Daily Box Office Report
Thursday, March 16, 2017
By Daniel Garris
| Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was off to a massive start on Thursday night with an estimated $16.3 M from preview screenings that began at 6 PM. That easily represented the largest
preview gross ever for a live action adaptation of a Disney animated film, with the previous best being the $4.2 M previews registered by both 2014’s Maleficent and last year’s The Jungle Book. The
preview gross for Beauty and the Beast was the 19th largest ever reported for a Friday release and the 23th largest ever for any film. As is normally the case, the Thursday night performance of Beauty and the Beast will
be counted towards the film’s opening day gross for Friday. |
| Warner’s Kong: Skull Island rounded out its first week of release with $3.879 M on Thursday. Kong: Skull Island declined a hefty 16.0 percent from Wednesday, as daily declines in
general were sharp yesterday due to Beauty and the Beast entering the marketplace and to the start of NCAA Basketball Tournament. Kong: Skull Island exceeded expectations this week with a seven-day start of
$81.275 M. That places the film 5.5 percent ahead of the $77.065 M seven-day start of 2005’s King Kong (which opened on a Wednesday). That lead will continue to shrink as a result of King Kong opening before Christmas. |
| Fox’s Logan held steady in second place with $2.802 M. Logan was down 11.3 percent from Wednesday and down a very solid 43.3 percent from last Thursday. For the week, Logan
grossed $51.720 M, which represented a 55.0 percent decline from the film’s opening week performance. Logan has grossed $166.527 M in two weeks. That currently makes it the highest grossing domestic release of
2017 so far (though Beauty and the Beast will obviously overtake Logan before long). |
| Universal’s Get Out continued to display tremendous holding power with $2.039 M on Thursday. Get Out was down just 7.7 percent from Wednesday and down 22.2 percent from last
Thursday. For the week, Get Out grossed $29.886 M. That was down only 25.5 percent from the previous frame and brings the three-week total for the break-out hit to a very impressive $119.868 M. The current total
gross to opening weekend ratio for Get Out stands at 3.59 to 1. |
| Lionsgate’s The Shack grossed $963 K to remain in fourth. The Shack experienced one of the day’s stronger daily percentage holds, as the film was down just 3.8 percent from Wednesday
and down 24.9 percent from last Thursday. For the week, The Shack grossed $14.266 M. The Shack was down 35.8 percent from its opening week performance and has grossed a stronger than expected $36.485 M in
two weeks. |
Daily domestic box office results for Thursday, March 16, 2017.
| Film (Distributor) | Daily Gross |
Theatre Count |
Per-Thea. Average |
%Change Yesterday |
%Change Last Thu. |
Total Gross |
TG to OW Ratio |
Week | |
| 1 | Kong: Skull Island (Warner Bros.) |
$3,878,594 | 3,846 | $1,008 | -16.0% | N/A | $81,275,294 | 1.332 | 1 |
| 2 | Logan (Fox) |
$2,802,076 | 4,071 | $688 | -11.3% | -43.3% | $166,526,885 | 1.884 | 2 |
| 3 | Get Out (Universal) |
$2,039,175 | 3,143 | $649 | -7.7% | -22.2% | $119,868,145 | 3.591 | 3 |
| 4 | The Shack (Lionsgate / Summit) |
$962,509 | 2,888 | $333 | -3.8% | -24.9% | $36,484,630 | 2.256 | 2 |
| 5 | The LEGO Batman Movie (Warner Bros.) |
$845,384 | 3,303 | $256 | -13.3% | +50.4% | $162,723,352 | 3.070 | 5 |
| 6 | Hidden Figures (Fox) |
$260,324 | 1,421 | $183 | -17.5% | -17.9% | $164,059,069 | 7.196 | 12 |
| 7 | John Wick: Chapter 2 (Lionsgate / Summit) |
$251,370 | 2,031 | $124 | -16.1% | -36.2% | $88,590,804 | 2.911 | 5 |
| 8 | Before I Fall (Open Road) |
$235,106 | 2,346 | $100 | -29.0% | -15.5% | $10,260,677 | 2.188 | 2 |
| 9 | La La Land (Lionsgate / Summit) |
$156,331 | 1,578 | $99 | -22.8% | -29.6% | $149,234,184 | 15.621 | 14 |
| 10 | A Dog's Purpose (Universal) |
$133,040 | 1,022 | $130 | -22.3% | +16.1% | $62,455,030 | 3.427 | 7 |
| 11 | Lion (Weinstein Company) |
$132,847 | 960 | $138 | -9.7% | -24.3% | $49,266,614 | 13.102 | 16 |
| 12 | Rock Dog (Lionsgate / Summit Premiere) |
$123,199 | 1,376 | $90 | -19.7% | +18.1% | $8,841,353 | 2.386 | 3 |
| 13 | Fifty Shades Darker (Universal) |
$121,970 | 1,498 | $81 | -28.5% | -57.3% | $113,576,485 | 2.437 | 5 |
| 14 | The Great Wall (Universal) |
$109,775 | 1,592 | $69 | -29.8% | -50.5% | $44,457,640 | 2.407 | 4 |
| 15 | Fist Fight (Warner / New Line) |
$108,252 | 1,285 | $84 | -27.9% | -40.6% | $31,077,748 | 2.547 | 4 |
| 16 | Split (Universal) |
$89,190 | 981 | $91 | -31.4% | -23.4% | $136,359,225 | 3.408 | 8 |
| 17 | Moonlight (A24) |
$72,764 | 987 | $74 | -17.0% | -56.2% | $27,252,471 | 18.306 | 21 |
| 18 | Sing (Universal) |
$71,150 | 400 | $178 | -7.7% | +134.5% | $269,038,350 | 7.631 | 12 |
| 19 | Table 19 (Fox Searchlight) |
$69,564 | 868 | $80 | -31.6% | -41.7% | $3,375,156 | 2.112 | 2 |
| 20 | A United Kingdom (Fox Searchlight) |
$58,145 | 317 | $183 | -8.0% | -3.6% | $2,858,253 | 4.522 | 5 |
| 21 | Badrinath Ki Dulhania (Fox International Productions) |
$53,007 | 152 | $349 | -22.2% | N/A | $1,166,509 | 1.353 | 1 |
| 22 | Moana (Disney) |
$51,443 | 276 | $186 | -1.1% | +26.1% | $247,701,698 | 4.374 | 16 |
| 23 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Disney) |
$51,264 | 166 | $309 | +110.1% | +187.5% | $530,245,532 | 3.419 | 13 |
| 24 | Monster Trucks (Paramount) |
$31,724 | 181 | $175 | +3.2% | +155.1% | $33,370,166 | 3.047 | 9 |
| 25 | Why Him? (Fox) |
$19,146 | 68 | $282 | -5.1% | -5.8% | $60,269,575 | 5.478 | 12 |
| 26 | Fences (Paramount) |
$18,921 | 189 | $100 | -2.6% | -32.9% | $57,470,712 | 5.723 | 13 |
| 27 | Trolls (Fox / DWorks Anim.) |
$17,049 | 60 | $284 | +3.5% | +254.7% | $153,649,648 | 3.299 | 19 |
| 28 | Manchester By the Sea (Roadside / Amazon) |
$13,684 | 113 | $121 | -5.4% | -44.5% | $47,592,839 | 11.268 | 17 |
| 29 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Warner Bros.) |
$12,781 | 188 | $68 | -1.0% | +27.8% | $233,868,941 | 3.143 | 17 |
| 30 | xXx: Return of Xander Cage (Paramount) |
$11,668 | 139 | $84 | +2.3% | +231.4% | $44,898,413 | 2.230 | 8 |
| 31 | The Founder (Weinstein Company) |
$8,020 | 57 | $141 | +16.2% | -8.7% | $12,604,304 | 3.703 | 8 |
| 32 | Bitter Harvest (Roadside / Amazon) |
$6,068 | 32 | $190 | -12.1% | -48.3% | $527,613 | 2.405 | 3 |
| 33 | 20th Century Women (A24) |
$4,640 | 29 | $160 | +46.8% | -10.4% | $5,557,708 | 4.012 | 11 |
| 34 | My Life as a Zucchini (GKIDS) |
$4,201 | 52 | $81 | -13.2% | -60.5% | $202,264 | 3.689 | 3 |
| 35 | Rings (Paramount) |
$3,465 | 76 | $46 | -31.2% | -52.2% | $27,704,688 | 2.131 | 6 |
| 36 | Everybody Loves Somebody (Lionsgate / Pantelion) |
$3,281 | 33 | $99 | -28.5% | -25.5% | $1,889,722 | 2.045 | 4 |
| 37 | Doctor Strange (Disney) |
$3,193 | 47 | $68 | +17.2% | -20.8% | $232,641,920 | 2.735 | 19 |
| 38 | The Sense of an Ending (CBS Films) |
$3,157 | 4 | $789 | -3.4% | N/A | $52,597 | 1.325 | 1 |
| 39 | Raw (Focus World) |
$2,763 | 2 | $1,382 | -13.4% | N/A | $35,162 | 1.416 | 1 |
| 40 | Tim Timmerman, Hope of America (Purdie Distribution) |
$594 | 12 | $50 | -42.4% | -58.3% | $81,252 | 1.606 | 2 |
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