Weekend Box Office: 'Get Out' Has Great Opening Weekend

Jordan Peele's horror satire Get Out outperformed expectations this weekend to win the first-place spot with ease. With a weekend take of $30.5 million, the film grossed half again as much as even the most enthusiastic predictions, and it left all other competing films in the dust.

The second-place film, The Lego Batman Movie, was the only other movie to take in more than $10 over the weekend. It earned $19 million and took unchallenged possession of second place. The animated family film had been the number-one movie for each of the past two weekends.

For those two past weekends, the second-place film had been Fifty Shades Darker, but that movie faded significantly this weekend, earning just $7.7 million and dropping to fifth place. Hold-overs John Wick: Chapter 2 and The Great Wall moved past it to take third and fourth places, respectively.

The week's other two new movies, the animated Rock Dog and the action thriller Collide, didn't even make it into the top ten. Rock Dog, a major disappointment both here and abroad, took in $3.7 million for eleventh place, and Collide earned $1.5 million and settled into thirteenth place.

The bottom half of the top ten was filled with Best-Picture Oscar nominees, with Hidden Figures, La La Land and Lion sitting in seventh, eighth and tenth places, respectively. The eventual Best-Picture, Moonlight, managed only to take sixteenth place, although its fortunes will no doubt improve next week.