Monday Morning Box Office Report: Fifty Shades Flogs Valentine’s Day Weekend

Posted by on February 16th, 2015   Filed under: Box Office

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Well it didn’t break any box office records, but Fifty Shades of Grey still made some serious bank over the weekend as it earned an estimated $81 million. That is the fifth-highest opening weekend ever for an R-rated movie and the second highest in February. Clearly a lot of that came from couples on Valentine’s Day, which means that it will likely drop off quite a bit next weekend. In second place, Kingsman: The Secret Service put in a pretty solid performance as well, coming in above expectations with $35 million. That’s way more than Kick-Ass made back in 2010. Meanwhile The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water fell to #3 while American Sniper and Jupiter Ascending rounded out the top 5.

1. Fifty Shades of Grey — $81.67M
2. Kingsman: The Secret Service — $35.6M
3. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water — $30.54M
4. American Sniper — $16.44M
5. Jupiter Ascending — $9.43M
6. Seventh Son — $4.15M
7. Paddington — $4.15M
8. The Imitation Game — $3.53M
9. The Wedding Ringer — $3.4M
10. Project Almanac — $2.73M



  • PlanBFromOuterSpace

    At my theater, “Fifty Shades” pulled in the “Magic Mike” and “Sex and the City” crowd, meaning mostly middle-aged women and their college-aged daughters, and they’re some of the biggest assholes to deal with, because middle-aged women hardly ever seem to be in a hurry to see anything, so they’re bigger shitheads when we’re busy, when the auditoriums are crowded, and when lines aren’t moving as quickly as they’d like.

    I’m REALLY not looking forward to having to deal with “Magic Mike XXL”…

  • ECONOMYpolitica

    Racy headline. Woo!

  • Colin

    My mind is absolutely blown away that Shades pulled in that much scratch… what was it projected for?