Rachel McAdams in Send Help
‘Send Help’ Offsets Slow Super Bowl Weekend Box Office With $10 Million in Ticket Sales
February 8, 2026
Disney-owned 20th Century Studios’ survival thriller Send Help beat expectations, adding $10 million in second-weekend ticket sales (through Feb. 8) to offset a slow box office due to Super Bowl LX and ongoing severe winter weather conditions on the East Coast.
Directed by Sam Raimi and starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien, the ‘R’-rated movie has generated almost $54 million in global revenue, including $36 million across North American screens.
Angel Studios’ crowdsourced romantic dramedy Solo Mio, starring Kevin James as a jilted groom, opened at No. 2 with $7.2 million in revenue.
“This is an excellent opening for a romantic comedy made on a micro-budget ($4 million),” David A. Gross, with industry newsletter FranchiseRE, wrote in a post. “By early next week, Angel Studio’s share of the box office should be close to the film’s production budget.”
Markiplier’s self-distributed horror film Iron Lung ranked No. 3 with $6.25 million in second weekend ticket sales, a 66% drop from its $17.8 million opening weekend.
Bleecker Street’s Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience, a concert movie featuring behind-the-scenes footage of the Korean boy band Stray Kids at SoFi arena in Los Angeles, sold $5.5 million in revenue, and more than $19 million globally, underscoring the enduring appeal of K-pop music.
“This band’s fan base is showing up in modest but respectable numbers,” Gross wrote.
Disney’s animated box office blockbuster Zootopia 2 added 4 million in sixth-weekend ticket sales, upping its global tally past $1.8 billion — a strong showing considering the movie has been available across digital retail platforms since Jan. 27.
Amazon MGM Studios’ First Lady documentary Melania saw $2.4 million in sophomore ticket sales, upping its 10-day total to $13.3 million. The tally trailed the $3.5 million in eighth weekend revenue for 20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire and Ash, upping its global haul to $1.42 billion.
Paramount’s The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants added $2.31 million in revenue, including $220,000 across North America and $2.1 million internationally.
The studio’s Primate sci-fi thriller saw another $185,000 in domestic revenue, followed by $1.7 million across foreign theaters.
Finally, Lionsgate scored its own Super Bowl weekend win as the thriller The Housemaid topped $354 million at the worldwide box office. The cumulative totals for the film, as of Feb. 8, are an estimated $231 million international and $123.7 million domestic.