VIDEO : ?Fifty Shades Freed? Whips Box Office Competition

Universal?s ?Fifty Shades Freed? led a trio of new releases at the box office, winning the weekend with an estimated $38.8 million from 3,768 screens. It?s a solid result for the $55 million film, hitting tracker expectations of an opening in the upper $30 million range. It?s also just 17 percent down from the $46.6 million start scored by last year?s ?Fifty Shades Darker.? As expected, critics panned the film with an 11 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, but opening night audiences gave it a B+ on CinemaScore, better than the C+ for the first film, ?Fifty Shades of Grey,? and matching the grade scored by ?Darker.?