Let it Mo! Let it Mo! Let it Mo(ana)!: Weekend Box Office Results (Dec. 13-15)
Moana 2 might be slowing down a lil bit it's still 3 for 3 with a
$26.6M weekend. Its $337.5M running total makes it the 5th highest grossing movie of the year. It's not holding up during the weekdays but the weekends have really propelled it forward. It's also the #4 highest grossing film from Disney Animation Studios, over $100M more than
Moana's $337.5M.
Zootopia is third on the list with sales of
$341.2M. That'll fall in the next few days.
With
$717M banked globally, it's the 4th biggest movie worldwide this year and for Disney Animation Studios. Not bad for a movie originally conceived as a Disney+ series.
Wicked continues to kill it domestically, with another
$22.5M. It's the 4th highest grossing movie this year with
$359M, just behind
Despicable Me 4's $361M. And, again, I still have no interest in seeing it.
We got a new entry in third place. That would be
Kraven the Hunter opening with a scintillating
$11M.
The lowest opening for a Sony Spider-Man-less Marvel movie, beating
Madame Web's $15.3M.
This indeed was Kraven's "Last Hunt."
That's too bad cuz this is one that I actually would want to see. Aaron Taylor-Johnson can't catch a break.
The Fall Guy had good legs but underperformed with its opening and overseas. Then this debacle.
It's no wonder they dropped that
28 Years Later trailer when this movie came out with him front and center.
You know Sony is yearning for the days when
Morbius was opening number one with
$39M. As it is, that's all she wrote for Sony's Spider-Man universe. They will focus on
Spider-Man 4 and
Beyond the Spider-Verse.
I would say "at least they tried
" but they really didn't. You don't put Spider-Man in any of these movies: what the hell you think is going to happen?
Gladiator ll took 4th place with
$7.8M. It's made
$145.9M, which is good for 14th place this year, passing
The Wild Robot's $142.9M. It still has a ways to go before it can even dream of catching the original
Gladiator's $187.7M, which is actually
$375.2M when you adjust for inflation.
Opening in 5th place was
The Lord of the Rings: The War of Rohirrim with a paltry
$4.6M.
Animation looked janky as fukk to me so I'ma do like a lotta people did and skip this one.
Notables
Red One is now streaming on Prime Video, where I watched it last night. Despite that, it's still playing in 3,003 theaters and made
$4.4M. You never know, it might make it into the top five when the official numbers come out. It's shown good legs and is up to
$92.6M, just $300K behind
The Fall Guy's $92.9M final. And you know what? I enjoyed it.
After making
$4.6M last weekend in it's 10th Anniversary re-release,
Interstellar did another
$3.3M. That makes
$11.7M in total, bringing the Nolan classic to
$199.8M.
Top Ten
Rank | LW | Movie | Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor |
1 | 1 | Moana 2 | $26,621,000 | -48.1% | 4,000 | $337,516,469 | 3 | Disney |
2 | 2 | Wicked | $22,500,000 | -38.3% | 3,689 | $359,038,440 | 4 | Universal |
3 | - | Kraven the Hunter | $11,000,000 | - | 3,211 | $11,000,000 | 1 | Sony |
4 | 3 | Gladiator II | $7,801,000 | -38% | 3,224 | $145,935,658 | 4 | Paramount |
5 | - | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | $4,600,000 | - | 2,602 | $4,600,000 | 1 | Warner Bros. |
6 | 5 | Red One | $4,400,000 | -37.2% | 3,003 | $92,604,878 | 5 | Amazon MGM |
7 | 4 | Pushpa: The Rule - Part 2 | $3,700,000 | -60.2% | 631 | $13,000,000 | 2 | AA Films |
8 | 6 | Interstellar:
2024 Re-Release | $3,315,000 | -28% | 321 | $11,781,083 | 2 | Paramount |
9 | - | Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem | $2,328,339 | - | 641 | $2,328,339 | 1 | Trafalgar Releasing |
10 | 10 | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | $1,350,000 | -10.4% | 1,519 | $36,663,106 | 6 | Lionsgate |