Tales of the top 10: Solo Mio Opens in Second, Zootopia 2 Draws Nearer to the 2025 Crown<\/p>\n
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Kevin James is back in theaters in the flesh with his first wide release since 2015. Courtesy of Angel Studios, the comedy Solo Mio<\/a>, with James as a dumped fianc\u00e9 going through with his honeymoon in Rome, opened to $7.2 million. That\u2019s a long way from the Paul Blart and Sandler days. On the other hand, even with a handful of reviews, the film is registering as the highest score of Kevin James\u2019 big screen career in either live-action or animated. Until the 78% (as of this writing) of Solo Mio, the Fresh entries on James\u2019 resume included only Monster House (75%), Becky (72%), Hitch (68%), Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (62%), and this year\u2019s Guns Up (61%).<\/p>\n Markiplier\u2019s adaptation of video game Iron Lung<\/a> fell back to third this weekend, but every dollar is a victory at this point. Varying reports have had the budget between $2-4 million. With $6 million this weekend the independently made and distributed production has already grossed over $31 million. That is more than the adaptations of Doom ($28.2 million), Super Mario Bros. ($20.9 million), Borderlands ($15.4 million) and Wing Commander ($11.5 million) among others. If the film is being taken out of theaters by next weekend it has just four days to gross less than $2 million to pass Street Fighter with Jean Claude Van Damme on the video game chart.<\/p>\n Despite 40+ years of celebration as one of the most beloved comedies of all-time, Bleecker Street was unable to open Rob Reiner\u2019s Spinal Tap II to better than $1.61 million. Even sadder was that it was still the company\u2019s 12th-best opener ever. This weekend it took a K-Pop group to give them their second best ever. The near two-and-a-half hour Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience<\/a> opened to $5.5 million, trailing only Steven Soderbergh\u2019s Logan Lucky for the company\u2019s best opening of $7.6 million. Globally it has made $19 million.<\/p>\n Last year we had Radu Jude\u2019s Dracula. This year we have Luc Besson\u2019s Dracula<\/a>. Since the days of La Femme Nikita (88%), The Professional (72%) and The Fifth Element (71%), the filmmaker has not had much success with critics, save for 2014\u2019s Lucy with Scarlett Johansson (67%), the film that was also his biggest financial success with over $458 million grossed worldwide. He followed that up with mega-loser Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Anna (2019), Dogman (2023), and June and John, which was shot during COVID lockdown and released overseas last year. This weekend\u2019s roughly $52 million production of Dracula with Caleb Landry Jones as the bloodsucker and Christoph Waltz as Van Helsing opened to $4.5 million. On the bright side, that is Vertical Entertainment\u2019s best opening to date, besting We Bury the Dead\u2019s $2.5 million from just five weeks ago, and it has already surpassed Gotti ($4.34 million) as their highest-grossing theatrical release.<\/p>\n Renny Harlin\u2019s reboot\/reimagining\/continuation of The Strangers series has not exactly put up record numbers. But those numbers have nevertheless made the investment worth it for Lionsgate. Chapters 1 & 2 reportedly cost a combined $17 million and grossed over $69 million globally. That\u2019s the only math that matters to the studio. Now comes The Strangers: Chapter 3<\/a>, opening to $3.5 million, lower than the $11.8 million and $5.8 million of the first two chapters, which went on to gross just over $35 million and $15 million, respectively. The final chapter will likely come in under $10 million, so while this particular film may come up in the red, the trilogy is already very much in the black.<\/p>\n How are the all-timers doing? Well we can confidently say now that Zootopia 2<\/a> will become the top-grossing domestic film released in 2025. The film added $4 million to its total of $414.5 million. That puts it now about $9 million away from dethroning A Minecraft Movie. It now also has the sixth-highest overseas total ever with $1.388 million and is over $1.8 billion total. Zootopia 2 just missed having its 11th-straight week in the top five. Avatar: The Way of Water was the last film to do that. Cameron\u2019s follow-up Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a> spent just seven weeks in the top five, and this weekend fell to eighth with $3.5 million and a total of $391.5 million. It continues to climb the worldwide chart as it nestled into 18th place all time with $1.439 billion and is now looking to pass Barbie ($1.447 billion), Frozen II ($1.453 billion), and Top Gun: Maverick ($1.495 billion).<\/p>\n Black Bear\u2019s Shelter<\/a> will be their first film to get over $10 million, though it is still a low number even for Jason Statham. After $2.4 million this weekend, it is still going to need another $3+ million just to pass Crank: High Voltage, the action star\u2019s third-lowest grossing star vehicle. Other sub-$20 million efforts have included The Expendables 4 ($16.7 million), Safe ($17.1 million), and Parker ($17.6 million). Shelter ultimately will be included on that list. The film has made $26.8 million globally, currently Statham\u2019s second-lowest global total ahead of only In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale ($13.09 million).<\/p>\n Closing out the top ten is Brett Ratner\u2019s documentary, Melania<\/a>, which fell over 66% down to $2.3 million. It has now grossed a total of $13.3 million. That would be an incredible number for a documentary if it didn\u2019t cost $75 million in talent fees and marketing. Meanwhile, Amazon\u2019s Mercy<\/a> went from first place to out of the top 10 in three weeks, earning just $1.9 million and grossing a total of $22.7 million. That\u2019s not great when you realize it cost $60 million, and it is just below $50 million globally. $100 million plus marketing for two movies that have not even grossed $40 million: the math does not lie.<\/p>\n Beyond the Top 10: Marty Supreme Becomes A24\u2019s Highest-Grossing Film<\/p>\n Charlie XCX\u2019s pseudo-mockumentary about her Brat Summer tour, The Moment<\/a>, had an incredible $427,960 start last weekend in just four theaters. A24 expanded the film this weekend into 581 theaters, where it grossed $1.69 million. The numbers have some similarity with their release of Ari Aster\u2019s Beau Is Afraid, which began with an $80,099 per-theater average only to expand to 965 theaters in weekend two to a $2,759 PTA. The Moment went from $106,985 to $2,907. So far, it has grossed $2.2 million and will go even wider next week. A24 also put out Harry Lighton\u2019s Pillion<\/a> with Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd in four theaters, where it grossed $241,000. Not too shabby either, but lets hear it for Marty Supreme<\/a>, which has now become the studio\u2019s highest global success ever with over $147 million. $93.2 million is on the North American side after $1.3 million this weekend.<\/p>\n Wrapping things up, we have IFC\u2019s release of horror film Whistle<\/a>, which grossed an estimated $720,000. Neon got the fourth of its International Feature Oscar nominees, Sirat<\/a>, out in four theaters this weekend. It grossed an estimated $136,000. Paul Feig\u2019s The Housemaid<\/a> has now surpassed $350 million worldwide, putting it among the top 20 global releases of 2025. It is Feig\u2019s highest-grossing hit across the world. Bridesmaids, The Heat, Spy, and 2026\u2019s Ghostbusters all made between $228-289 million worldwide.<\/p>\n On the Vine: \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d, GOAT, Crime 101, and More<\/p>\n Emerald Fennell\u2019s \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d<\/a> (yes, in quotation marks) with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi opens next week and is poised to put up the biggest numbers of the year so far. Apparently, GOAT<\/a> is also tracking to have the best opening for an original animated film since Pixar\u2019s 2020 release of Onward, which was upended by a pandemic being declared the following week. Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, and Mark Ruffalo headline Crime 101<\/a>, an adaptation of the Don Winslow novel. Then there is also Gore Verbinski\u2019s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don\u2019t Die<\/a> with Sam Rockwell as a time traveler trying to stop the rise of AI. Also look out for early contender as the funniest film of the year with Neon\u2019s release of Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n Full List of Box Office Results: February 6-8, 2026<\/p>\n Send Help<\/a> \u2013 $10.0 million ($35.8 million total)<\/p>\n Solo Mio<\/a> \u2013 $7.2 million ($7.2 million total)<\/p>\n Iron Lung<\/a> \u2013 $6.7 million ($31.5 million total)<\/p>\n Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience<\/a> \u2013 $5.5 million ($5.5 million total)<\/p>\n Dracula<\/a> \u2013 $4.5 million ($4.5 million total)<\/p>\n Zootopia 2<\/a> \u2013 $4.0 million ($414.5 million total)<\/p>\n The Strangers: Chapter 3<\/a> \u2013 $3.5 million ($3.5 million total)<\/p>\n Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a> \u2013 $3.5 million ($391.5 million total)<\/p>\n Shelter<\/a> \u2013 $2.4 million ($9.9 million total)<\/p>\n Melania<\/a> \u2013 $2.3 million ($13.3 million total)<\/p>\n Erik Childress can be heard each week evaluating box office\u00a0on\u00a0Business First AM<\/a>\u00a0with Angela Miles and his\u00a0Movie Madness Podcast<\/a>. [box office figures via\u00a0Box Office Mojo<\/a>]<\/p>\n Thumbnail image by \u00a9Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures<\/p>\n