Paramount’s Bob Marley: One Love delivered a huge $50 million-plus domestic opening over the six-day Valentine’s Day-Presidents Day corridor, enough to crush Madame Web‘s $25.8 million start, a record worst for Sony’s superhero adventures.
Estimates show One Love racking in an estimated $51.1 million for the six days domestically, including $33.2 million for the four-day Presidents Day weekend and a record $14 million on Valentine’s Day (rival studios say the decision to go out on sweetheart’s day day was a smart choice in building momentum). The movie’s weekend debut is on par with the starts of such musical biopics as Rocketman or Elvis, and did almost double the business it was tracking to do. (Grosses could shift once weekend actuals are issued Tuesday morning following the Monday holiday.)
Sony’s Madame Web $25.8 opening includes a four-day gross of $17.6 million. Either way, it is the worst start for a Sony film featuring Spide-Man related characters (the Dakota Johnson-starring film is not considered part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe). Madame Web got bashed by critics and audiences alike. Its ranking on Rotten Tomatoes hovers around 13 percent, while moviegoers slapped it with a C+ CinemaScore.
The top 12 movies of the weekend are as follows:
| # | Title | Distributor Name | Weekend Total | # of Locs | Loc Avg | Cume Total | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bob Marley: One Love | Paramount | $27,700,000 | 3,539 | $7,827 | $45,571,205 | |
| 2 | Madame Web | Sony | $15,150,000 | 4,013 | $3,775 | $23,354,619 | |
| 3 | Argylle | Universal | $4,720,000 | 3,647 | $1,294 | $36,468,480 | -24.47% |
| 4 | Migration | Universal | $3,750,000 | 2,455 | $1,527 | $114,827,995 | 27.74% |
| 5 | Chosen: Season 4 Episodes 4-6, The | Fathom Events | $3,443,070 | 2,228 | $1,545 | $4,220,036 | |
| 6 | Wonka | Warner Bros. | $3,400,000 | 2,347 | $1,449 | $209,821,297 | 11.24% |
| 7 | Beekeeper, The | Amazon MGM Studios | $3,253,000 | 2,557 | $1,272 | $59,894,503 | -4.28% |
| 8 | Anyone But You | Sony | $2,415,000 | 2,020 | $1,196 | $84,711,912 | -8.92% |
| 9 | Lisa Frankenstein | Focus Features | $2,030,000 | 3,143 | $646 | $7,664,150 | -45.07% |
| 10 | Land of Bad | Variance Films | $1,800,000 | 1,048 | $1,718 | $1,800,000 | |
| 11 | Mean Girls | Paramount | $1,100,000 | 1,350 | $815 | $71,040,119 | -43.00% |
| 12 | American Fiction | MGM | $923,000 | 803 | $1,149 | $18,891,990 | -27.82% |
