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By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | February 10, 2025
Twas the week before Valentine’s Day, and all through the house, Americans were getting ready for the Super Bowl, apparently, because cinemas were mostly empty. It’s the big not-real-football game time, so everyone is busy with tailgates and Kelces and singing along to Kendrick Lamar calling Drake a sex offender.
That meant that DreamWorks Animation’s latest film, Dog Man, managed to retain the top spot with $13.7 million from 3,887 locations. That’s a 61.9% drop from its opening weekend, which would usually be a big problem for a movie like this, but the competition was sparse and February is a month where being financially disappointing has different definitions.
There were two Valentine’s Day-adjacent movies in competition: a horror movie and an action-comedy. As we’ve said so many times on this site, always bet on the horror movie. Heart Eyes debuted at number two with $8.5 million from 3,102 theatres.
Behind it at number three was Love Hurts, the first-ever leading role for Oscar winner and forever Goonie Ke Huy Quan. It earned a meager $5.8 million from 3,055 cinemas. The dump months are a harsh mistress.
After it opened soft in December, Mufasa: The Lion King has managed to have a slow-burn box office success over the quiet months. It’s now passed $235 million domestically, which means it has finally beaten its major competition from its release week, Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Granted, Mufasa cost way more money. But if those reports of $200 million are accurate, then it’s now in the black with over $671 million earned worldwide. You go, Barry Jenkins. Disney better let you make whatever the hell you want now.
At number seven is Becoming Led Zeppelin, a documentary about the legendary band that features all the major living players. It made over $2.62 million from 369 locations.
We’re all in a hardcore Eat the Rich mode these days, so shout out to Parasite for doing a re-release in 193 theatres to let us indulge in a few things on glorious IMAX quality. It was big enough in a quiet week to gross $326,000.
In limited release news: the Italian drama Parthenope earned $31,906 from four places; and the Norwegian film Armand (unrelated to the vampire) brought in $23,000 from two cinemas.
This coming week sees the release of Paddington in Peru.
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office results here.
