The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies Tops The Woman In Black 2 At Friday Box Office

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies was the only film to make $8 million at the U.S. box office on Friday, besting this week's new release The Woman In Black 2: Angel of Death by more than $500,000, according to Box Office Mojo.

The final installment in Peter Jackson's Middle Earth epic also passed $200 million at the domestic box office yesterday with $8.375 million building to a total of $207 million all time.

The Woman in Black 2 came in second with $7.75 million, followed by both Into the Woods and Unbroken with more than $7.4 million each. The margin for error, then, between #1 and #4 is pretty slim and while it's unlikely Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb ($5.925 million) is going anywhere, the rest of the top five could fall in just about any order.

By the end of its third weekend at the box office, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug had raised only $181 million, compared to $207 for The Battle of the Five Armies up to this point. Of course, both movies performed well over the holiday weekends, and Desolation of Smaug was not only released earlier in the month (so it didn't have those holidays by its third weekend) but on a Friday, as compared to The Battle of the Five Armies' Wednesday release. By the time New Years weekend had passed last year, Smaug had made $229 million.