekend as hundreds of theaters closed on the East Coast because of winter storm Jonas, including in New York City, a market that contribute as much as 7 percent of the overall box-office gross. Cinemas also shuttered in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. Analysts project that weekend revenue was down as much as 15 percent because of Jonas.
Theaters in the nation's capital, Baltimore and Philadelphia remain dark on Sunday as clean-up efforts begin, while New York City cinemas are expected to begin reopening in the afternoon.
Even without snowzilla, none of the weekend's three new films - Lionsgate's raunchy, R-rated comedy Dirty Grandpa, supernatural horror film The Boy and Sony's The 5th Wave - were expected to do big business, although all three came in on the high end of expectations. That being said, they all placed behind The Revenant, Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($14.5 million) and Ride Along 2 ($12.9 million).Zac Efron and Robert De Niro's R-rated comedy Dirty Grandpa fared the best with $11.5 million from 3,192 theaters. The movie, coming in No. 4, was decimated by critics but fared somewhat better with audiences, who gave it a B CinemaScore.
In the film, De Niro plays a grandfather who tricks his grandson (Efron) into driving him to Florida just days before the young, uptight lawyer's wedding.
The Boy, fueled by younger females and Hispanics, grossed $11.2 million from 2,671 theaters. Directed by William Brent Bell, the movie is the third release from STX Entertainment, who partnered with Lakeshore on the $10 million movie.
Previously titled The Inhabitant, The Boy revolves around a young American (Lauren Cohan) who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village. Her charge, however, turns out to be a life-size doll that the parents treat as a real boy, while the whereabouts of their son is unclear.
Sony's 5th Wave, starring Chloe Grace Moretz, came in No. 6 with an estimated $10.3 million from 2,908 locations. That's a disappointing start, considering the $38 million movie was intended to launch a new YA film franchise (it is faring better overseas.)
5th Wave, based on the best-selling book series, follows a young girl on the run after four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks leave much of Earth decimated. As she prepares for the fifth attack, she meets a young man (Nick Robinson).
Both 5th Wave and The Boy earned a B- CinemaScore
In its sixth weekend, Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit $1.94 billion globally. It placed No. 2 in the U.S. with $14.3 million from 3,365 theaters for a domestic total of $879.3 million; overseas, it took in $23.3 million for a foreign tally of $1.06 billion.
Among holdovers, Universal's Ride Along 2 appeared to be hit hardest by Jonas. The sequel, reuniting Ice Cube and Kevin Hart, tumbled 63 percent in its second weekend to $12.9 million from 3,192 theaters. The Revenant and Star Wars declined 50 percent and 46 percent as a way of comparison.
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