Tom Holland will remain in the top spot at the box office, and Uncharted wins its second weekend. Following the record-breaking records in Spider-Man: No Way Home, the Holland-led video game adaptation won its holiday-weekend box office debut and remained in the top spot this weekend. The film is overperforming during Presidents Day weekend opening. Having overperformed in its upcoming, Uncharted remains strong in weekend two, earning an estimated $23 million with a $6 million Friday haul. The film’s cume will grow to an estimated $83.1 million by Monday. Critics haven’t loved Uncharted, but that doesn’t seem to have slowed it down. ComicBook.com’s Tanner Dedmon thought the film was a formulaic but fun PG-13 adventure.
“That’s probably who’ll enjoy this film the most; those who played one or two games in the series and could pick Nathan out of a lineup of protagonists but aren’t invested enough to get hung up on inconsistencies,” he writes in his 3.5-out-of-5 review of the movie. “For those uninitiated to Uncharted, let Holland be your Nate and shelve this movie next to your Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones collections. The more fervent fans may never see their favorite characters translated as well as they’d like, but we’ll almost certainly be getting more movies after this one, so it’s best to look at Uncharted the same way it views itself – not too seriously.”
Channing Tatum’s Dog also showed staying power, expecting to earn another $8.5 million in its second weekend. Joe Wright’s Cyrano, starring Peter Dinklage, will open in 10th place with $1.25 million, behind the Foo Fighter’s horror flick Studio 666 with $1.8 million. The list of top 10 films at the box office is in the works.
