It’s a new film at the top of the box office and with a semi-decent opening too. The Croods: A New Age opened with $9.7 million for the weekend. The film opened on Wednesday before the Thanksgiving holiday and has earned $17 million over its five days. It also earned $20.8 million at the international box office for a worldwide total of $37.8 million. In a rough situation right now, that’s a solid opening weekend for a film and one of the better of the year.

In second place was last weekend’s champ, Freaky. The film dropped 39.9% to earn $770,000 over the weekend. The film has made a little over $7 million over its three weeks at the domestic box office. At the international box office, the film added about $1.1 million to its total. Worldwide, the film has earned $11.9 million.

The War with Grandpa also slipped one spot to come in third. The film added $643,937 to its total over the weekend a dip of 13.8% from the previous weekend. Domestically, the film has earned $17.3 million after 8 weeks. It earned about $200,000 at the international box office for a worldwide total of $25.6 million so far.

In fourth place was Let Him Go which dropped 37.4% and earned $453,000. The film has earned $8.7 million after four weeks. It earned about $1,500 at the international box office to bring that number to $73,250. Worldwide, the film has earned $8.8 million.

Rounding out the top five was Come Play which dipped 31.2%. The film earned $387,000 domestically to bring its total to $8.8 million. Internationally, the film added about $210,000 after the week to bring that total to $2.1 million. Worldwide, the film has earned $10.9 million.

In comic related films…

The Empty Man came in at #16 earning an estimated $8,000, a drop of 68.6% from the previous week. That brings its domestic total to just under $3 million. Internationally, the film earned about $110,000 over the week to bring the total to $665,628. Worldwide, the film has earned $3.6 million after 5 weeks.

The New Mutants came in at #18 earning an estimated $7,000 a drop of 83.2%. That brings the domestic total to $23.8 million. The film earned about $100,000 over the week internationally to bring that total to $22.3 million. Worldwide, the film has earned $46.1 million.

We’ll have updated numbers later in the week but initially, the weekend box office saw $14,177,847 from 37 films and 15,714 theaters. That’s a vast improvement from the previous weekend’s $6.4 million. The average per-theater gross was $902.24, again an improvement from the previous weekend’s $385.81. We’ll have an update when the numbers are finalized. (Updated)