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By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | February 9, 2026
It’s Super Bowl weekend, so most people chose to stay away from the cinemas to prepare for the Bad Bunny concert. Also, the Winter Olympics is on, and watching ice skating routines to Spice Girls songs is more preferrable to seeing a Kevin James rom-com.
Despite a few new releases, Sam Raimi’s Send Help managed to hold onto the top spot, even with a 47% drop from its opening week. Its $10 million second weekend brings its domestic total to just over $35.8 million. Let the reign of Rachel McAdams continue.
Solo Mio, is a romance starring Kevin James. The one-time Sandler cohort and star of movies like The Zookeeper is reinventing himself with some intriguing movie choices lately. We respect that. Audiences, alas, seemed less interested in this offering from Angel Studios. It earned $7.2 million, debuting at number two. But James can atl east say he won over a KPop thing, which is a power move in the modern day.
Said KPop movie was Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience, a concert film about the popular band and their sold-out performances in Los Angeles from a recent world tour. The movie earned $5,564,237 from 1,724 locations.
We have a new Dracula movie too. Luc Besson and Caleb Landry Jones’s Dracula comes to us from France. Vampires are back in fashion, but fans weren’t in the mood for this one, as it landed at number five with $4,505,350. So, for anyone interested in the rankings, this weekend goes: Kevin James, KPop, vampires.
The Strangers: Chapter 3, the final part of this needlessly drawn-out horror trilogy, landed with a thud at number eight with only $3.49 million from 2,565 places. The reviews got worse with each installment and audiences lost interest. Things weren’t much better for another new horror release this past weekend, Whistle. That one only earned $720,000 from 1,200 cinemas.
And for those wondering: Melania plummeted from number three to number 10, with its domestic total sitting at $13.3 million. Every site reporting this movie as some grand commercial hit is a damn liar.
In limited release news: Pillion, the dom-com starring Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling, made an impressive $241,769 from four theatres (Alex’s leather halter top paid off); Sirat, the Spanish choice for Best International Feature at this year’s Oscars — and one of the nominees — also impressed with $136,252 from four locations; Japanese drama Kokuho, about the world of Kabuki theatre (and a Best Hair and Make-Up Oscar nominee), took in $47,175; animated family flick Buffalo Kids grossed $36,681 from 750 places; Iraqi drama The President’s Cake made $7,879; and documentary Starman brought in $6,150.
This coming week sees the release of the sports animation GOAT, the sci-fi adventure Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, and the gothic romance Wuthering Heights.
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.
