With the Super Bowl looming, ‘Argylle’ wins an awful box office weekend
The top five movies barely cracked $20 million, with Matthew Vaughn’s spy film leading the way.
Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of Feb. 9-11, 2024.
1. Argylle
Weekend gross: $6.5M
Total domestic gross: $28.8M
Last weekend: 1st
Percent drop: 63
Yikes. There are rough weekends at the box office and then there are rough weekends at the box office. The top five movies barely scraped together $20 million this weekend. Was everyone at home watching the Super Bowl ... all Friday ... and Saturday ... and Sunday afternoon ... ?
The box office needed a hit to turn things around this weekend, and it didn’t get one. Argylle remained at No. 1, adding a measly $6.5 million to its overall haul. (Can you call $28.8 million a haul? Maybe if it’s just Thursday screenings, but an entire domestic gross through two weekends? That’s not really a haul.)
Can Madame Web or Bob Marley: One Love turn things around next weekend?
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2. Lisa Frankenstein
Weekend gross: $3.8M
Total domestic gross: $3.8M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA
On paper, Lisa Franksenstein should’ve been bigger than a $3.8 million opening weekend. Zelda Williams, daughter of Robin Williams, made her feature film directorial debut on this, working from a script by Diablo Cody, the Oscar winner behind films like Juno and Young Adult.
Critics didn’t seem to love Lisa Frankenstein, with the film earning a score of 49 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and I guess audiences agreed with them.
