"Hidden Figures" goes on to top of box office in its fourth weekend

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The historical space program drama "Hidden Figures" went to the top of North American weekend box office in its fourth weekend of release and second weekend of expanded screening in theaters on Sunday.

In its fourth week of exhibition, "Hidden Figures" was number one with a 20.5 million U.S. dollars take predicted for the Friday-through-Sunday window. Through the Monday Martin Luther King Jr. American national holiday, it is predicted to end the four-day weekend with over 25.3 million dollars in ticket sales.

The modern musical romance feature film "La La Land" rose to No. two this weekend, opening 333 more locations of screening. It was predicted to gross 14.5 million dollars in sales in its sixth weekend on the charts.

"La La Land" made its all 7 nominations to real awards at the 74th Golden Globe Awards held on last Sunday night, including best motion picture in comedy or musical, best actor and actress in comedy or musical and best director, which fueled its box office revenue. Up to now, this 30 million dollars budget film has grossed 74.1 million dollars in U.S. and Canada.

Universal' s animated musical "Sing" was in third place, at 13.8 million dollars over the three days ending Sunday night.

The Star Wars empire rolled on, with "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" estimated at 13.8 million dollars in three-day sales, and 498.9 million dollars in estimated sales over its five-week run in North America, placed at No. 5 this weekend. Its global box office income is about 980 million dollars.

Three movies debuted this weekend, and none of them did better than number five. Overall, the 182 million dollars in total estimated sales made this Martin Luther King Jr. weekend marks the seventh-best in Hollywood record-keeping.

Rounding out the top 10 movies were "The Bye Bye Man" (13.4 million dollars), "Patriots Day" (12 million), "Monster Trucks" (10.5 million), "Sleepless" (8.5 million), "Underworld: Blood Wars"(5.8 million) and "Passengers" (5.6 million).