Notably, Fox’s “The Revenant,” once considered a possible box office disaster with its gritty subject matter and reported $135 million budget, has earned $138.2 million to date in six weeks in theaters thanks in part to its awards hot streak with multiple wins for star Leonardo DiCaprio and a host of high profile Oscar nominations. Both fell only 23 percent from last weekend. Overall, there wasn’t much space for newcomers with strong holdovers like “The Revenant” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which took second and third place with $12.4 million and $10.8 million, respectively. The Weinstein Company’s Natalie Portman-led Western “Jane Got a Gun” misfired out of the gates, bringing in only $803,000 on a $25 million budget. “Fifty Shades of Grey” was released last February and its sequel isn’t expected until next year.
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You have to really hope you’re riding a wave of the popularity of the movie you’re spoofing.” “The reviews are never good on these movies. “Spoof movies and parodies have a very mixed box office record,” said Dergarabedian. Marlon Wayans co-wrote, stars in and produced the R-rated takeoff. The “Fifty Shades of Grey” parody “Fifty Shades of Black,” meanwhile, earned a modest $6.2 million, but it only cost a reported $5 million to produce. The opening is similar to last year’s “McFarland, USA,” another fact-based drama from Disney, which opened with $11 million in late February and went on to earn $44.4 million. Dergarabedian thinks that the nautical theme might have seemed too similar to the recently released “In the Heart of the Sea” for audiences.