No matter how mean a girl you are, you’ll always make room at the cafeteria table for a box-office win.
Mean Girls, a musical remake of the 2004 classic comedy, proved to be the weekend’s most popular film—climbing to the top of the cinematic stratosphere with an estimated $28.7 million in North America. And that’s just the numbers for the traditional three-day weekend. Add in the grosses from Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Mean Girls climbs to $33.2 million. Grool, right?
While Mean Girls proved to be the weekend’s queen bee, The Beekeeper didn’t do so bad itself. This Jason Statham actioner—one of four movies to roll wide this week, carried its pre-release buzz to a $16.6 million weekend ($19 million if you include Monday’s earnings). And while finishing second to Mean Girls in North America must sting a bit, The Beekeeper actually did better than Mean Girls worldwide, according to Screen Rant. Those overseas earnings sweetened its overall global take to $37.1 million.
Wonka, last weekend’s champ, slipped to third with $8.5 million ($11 million including MLK Day). That pushes its overall domestic take to a very sugary $176.3 million.
Anyone But You continues to hang around the top five, finishing fourth with $7.1 million ($8.5 million including MLK Day), while Migration flapped to No. 5 with $6.2 million (or $8.3 million including MLK Day).
The weekend’s other big newbie, The Book of Clarence, stumbled out of the gate, earning just $2.6 million over the three-day weekend (and $3 million over four) to finish ninth. And the re-release of Soul fell flat, earning just $437,000 over three days and $565,000 over four. That was only good for a dismal 20th place.
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Out of curiosity, why haven’t you reviewed Anyone But You? It’s been out for awhile now, in the top 5 box office weekly and more showings than some of the more indie films.
After weeks passed without them reviewing it, I figured they were internally discussing whether to do so at all (similar to the controversies over their bothering to review “Fifty Shades of Grey,” which I endorsed them doing), since most of the talk I saw about this movie talked about Sydney Sweeney and only her (and somewhat reductively at that).
That does make sense. Oddly, shortly after I posted the comment, looks like a review for it appeared LOL.
Hi Taran, it was good timing indeed! We had previously not covered it as we didn’t think the movie would do as well as it has and be worth the time investment needed to write the review. However, we ended up choosing to cover it earlier this week when we saw it attract a lot more attention than we thought it would.