Split has won a second consecutive Friday at the box office. The M. Night Shyamalan thriller earned $8 million on Friday and is projected to earn between $25 and $26 million over the entire weekend.
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Newcomer A Dog’s Purpose will follow behind in second place. A Dog’s Purpose earned $5.3 million on Friday. Following controversy and boycotting over the treatment of animals on the film’s set, projections for A Dog’s Purpose‘s opening weekend have dropped from $25 million to $19 million.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter debuts in third place, behind Oscar-contender Hidden Figures. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter earned $5 million on Friday and is projected for between $12 and $13 million over the weekend.
Vin Diesel’s xXx: The Return of Xander Cage landed in sixth place in its second weekend, bringing in $2.1 million on Friday.
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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.
In Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, the human race’s last hope against apocalyptic obliteration is super soldier Alice (Milla Jovovich), but she’s been stripped of her psychic powers. She must form alliances and rally survivors in Raccoon City for the climactic battle against the Umbrella Corporation and its ravenous hordes of the undead. This sixth installment of the video game-inspired franchise is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (AWP: Alien vs. Predator).
In xXx: Return of Xander Cage, the third explosive chapter of the blockbuster franchise that redefined the spy thriller finds extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) coming out of self-imposed exile and on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora’s Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of world governments. Packed with the series’ signature deadpan wit and bad-ass attitude, xXx: Return of Xander Cage will raise the bar on extreme action with some of the most mind-blowing stunts to ever be caught on film.
