Send Help remained at the top of the box office for a second weekend as the Super Bowl and the Olympics drew significant attention away from theaters.
Send Help raised another $9 million domestically, bringing total domestic revenue to $34.8 million and worldwide revenue to $52.6 million. It dropped 53% from last weekend’s opening, which for a horror movie (or at least horror adjacent) isn’t terrible. For Sam Raimi, it has surpassed the total domestic gross of Darkman and is likely already past For the Love of the Game. It should pass Drag Me to Hell in the next week, but then there’s a massive jump of over $200 million to the next movie in his filmography, Oz the Great and Powerful.
Solo Mio debuted in second place with $7 million. That puts it between Cabrini and Homestead for Angel Studios openings, but it is the worst wide opening ever for Kevin James as the lead, below Here Comes the Boom, which opened to just over $11 million. It should potentially see a boost this coming weekend as a Valentine’s Day option.
Iron Lung dropped to third place with another $6.7 million, dropping 63% from last weekend’s strong opening. It now has $31.5 million for a domestic total and $36.5 million worldwide. That’s slightly over 10x its budget to date.
Stray Kids: The DominATE experience and Dracula rounded out the top 5. The former is a concert film for K-pop boy band Stray Kids and has grossed $5.6 million domestically and $19.9 million worldwide. Dracula debuted with $4.5 million domestically and $25.4 million worldwide. That domestic opening is on the low end of recent Dracula adaptations, with The Last Voyage of the Demeter opening to $6.5 million and Nosferatu opening to $21.6 million.
Further down the list, The Strangers: Chapter 3 debuted outside the top 5 in seventh place with $3.4 million. That continues the downward trend of this recent trilogy, as it’s the lowest opening not only of this recent trilogy but of the entire franchise. The movie received a D CinemaScore, so it should exit theaters fairly quickly, and hopefully, this is the end of a franchise that is the definition of diminishing returns.
Melania almost dropped out of the top 10 in its second weekend, with a 67% decline to $2.3 million, despite adding another 225 theaters. It was definitely heavily front-loaded (and possibly artificially inflated, if you believe some conspiracy theories), and it has $13.3 million in domestic total.
A24’s Pillion had the best per-theater average of the weekend with $60,442 in each of the four theaters where it played.
