We’re still more than a week away from Groundhog Day, campers. But the box office’s top five still looks as familiar as a cold morning at a Punxsutawney bed and breakfast.
And you know what that means, don’t you? It means that Mean Girls, last weekend’s No. 1 movie, is once again singing “I Got You Babe” to the top spot.
Granted, the musical comedy didn’t make nearly as much this time around, losing nearly 60% of its weekend-over-weekend audience. But Mean Girls still banked an estimated $11.7 million in North America, pushing its overall earnings to $50 million. Add in its modest overseas sales ($16.2 million), and Mean Girls has stuffed $66.2 million into the pages of its burn book.
Given that the Mean Girls’ Plastics’ clique appreciates stability in the social pecking order, they’d certainly appreciate the box office’s rigid status quo this weekend.
The Beekeeper buzzed back into second place this weekend, gathering up $8.5 million from North American theaters and carrying back to its own cash comb. Its overall domestic earnings now hover at $31.1 million. But the Jason Statham actioner is doing far better overseas than Mean Girls: Add its international grosses, and The Beekeeper has a honey of a bottom line—$75.3 million overall.
Speaking of sweet success, Wonka continues to unwrap new treats every weekend. This weekend, the Willy Wonka origin story earned another $6.4 million, pushing its overall North American tally to $187.2 million. That’s still a chocolate wafer or two away from the $206.5 million that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory earned in 2005. But if you look at worldwide grosses, Wonka’s the winner—earning $531.8 million to Charlie’s $475 million. Forget that river of chocolate: How ‘bout a river of cash?
The R-rated romcom Anyone But You continues to stubbornly stick to the top five, earning $5.4 million. Meanwhile, Migration again closed out the top five with $5.3 million.
Where were the newcomers, you ask? Well, the movies’ makers were probably asking the same thing.
I.S.S., a clever little outer space thriller, barely made it into orbit—banking just $3 million in its opening weekend to finish seventh (behind Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, in case you’re curious). The other newcomer of note, Origin, earned $875,000 en route to a 14th-place finish. But given that the drama was only in 125 theaters, that’s not too shabby.
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