The first month of the new year has come to a close and thanks to a major new animated release and top box office hold overs the month finished with a solid performance. Kung Fu Panda 3 opened this weekend and easily took the top box office spot with a $41,000,000 take. It did better than expectations and became the top grossing animated film to open in January. The Revenant held strong with a small drop and moved into the number two spot on the list bringing in another $12,400,000. While Star Wars is still drawing a crowd after nearly two months in theaters, bringing in $10,8000,000. Which means that it will break the $900,000,000 mark by weeks end. Moving itself up to the number two spot on the all time international scale as it is already well over a billion in box office receipts around the world. The other two movies that opened this weekend didn’t fair so well. The Finest Hour opened at number 4 with a $10,300,000 take and the new Wayans Brother’s movie, Fifty Shades of Black opened all the way down at number 9 with only a little over $6,000,000.
| TW | LW | Title | Studio | Weekend Gross | % Change | Average | Total Gross | Budget* | Week # | ||
| 1 | N | Kung Fu Panda 3 | Fox | $41,000,000 | – | $10,367 | $41,000,000 | – | 1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | The Revenant | Fox | $12,400,000 | -22.5% | $3,724 | $138,171,368 | $135 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | BV | $10,782,000 | -23.4% | $4,218 | $895,426,162 | $200 | 7 | ||
| 4 | N | The Finest Hours | BV | $10,327,000 | – | $3,286 | $10,327,000 | – | 1 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Ride Along 2 | Uni. | $8,345,520 | -33.0% | $3,460 | $70,775,210 | $40 | 3 | ||
| 6 | 5 | The Boy (2016) | STX | $7,894,000 | -26.8% | $2,955 | $21,527,916 | $10 | 2 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Dirty Grandpa | LGF | $7,575,000 | -31.8% | $2,601 | $22,821,010 | – | 2 | ||
| 8 | 6 | The 5th Wave | Sony | $7,000,000 | -32.2% | $2,407 | $20,188,149 | $38 | 2 | ||
| 9 | N | Fifty Shades of Black | ORF | $6,186,648 | – | $2,982 | $6,186,648 | – | 1 | ||
| 10 | 7 | 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi | Par. | $6,000,000 | -33.6% | $2,141 | $42,573,845 | $50 | 3 | ||