Box Office -- March 23-25

Black Panther has now become Disney-Marvel's highest grossing stateside release. (And a new animated feature's coast to coast debut is sadly underwhelming.)

Three Days of Grosses

1) Pacific Rim Uprising -- Uni/Leg -- 3,708 -- $26.2M (1st wkend)

2) Black Panther -- Dis -- 3,370 (-464) -- $16.6M (-38%) -- $630.9M

3) I Can Only Imagine -- RSA -- 2,253 (+624) -- $13.7M (-20%) $38.1m

4) Sherlock Gnomes -- PAR/MGM -- 3,662 -- $10.3M (1st wkend)

5) Tomb Raider -- WB/MGM -- 3,854 -- $10M (-58%) -- $41.3M

6) A Wrinkle In Time -- Dis 3,423 (-557) -- $8.1M (-50%) -- $73.9M

7) Love, Simon -- Fox -- 2,434 (+32) -- $7.9M (-32%) -- $23.7M

8) Paul, Apostle Of Christ -- Sony -- 1,473 -- $4.95M (1st wkend)

9) Midnight Sun -- GR -- 2,173 -- $4.2M (1st wkend)

10) Game Night -- WB/NL -- 1,866 (-820) -- $4.1M (-27%) -- $60.8M

The only animated feature in the Top Ten is Sherlock Gnomes, followup to Gnomeo & Juliet, the Kelly Asbury-directed (and written) feature released by Disney/Touchstone seven years ago. G & J was an under-the-radar hit that collected $193,967,670 on a $36 million budget, making it highly profitable for Disney.

Despite the tall grosses, Disney has moved on from garden gnomes, and Paramount Animation, with M-G-M as a junior partner, is releasing the followup. Sherlock Gnomes's first weekend take will be roughly 40% of the original's, on a budget of $59 million.

Will the picture end up in profits? That depends on how the overseas market performs, and whether Sherlock Gnoes can hold in its second weekend. Unfortunately the first weekend in the United States and Canada has been nothing to gladden hearts in Paramount's executive suites, but maybe the feature will do better business in foreign lands.

But all is not gloom. Wes Anderson's stop motion opus Isle of Dogs will take in $1.7 million in 27 theaters over the weekend, giving it a per-screen average of $62,900. Now if it can just keep those per-screen figures up when it goes wide, we're looking at a blockbuster.

And Peter Rabbit out of the Top Ten at #12 after seven weeks, now holds $106,766,715 (domestic) in his small, furry paws.