Split Recovers To Win Third Weekend Box Office Over Rings
02/05/2017 12:24 pm EST
After suffering its first second-place finish on Friday, Split recovered to win a third straight weekend at the box office.
Split earned $14.6 million in its third weekend at the box office. Split's box office total now stands at $98.7 million.
Rings won the box office on Friday but fell behind to second place over the weekend. In total, Rings earned $13 million in its opening weekend.
In Split, while the mental divisions of those with dissociative identity disorder have long fascinated and eluded science, it is believed that some can also manifest unique physical attributes for each personality, a cognitive and physiological prism within a single being. Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him - as well as everyone around him - as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.
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In Rings, it is a new chapter in the beloved Ring horror franchise. A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before...
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