

dropped less (if you can believe it) with a 48% decline to nab only $14.3M to date and Sony’s Life (which last week garnered only a C+ CinemaScore) was down 55% with a total cume of only $22.3M.

Lionsgate’s Saban’s Power Rangers, from which the distributor was hoping to generate a new franchise, fell 64% and now sits at $65M. Three pictures were in their second weekends of play. To Star As Belle In ABC's ''Beauty And the Beast' Hybrid Live-Action & Animation Special We’ll do an autopsy on that cyborg movie in a bit. It played on 380 IMAX screens which accounted for $3M of its domestic total. The picture dropped 13% Friday to Saturday.

Not cracking at the box office is Ghost in the Shell from DreamWorks/Reliance/Paramount with a much lower than expected three-day of $18.6M at 3,440 locations and a listless B CinemaScore. 1 all weekend long, however, Alec Baldwin’s tough guy baby will be the last man standing. Some believed that this would be a close battle for No. It’s also getting close to the $500M mark overseas. Disney’s Beauty and the Beastisn’t far behind in second with $47.5M and the weekend gross brings ever so closer to the $400M mark with a $395.4M after only 17 days in play. (Fox thinks it’ll end the weekend with $49M). Writethru Sunday, 8:00 AM : Sunday estimates are in and we have a new boss at the top of the box office with DreamWorks Animation’s 34th title The Boss Babywill cash an opening weekend check of $50.3M at 3,773 theaters via 20th Century Fox.
