'Hidden Figures' wins a dismal MLK weekend at the box office

Oscar contender "Hidden Figures" won the weekend box office for a second straight week taking in an estimated $20.45 million ($25.3 million by Monday), according to boxofficepro.com, but the real story over this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend is how poorly the new releases did. And we mean historically awful.
MLK weekend has never been a big one for the movie business but this year is filled with bombs. Paramount's kids action movie "Monster Trucks," Ben Affleck's "Live By Night," Mark W