It was a good news/bad news kind of weekend for Fifty Shades of Grey. The R-rated drama managed to maintain its dominant stance on top of the box office charts with $23.2 million, easily holding off the weekend’s newcomers, but it suffered a tremendous drop from last weekend’s $85.1 million opening. That’s down a hefty 73% and doesn’t exactly spell success in terms of long legs at the domestic box office, but when counting in its gigantic $280.5 million international total, the film has now grossed over $400 million worldwide.

Elsewhere, the spectacular Kingsman: The Secret Service remained in second place overall, falling 52% to a $17.5 million take, bringing its domestic total to a respectable $67.1 million. That's solid, especially for an R-rated actioner. Say what you will about Fifty Shades’ box office success, but it’s kind of neat to see two R-rated movies taking the top spots for two weekends in a row. It’s further proof that, despite Hollywood’s tendency towards four-quadrant tentpoles, adults are still turning out for adult-centric films.

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Image via 20th Century Fox

That being said, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water still took the third place spot with $15.5 million, while the Disney’s sports drama McFarland, USA narrowly took the fourth slot with $11.3 million, edging out the well-received comedy The DUFF, which exceeded expectations with $11 million.

It was bad news only for the comedy sequel Hot Tub Time Machine 2, which managed a mere $5.8 million for the weekend after suffering brutal reviews. Audiences didn’t seem to take to the film any better, as it received a C- Cinemascore. The silver lining is that it only cost $14 million to make, but still, that’s a mighty low opening weekend performance.

In specialty box office, Argentina’s Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee Wild Tales picked up a swell $85,131 from four theaters in New York and Los Angeles, riding a wave of buzz for the anthology dark comedy.

Check out the full Top 10 below.

Title

Weekend

Total

1.

Fifty Shades of Grey

$23,246,000

$130,148,000

2.

Kingsman: The Secret Service

$17,525,000

$67,106,000

3.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

$15,500,000

$125,172,000

4.

McFarland, USA

$11,315,000

$11,315,000

5.

The DUFF

$11,025,000

$11,025,000

6

American Sniper

$9,650,000

$319,607,000

7

Hot Tub Time Machine 2

$5,800,000

$5,800,000

8.

Jupiter Ascending

$3,660,000

$39,517,000

9.

The Imitation Game

$2,565,000

$83,921,000

10.

Paddington

$2,289,000

$67,661,000

 

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Image via Lionsgate and CBS Films