Boss Baby narrowly beats "Beauty and the Beast "
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| Credit: DreamWorks & Disney |
It’s good to be the boss. DreamWorks Animation’s animated feature The Boss Baby defied expectations for yet another week by taking the top spot at the box office, bringing home an impressive $26.3 million in U.S. theaters and dropping a mere 47.6 percent from its big opening weekend — quite a bit less than films with similarly poor reviews typically fall in their second week. Even more surprising, however, is that the film has now held off current box-office juggernaut Beauty and the Beast for two straight weekends.
Of the three new releases to make it into the week’s top ten films, none of them had particularly positive debuts.
Sony Pictures Animation’s franchise sequel Smurfs: The Lost Village eked out an unfortunate $14 million premiere, giving it the lowest opening weekend of the franchise so far. The film’s so-so reviews probably won’t help, but if there’s one thing that seems certain these days, it’s that reviews don’t affect animated and family-friendly features to the same degree that they do live-action, adult fare.
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