{"id":2272730,"date":"2026-02-08T17:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2272730"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:12:32","slug":"box-office-melania-plunges-67-to-ninth-place-send-help-remains-no-1-in-glacial-super-bowl-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/box-office-melania-plunges-67-to-ninth-place-send-help-remains-no-1-in-glacial-super-bowl-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: \u2018Melania\u2019 Plunges 67% to Ninth Place, \u2018Send Help\u2019 Remains No. 1 in Glacial Super Bowl Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Football festivities and frigid temperatures across the East Coast and Midwest kept moviegoers on the couch and contributed to a glacial Super Bowl weekend at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>Without any new releases from the major studios, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000600\/\">Sam Raimi<\/a>\u2019s survival thriller \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8036976\/\">Send Help<\/a>\u201d remained in first place with $10 million from 3,475 North American venues, a 47% drop from its $19.1 million debut. Meanwhile \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35291758\/\">Melania<\/a>,\u201d a documentary about the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11035510\/\">first lady<\/a> of the United States, plunged to the No. 9 spot with $2.37 million from 2,003 theaters, representing a steep 67% decline in ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Bowl, the biggest TV event of the year, almost always brings the box office to a halt. This year\u2019s revenues topped out with roughly $60 million, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0637125\/\">Comscore<\/a>. That\u2019s not the worst Super Bowl haul of all time \u2014 that record belongs to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32230159\/\">2024<\/a>\u2019s dismal $38.9 million showing, led by \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15009428\/\">Argylle<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt21188080\/\">Lisa Frankenstein<\/a>\u201d \u2014 but turnout is far behind the pre-pandemic era.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football festivities and frigid temperatures across the East Coast and Midwest kept moviegoers on the couch and contributed to a glacial Super Bowl weekend at the box office. Without any new releases from the major studios, Sam Raimi\u2019s survival thriller \u201cSend Help\u201d remained in first place with $10 million from 3,475 North American venues, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2272731,"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-2272730","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\/02\/Box-Office-\u2018Melania-Plunges-67-to-Ninth-Place-\u2018Send-Help.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272730","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=2272730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272732,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272730\/revisions\/2272732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}