The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes repeats in first as Napoleon and Wish stumble
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes held the top spot at the weekend box office. The film grossed $28.2 million to bring its domestic total to $98.4 million. Internationally, the film has grossed $56.2 million for a worldwide total to $154.6 million after two weeks.
With a reported budget of $200 million, it’s hard to not see the $20.4 million domestic opening weekend for Napoleon as anything but a rout. Since its opening the film has grossed $32.5 million domestically, it opened on Wednesday, and $46.3 million internationally. That’s a worldwide total of $78.8 million. It continues an uneven record and result for Ridley Scott and with middling reviews, it’ll be interesting to see what maneuvers this film has to improve its gross.
Walt Disney’s Wish was another bump in the road for the once dominant house of mouse with a weekend total of just $19.5 million. Domestically, the film has grossed $31.7 million since its Wednesday debut with another $17.3 million internationally for a worldwide debut of $49 million. It continues a rough year for Disney which has seen a string of films vastly underperforming. Are people waiting to watch these films on Disney+? Only Disney knows the answer.
Trolls Band Together slipped from second to fourth with $17.5 million over the weekend. The film has grossed $64.5 million domestically and over the week added $5.1 million internationally over the week to bring its total to $81.4 million there. Worldwide, the film has grossed $145.8 million.
Thanksgiving rounded out the top five with $7.3 million to bring its domestic total to $24.2 million. Over the week, the film over doubled its international gross adding $2.5 million to bring that to $4.9 million. Worldwide, the movie has grossed just under $29.1 million.
In comic film news…
The Marvels continues to stumble being knocked out of the top five after just three weeks. Coming in sixth, the film added an estimated $6.4 million to its domestic total to bring that to $76.9 million. Things are going a bit better internationally where the film added $15.7 million over the week to bring it to $112 million. Worldwide, the movie has grossed $188.9 million.
The week’s overall box office success…
Numbers have 53 films earning $116,002,064 from 33,729 theaters. That’s about the same as last weekend’s $115,477,664 from 31,770 theaters and 51 films. The average earning $3,439.24 is similar to the previous weekend’s $3,634.80.
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