More evidence emerged this weekend that releasing movies simultaneously on a streaming service and theaters might not be a box office death knell as The Little Things, a serial killer thriller starring the all-Oscar winning team of Denzel Washington, Rami Malek (with No Time To Die getting pushed back a year and a half, this becomes his first major post-Oscar role), and Jared Leto (who scored an unexpected Golden Globe nomination for his performance this morning) became the second movie--and first that wasn't a preordained blockbuster--to be released simultaneously into theaters and on HBO Max. The film opened at #1 with a pandemic-solid $4.7 million. That gives it the fourth best opening of the pandemic era, behind only Wonder Woman 1984, Tenet, The Croods: A New Age, and The New Mutants. It does seem likely that the streaming service drained some money from its opening, but even with Washington in the lead, this felt like a fairly minor entry, so it probably wouldn't have opened much higher.
Staying steady in second, in its tenth weekend, is The Croods: A New Age, which brought home another $1.8 million for a total of $43.9 million. With family movies largely sitting out until Tom & Jerry arrives at the end of the month, Croods could stay firmly lodged near the top of the chart for weeks to come.
Wonder Woman 1984, which left HBO Max just as The Little Things arrived, came in third, with $1.3 million, bringing its total to $39.2 million. The grosses seemed to have stabilized, meaning there's a chance that Diana could find herself north of $50 million before this is over. In real 1984, a $50 million gross would have made a film the 13th biggest movie of the year. In 2020, Wonder Woman is already in 10th for the year, and will probably stay there.
Falling from 1st to 4th is The Marksman, taking in $1.2 million. Its gross is now up to $7.8 million. In 5th, Monster Hunter took home $0.7 million for a gross of $11.1 million. In 6th is News of the World, which earned two Golden Globe nods, for its score and an surprise Supporting Actress nomination for 12-year-old Helena Zengel. It took in $0.5 million for a total of $10.4 million.
Promising Young Woman and Fatale have been joined together since the former opened on Christmas, but for the first time, Young Woman's weekend outgrossed Fatale's. The Carey Mulligan thriller, which picked up four Globe nominations this morning, including Drama, Screenplay, Director, and Actress, still trails the Hilary Swank thriller, which received zero Globe nominations, in total box office, $5.6 million to $4.4 million. But I'd expect Woman to surpass Fatale's grosses in the coming weeks.
Rounding out the Top 10 is Our Friend, whose ten-day total is a disappointing $0.5 million (it also failed to earn any Globe nods), and The War With Grandpa. Pickings were so slim on the Comedy/Musical side of the Globes that there was some speculation that Robert De Niro might actually score a nomination. He didn't, but Grandpa did achieve something even more impressive, namely it's 17th straight weekend in the Top 10, officially beating Frozen's 16 weeks and becoming the most leggy movie of the last decade. That said, War's $19.6 million total gross is way, way, way behind Frozen's $400 million.
Even during normal times, Super Bowl weekend is usually a light weekend at the box office, but this year will be downright ghost townish, with no major new releases, nor even any re-releases out. The question is not will The Little Things repeat at #1--it will--but how far will its grosses drop. We'll find out next weekend.
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