With the Super Bowl looming, ‘Argylle’ wins an awful box office weekend

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?

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.