After a few weekends of pure misery, the box office finally got a slight boost due to there being, you know, a new release. However that’s more or less where the good news ends. Argyllle, a film you might have seen a few TV spots for during football games lately, got off to a start of just $18 million. In fairness, that’s better than tracking initially had it, but only just. Argylle carries a heavy price tag of $200 million, so I guess that CGI cat in the trailer was pretty fucking expensive.

For my money, Argylle looked like a lot of fun, but obviously its concept is a tough sell with audiences, at least for the kind of money it needed to bring to the bank in order to be profitable. Also, as I previously noted, it’s the first real new wide picture for several weeks, and with that came the risk of overexposure. There was a lot of marketing for Argylle even with Universal bullishly only ever making one full preview for it. So people may have been tired of it before it even came out.

Believe it or not, though, Argylle might lead the box office two weekends in a row, as I highly doubt next Friday’s quirky horror comedy Lisa Frankenstein is going to bring in anything beyond a niche crowd. From there, we have Bob Marley: One Love and the already maligned Madame Web coming out on Valentine’s Day, so hey, things might pick up a little then.

The only other new “movie” this week is The Chosen, which is really just several episodes of its fourth season put together into a feature-length runtime. Clearly this is going for church groups as far as ticket sales go, and for what it’s worth, it…worked? That’s right, The Chosen has our number two spot, with $6 million over the weekend and $7.4 million since opening on Thursday. I guess folks were really eager to find out what happened to that Jesus fella.

Elsewhere at the box office, Wonka has now surpassed the $200 million mark stateside. Remember when everyone was saying this film would fail? And hey, Anyone But You has managed to leg it out to $76 million so far, meaning that Hallmark hasn’t completely killed the experience of the theatrical rom com, but you might need to include some graphic nudity to fill up those seats.

Lastly, the Oscar nominees currently in theaters…aren’t. People simply aren’t showing up for American Fiction and Poor Things despite them both managing to make it into the top ten.

Anyway, the top ten via Deadline

1.) Argylle (App/Uni) 3,605 theaters, Fri $6.5M Sat $6.9M Sun $4.5M 3-day $18M/ Wk 1

2.) The Chosen (Fath) 2,248 theaters Fri $1.75M, Sat. $2.4M Sun $1.8M 3-day $6M/Total $7.4M/Wk 1

3.) The Beekeeper (AMZ MGM) 3,277 (-60) theaters, Fri $1.3M (-28%) Sat $2.4M Sun $1.4M 3-day $5.2M (-21%), Total $49.4M/Wk 4

4.) Wonka (WB) 2,901 (-113) theaters, Fri $1M (-24%) Sat $2.2M Sun $1.47M 3-day $4.76M (-16%), Total $201.1M/Wk 8

5.) Migration (Ill/Uni) 2,830 (-140) Fri $840K (-19%) Sat $2M Sun $1.2M 3-day $4.1M (-16%), Total $106.2M/ Wk 7

6.) Mean Girls (Par) 3,107 (-437) theaters, Fri $1M (-47%) Sat $1.8M Sun $1.1M 3-day $4M (-42%), Total $66.3M/Wk 4

7.) Anyone But You (Sony) 2,619 (-266) (-43) Fri $1M (-29%) Sat $1.5M Sun $915K 3-day $3.5M (-24%),Total $76.2M/Wk 7

8.) American Fiction (AMZ MGM) 1,902 (+200) theaters, $615K (-21%) Sat $1.08M Sun $598K 3-day $2.3M (-11%), Total $15M/Wk 8

9.) Poor Things (Sea) 1,950 (-350) Fri $592K (-30%) Sat $940K Sun $596K 3-day $2.1M (-28%)/Total $28.1M/Wk 9

10.) Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (WB) 1,742 (-376) theaters, Fri $440K (-33%) Sat $955K Sun $620K 3-day $2M (-26%) /Total $120.7M/Wk 7