This is ResetEra's weekend box office thread. While the OP focuses on the popular weekend tallies, we typically discuss box office throughout the week as well when notable films are playing. New threads are are posted each Sunday morning, between 8-10am PST.
DOMESTIC WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
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WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE UPDATES
Aquaman - $94M opening in China - Third biggest superhero launch ever there after Infinity War and Venom
Venom - $851M
Bohemian Rhapsody - $597M
Fantastic Beasts 2 - $569M
A Star is Born - $370M
The Grinch - $322M
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms - $140M
Creed 2 - $120M
Robin Hood - $66M
Widows - $65M
Mortal Engines - $18M
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'Ralph' Keeps No. 1 Away From Greedy 'Grinch' For Third Weekend In A Row With $16M+
After a nail-biting face-off between Disney's Ralph Breaks the Internet and Universal/Ilumination's The Grinch for No. 1 in the slowest of slowest weekends, Ralph won No. 1 by a distance, $16.1M to $15.1M. Essentially, Ralph 2 had the better Saturday over Grinch with roughly $7.8M to $7.2M. Similar to Thanksgiving openers before it, Moana and Coco, Ralph 2 notches a three-weekend No. 1 streak. Rivals believe that Ralph 2 will come in around $16.4M.
An interesting piece of B.O. trivia here is that it will rep the first time in box office history that two animated films have ruled the top two spots at the weekend B.O. for two weekends in a row. All previous instances where two feature toons shared the top two spots (i.e. Brave and Madagascar 3 in June 22-24, 2012; Beowulf and Bee Movie in Nov. 16-18, 2007; The Incredibles and Polar Express during Nov. 12-14, 2004 and A Bug's Life and Rugrats Movie over Nov. 27-29, 1998) were only confined to one weekend, and never extended into a second.
We'll have three animated features in the top ten next weekend when Sony's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse arrives with a projected opening of $35M+, the first of many event pics to ring in the year-end holiday season. The movie arrives already an awards contender with a Golden Globe animated film nomination and NY Film Critics Circle win for Best Animated Film, and a 99% fresh on RT to top it off. The studio held paid sneaks on Friday night at 7PM and on Saturday at 2PM and we hear there was a terrific audience response with multiple sellouts in various locations.
Warner Bros./DC's Aquaman doesn't hold sneaks until Dec. 15 stateside, but it's already playing in China, and executives on the Burbank lot are so excited by the near $94M results, they're doing water follies. Aquaman dominated 85% of the Middle Kingdom's weekend business and drew $14M at 559 Imax venues, making is the best WB large-format debut ever in the market.
Paramount's Bumblebee also held paid 7PM sneaks last night at 325 theaters. We here that seats began to sell out as the night drew near. Given the amount of theaters that Bumblebee was playing out, it's sneak B.O. is not at the $1M-plus level as Sony's Amazon-promoted launches of Jumanji 2 ($1.86M) and Hotel Transylvania 3 ($1.3M) only because those titles previewed at 1,000-plus major circuit theaters. Bumblebee holds its Hollywood premiere tonight.
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DOMESTIC WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
*Click the chart to view the full source
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE UPDATES
Aquaman - $94M opening in China - Third biggest superhero launch ever there after Infinity War and Venom
Venom - $851M
Bohemian Rhapsody - $597M
Fantastic Beasts 2 - $569M
A Star is Born - $370M
The Grinch - $322M
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms - $140M
Creed 2 - $120M
Robin Hood - $66M
Widows - $65M
Mortal Engines - $18M
Weekend Box Office Archive and Appendix
Thread Archive
Web links to box office resources
Explanation of Box Office Terms, Abbreviations, and Concepts
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