{"id":2259950,"date":"2026-01-31T16:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2259950"},"modified":"2026-01-31T16:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:55:39","slug":"send-help-duels-iron-lung-at-box-office-with-18m-opening-melania-beats-projections-with-8m-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/send-help-duels-iron-lung-at-box-office-with-18m-opening-melania-beats-projections-with-8m-start\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Send Help\u2019 Duels \u2018Iron Lung\u2019 at Box Office With $18M Opening, \u2018Melania\u2019 Beats Projections With $8M Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After last weekend\u2019s abysmal numbers, business is looking better at the box office to finish January thanks to stronger-than-expected opening weekends for 20th Century\u2019s \u201cSend Help<\/a>,\u201d Markiplier<\/a>\u2019s \u201cIron Lung<\/a>,\u201d and yes, even Amazon MGM<\/a>\u2019s \u201cMelania<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Industry estimates have \u201cSend Help<\/a>\u201d and \u201cIron Lung<\/a>\u201d in a tight race for the No. 1 spot. \u201cSend Help<\/a>,\u201d the Sam Raimi<\/a> horror thriller about a survivalist office worker stuck on an island with her abusive boss, is tracking for an $18 million opening from 3,475 locations after a $7.2 million opening day.<\/p>\n

But \u201cIron Lung<\/a>\u201d is giving it a run for its money with an estimated $17.3 million opening weekend from 3,015 locations, a wide release…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After last weekend\u2019s abysmal numbers, business is looking better at the box office to finish January thanks to stronger-than-expected opening weekends for 20th Century\u2019s \u201cSend Help,\u201d Markiplier\u2019s \u201cIron Lung,\u201d and yes, even Amazon MGM\u2019s \u201cMelania.\u201d Industry estimates have \u201cSend Help\u201d and \u201cIron Lung\u201d in a tight race for the No. 1 spot. \u201cSend Help,\u201d the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2259951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2259950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Send-Help-Duels-\u2018Iron-Lung-at-Box-Office-With-18M.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259952,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259950\/revisions\/2259952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}