'The Revenant' wins blizzard-hit box office weekend
- 8 years ago
The snowy frontier saga "The Revenant" weathered a blizzard-ravaged box office.
Weekend movie-going was affected up and down the East Coast by Winter Storm Jonas, which forced theater closures in Washington D.C. and New York, and caused hundreds of theaters to suspend showings.
"It had a huge effect on the entire marketplace," said Kevin Grayson, head of domestic distribution for STX Entertainment, which debuted the horror thriller "The Boy." ''
Fittingly, the film that most flourished in the frigid winter weather was 20th Century Fox's Oscar-nominated "Revenant," which took in an estimated $16 million in its third week of wide release.
Last week's No. 1 movie, the Kevin Hart-Ice Cube comedy "Ride Along 2," dropped steeply in its second week, sliding to third with $13 million for Universal.
Weekend movie-going was affected up and down the East Coast by Winter Storm Jonas, which forced theater closures in Washington D.C. and New York, and caused hundreds of theaters to suspend showings.
"It had a huge effect on the entire marketplace," said Kevin Grayson, head of domestic distribution for STX Entertainment, which debuted the horror thriller "The Boy." ''
Fittingly, the film that most flourished in the frigid winter weather was 20th Century Fox's Oscar-nominated "Revenant," which took in an estimated $16 million in its third week of wide release.
Last week's No. 1 movie, the Kevin Hart-Ice Cube comedy "Ride Along 2," dropped steeply in its second week, sliding to third with $13 million for Universal.