Hidden Figures rockets to the top of the box office beating Fifty Shades Darker
Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore Melfi and distributed by Fox, has scored the number one position at the weekend box office collecting $3.2m.
Fifty Shades Darker earned $3.07m, falling short of the top position by less than $200,000 while the cult-classic sequel T2: Trainspotting, distributed by Sony, failed to make it into the top five with a weekend debut of only $370,000.
Hidden Figures is based on the real-life struggle of African-American female mathematicians during American space race to do their job for NASA amidst sexism and racism from their colleagues. One of the women, Katherine G. Johnson, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 for her work with NASA during the period.
To give Lion’s excellent run a bit of context —
it just blew past Mad Max Fury Road, & with some juice still in the tank, too.