“Goat” Kicks “Wuthering,” Powell At Box-Office

The post-President’s Day holiday weekend box-office is usually a slow one, but this year it was a bit better – even if some films got hit pretty hard.

Sony Pictures Animation’s “Goat” took the top spot with $17 million, dropping just 38% compared to last week’s winner “Wuthering Heights” which fell 57% to second place with $14.2 million.

Both films have grossed around $60 million so far domestically with “Goat” passing $100 million and “Wuthering Heights” $150 million worldwide this weekend.

Four films had launches this week, with only the faith-based “I Can Only Imagine 2” making the Top 5 – even if it came in on the low end of tracking scores in third place with $8 million.

Fourth and fifth went to returnees “Crime 101” and “Send Help”. The former saw a 59% drop in its second weekend down to $5.8 million, while the latter sadly didn’t have that strange sub-1% drop it had last weekend – this time it fell 49% to $4.5 million. Their respective domestic totals so far sit at $24.7 million and $55.5 million.

In sixth place was “How to Make a Killing,” A24’s Glen Powell-led darkly comedic revenge thriller, which did poorly with critics and a DOA box-office take of just $3.56 million. The film was essentially dumped with minimal marketing and production issues, and will now likely make its way to PVOD faster than most A24 titles.

In limited release, Baz Luhrmann’s concert film “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” did a pretty good $3.25 million from just 325 screens – all IMAX. The title scored rave reviews with critics and audiences.

Finally, “Psycho Killer” was released and utterly tanked. Landing in tenth spot, the film scored a rare 0% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes and very low audience scores.

Source: Deadline