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Tue Jan 10, 2017, 04:41 PM Jan 2017

Final Box Office: 'Hidden Figures' Beats 'Rogue One' With $22.8M [View all]

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Sunday estimates had showed the two films tying for No. 1, but 'Hidden Figures' ended up winning the race. Elsewhere, 'Underworld: Blood Wars' underwhelms in its debut, while 'Rogue One' races past the $900 million mark globally.
Empowered women and outer space dominated the North American box office over the weekend as Theodore Melfi's biographical drama Hidden Figures orbited past Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to win the race with $22.8 million from 2,471 theaters as it expanded nationwide, versus $22.1 million for Rogue One in its fourth weekend from 4,157 locations.

Sunday morning estimates had showed the two films all but tying for the No. 1 spot with roughly $22 million each, but Hidden Figures did more business than expected throughout the day. (Most rival studios showed Hidden Figures narrowly beating Rogue One all along. The stand-alone Star Wars story is hardly a slouch, though, having stayed atop the chart for three consecutive weekends.)

Nabbing a coveted A+ CinemaScore, Hidden Figures stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae as the real-life African-American mathematicians who helped NASA put the first men into space even while having to endure a segregated workplace. Their story, however, had been obscured for decades.


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