Movie Monday: ‘GOAT’ Becomes Greatest of This Week’s Box Office

It turns out, GOAT is an underdog (undergoat?) story in more ways than one.

Despite premiering in second place under the Valentine’s Day powerhouse that was Wuthering Heights, the animated sports movie GOAT broke into first place this week. GOAT scored $17 million among North American audiences, raising its domestic earnings to $58.3 million. Worldwide, the movie clopped its way to $102.3 million.

As mentioned, GOAT’s rise came at Wuthering Heights’ fall. That windy top blew the movie down to second place following a 57% drop in earnings from last week. Still, Wuthering Heights managed to generate $14.2 million, resulting in a domestic cume of $60 million. And, factoring in worldwide earnings, the film enjoys a $151.7 million gross.

Christian biopic I Can Only Imagine 2 debuted at the box office in third place after bringing in $8 million. While that means it opened roughly $9 million lower than the first film, it still stands as a respectable number and placement for a Christian movie.

I Can Only Imagine 2’s open knocked Crime 101 down to fourth place—as did the fact that Crime 101 lost 59.5% of its opening weekend’s audience. It stole $5.8 million this weekend, bringing its domestic cume to $24.7 million. Its worldwide crime syndicate has taken $46.3 million from audiences.

Rounding out the top five this weekend was Send Help. After scavenging $4.5 million, its domestic gross crash landed at $55.5 million. Worldwide, that number is $83 million.

As for other new releases, How to Make a Killing only made a modest amount. $3.6 million, in fact. That’s good enough for sixth place—unless the film is prepared to kill off the other five movies ahead of it.

Midwinter Break earned enough to pay for an unforgettable vacation—$530,000—but nowhere near enough to place anywhere higher than 19^th. Meanwhile, This Is Not a Test may have been a low-budget zombie film, but it was a low-earning zombie film, too. It bit into $150,000 in its debut, landing in 25^th place.