“Hidden Figures” managed to slip past “Rogue One” at the box office with $22.8 million, Monday estimates show.
On Sunday, the “Star Wars” prequel (playing in 4,157 locations) and the Fox drama (playing in 2,471 locations) had finished a neck-and-neck race with “Rogue One” coming out on top by $200,000. Now, estimates show that “Hidden Figures” pulled ahead by roughly $1 million.
Fox and Chernin Entertainment’s film starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae follows the story of three female mathematicians at NASA during the 1960s who helped launch John Glenn into orbit. The film, with a budget of $25 million, has a CinemaScore of A+ and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 93 percent.