Beating out all expectations headed into the weekend, STX’s drama comedy The Upside scored an excellent $19.5 million debut – good enough for first place, unseating Warners’ Aquaman. Meanwhile, A Dog’s Way Home had a decent opening, On the Basis of Sex and If Beale Street Could Talk did okay business in their nationwide expansions, while Replicas was dead on arrival.

The Upside marks a major milestone for STX Entertainment, who began releasing films back in 2015 with The Gift, and has seen many ups and downs since then. After a dismal summer last year, however, the studio desperately needed a hit, making The Upside an even bigger success. Granted, mid January is hardly the most impressive frame to win the weekend, but the fact that it wound up much higher than expectations is the real victory here. Critics didn’t dig the title with a weak 40%, but audiences seemed to enjoy it, giving it an excellent A Cinemascore. Without much in the way of competition in the coming weeks, The Upside may leg it out past $60 million, which would be a huge success.

Widely expected to retain first for a fourth weekend, Aquaman still did solid business, even if it had to settle for fourth place. Down 44%, the superhero blockbuster became the latest title to join the billion dollar club as it surpassed the unadjusted worldwide take of 2008’s The Dark Knight. The title continues to push towards $300 million domestic, even if it may take a hit when it loses many of its premium and IMAX screens to Glass next weekend.

Among the other holdovers, Spider-Verse fared the best, dipping just 31% as it continues to ride a wave of excellent word of mouth towards $150 million domestic. Sony’s animated comic book adaptation also surpassed $300 million worldwide, as it continues to push up the ranks and possibly become Sony Animation’s highest grossing release. Mary Poppins Returns didn’t perform as well, down 55% as it passed $150 million in its fourth weekend of release. Bumblebee dropped 49%, which doesn’t bode very well for its chances of beating The Last Knight‘s domestic total, but considering it has collected $364 million worldwide, that isn’t too big of a blow towards its sequel potential.

Last weekend’s Escape Room continued its impressive run, down just 51% – an excellent hold for a January horror film. With $32 million in the bank, Sony’s sleeper hit will likely approach $50 million, an excellent result for a film that cost just $9 million to produce.

Entertainment Studios added yet another flop to the pile with Replicas, which opened all the way down in tenth place with a pathetic $2.5 million. Critics rejected the title with a scathing 11% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and audiences weren’t much happier with a sour C Cinemascore. Produced for a whopping $30 million, Entertainment Studios acquired the title for just $4 million, and spent a light $10.5 million marketing it. Still, this kind of result means everyone involved will lose money, as it averaged just over $1,000 from 2,329 locations.

If Beale Street Could Talk and On the Basis of Sex both went wide in 1,018 and 1,923 locations respectively and tallied $2.3 million and $6.2 million each. Beale Street mirrored Moonlight‘s performance somewhat, as that film also went nationwide in its fifth weekend, but in 650 locations as opposed to over 1,000. The per theater average for Moonlight was slightly lower than Beale Street, which is impressive considering the difference in location counts. On the Basis of Sex was certainly the more commercially accessible of the two, as the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic has already collected $10.5 million. Both titles should likely stick around for a while thanks to a healthy dose of awards season buzz on the horizon.