{"id":124079,"date":"2019-02-09T18:35:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T22:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=124079"},"modified":"2019-02-09T18:35:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T22:35:58","slug":"lego-movie-2-disappoints-still-leads-us-friday-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2019\/02\/09\/lego-movie-2-disappoints-still-leads-us-friday-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;LEGO Movie 2&#8221; Disappoints, Still Leads US Friday Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rapid release of spin-offs clearly took a bite out of &#8220;The LEGO Movie&#8221; franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Official sequel &#8220;The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part&#8221; underperformed at the US Friday box office.<\/p>\n<p>The sequel earned $8.5 million on Friday, which marked its first day of release.  While enough for a first-place finish Friday (and enough to position &#8220;LEGO&#8221; for a clear weekend victory), the tally is well below expectations.  It is also well below the $17.1 million earned by the original film.<\/p>\n<p>It also trails the $14.5 million earned by &#8220;The LEGO Batman Movie&#8221; (though tops the $5.8 million earned by &#8220;The LEGO Ninjago Movie&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The film will likely close the weekend with $29-32 million in receipts.  That will yield a comfortable weekend victory (no other film is even a lock for $20 million), but it will be well below the $50 million-plus analysts expected.<\/p>\n<p>The first film earned $69.1 million in its inaugural weekend.<\/p>\n<p>New release &#8220;What Men Want&#8221; took second place with $6.6 million Friday.  It should also take #2 on the weekend chart with $17-19 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cold Pursuit,&#8221; another newcomer, was #3 at the Friday box office with $3.6 million.  A projected weekend finish in the $9-11 million range should keep it in the #3 slot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Prodigy&#8221; took #4 at the Friday box office with $2.0 million, but it may fall below &#8220;The Upside&#8221; and &#8220;Glass&#8221; as the weekend continues.  They are respectively projected for $6.5-7.5 million and $6-7 million this weekend, while &#8220;The Prodigy&#8221; may land in the $4.5-5.5 million range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite its first-place result, &#8220;The LEGO Movie 2&#8221; underperformed.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36,1050],"tags":[12087,12009,12085,12086,11987,12088],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;LEGO Movie 2&quot; Disappoints, Still Leads US Friday Box Office<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The rapid release of spin-offs clearly took a bite out of &quot;The LEGO Movie&quot; franchise. 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