Battle at the Box Office 2/10/25
The Super Bowl had a massive impact on the weekend box office, with several holdovers seeing massive drops and the new movies opening well below expectations.
Dog Man stayed on top of the box office but suffered a 62% drop off from last week’s opening. That is steep for a family movie, but we’ll have to see if it was just the Super Bowl effect this weekend. It has $54.2 million domestically and $66.2 million worldwide.
Heart Eyes opened in second place with $8.3 million. That’s below what Companion opened to last weekend and about $2 million below Thanksgiving from 2023. It’s also well below the release of fellow Valentine’s Day slasher, the 2009 remake of My Bloody Valentine, which opened to over $21 million. The movie got a B- CinemaScore, which is pretty good for a horror movie, so we’ll have to see if it can do better this coming weekend or if the Super Bowl critically hurt its box office.
Love Hurts opened in third place with $5.8 million. That’s about $1 million behind Nobody from 2021 and well above last year’s The Killer’s Game, but still probably not where Universal wanted it to be. It got a C+ CinemaScore, so it will likely drop off the charts quickly.
Mufasa: The Lion King and Companion rounded out the top five. Companion had a massive 68% drop from last weekend despite strong reviews and a decent B+ CinemaScore. We’ll have to see if the movie was severely front-loaded or if it was just the effect of the Super Bowl.
The documentary Becoming Led Zepplin was in seventh place, making $2.5 million in 369 theaters.
The best per-theater average went to Armand, which made $23,474 in each of the two theaters it was playing in.
