Refresh for more and chart…It’s bound to be one of the lowest overall grossing weekends of 2025 with around $63M for all movies, and there’s not even a snowstorm to blame. That’s how this part of the calendar typically swings at the box office.

Lionsgate had its second number-one opening at the box office, as Flight Risk took the top spot over the weekend.

Like its fellow January release “Den of Thieves: Pantera,” “Flight Risk” follows the Lionsgate blueprint of being a low budget thrill ride financed through slate deals, co-production partnerships and foreign sales that will allow it to clear a low break-even point.

Despite the turbulence, Mel Gibson’s “Flight Risk” managed to open No. 1 at the box office with a modest $12 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

"Flight Risk," an action thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and directed by Mel Gibson, was No. 1 in a glacially slow weekend at the box office.

Critics lambasted it and audiences didn't grade it much better. But despite the turbulence, Mel Gibson's 'Flight Risk' managed to open No. 1 at the box office.