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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Repeats, Becomes the Top Domestic Film of 2017, and Crosses $1 billion

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It was a repeat weekend for the top six films with Star Wars: The Last Jedi remaining in first place. The film earned an estimated $52.4 million to bring its domestic total to $517.1 million and worldwide the film has crossed the $1 billion mark with $1.040 billion.

The film has also passed Beauty and the Beast to be the top domestic grossing film of the year. Beauty was top with $504 million with Wonder Woman now in third with $412.6 million.

In a close second place was Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle which brought in $50.6 million to bring its domestic total to $169.8 million. The film has earned $322.8 million worldwide with a budget of $90 million.

In third place was Pitch Perfect 3 earning an estimated $17.8 million to bring its domestic total to $64.3 million and $92.9 million worldwide on a $45 million budget.

The Greatest Showman was in fourth place with $15.3 million to bring its total to $48.8 million domestically and $84 million worldwide on a $84 million budget.

Rounding out the top five was Ferdinand with $11.7 million for a domestic total of $53.8 million on a $111 million budget. The film has earned $125.7 million worldwide.

Repeating in sixth was Coco with $6.6 million to bring its domestic total to $178.9 million and $537.9 million worldwide.

When it comes to comic films…

Justice League slipped to #15 from #14 with an estimated $1.3 million added to its domestic total which now stands at $225.6 million. Worldwide the film has earned $652.6 million.

Thor: Ragnarok was right behind at #16 with an estimated $1 million added to its domestic total which is now $311.4 million. Worldwide the film has earned $848 million.

My Friend Dahmer is continuing to bring in the dollars with $3,500 at #36 bringing its domestic total to $1.3 million.

We’ll be back in an hour for more of a dive into 2017’s comic film adaptations.

The Last Jedi Wins the Weekend With 2, 3, 4 for New Films

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As no surprise, Star Wars: The Last Jedi won the holiday weekend with an estimated $68.5 million three day weekend. With a steep 68.9% drop from the previous weekend, the film is expected to do well this Christmas Day with all the films out doing good business.

Domestically the film has earned $365.1 million with the foreign box office bringing in $380.3 million. Worldwide the film stands at $745.4 million after a week. It will likely top $1 billion before its run ends.

Domestically, the film is $175 million behind where Star Wars: The Force Awakens was at the same point in its run but it’s ahead $79 million where Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was. It opened $27.9 million behind Force Awakens and $65 million ahead Rogue One.

In second place was Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle which earned an estimated $34 million domestically off of a $90 million budget. Domestically, the film has earned $50.6 million and it has also earned $49.5 million at the foreign box office for a total of $100.1 million.

Pitch Perfect 3 took third with an estimated $20.5 million domestically off of a $45 million budget. The film has also earned $9.8 million at the foreign box office for a total of $30.3 million.

Coming in fourth place was The Greatest Showman which earned $8.6 million over the weekend to bring its week total to $13.2 million off of an $84 million budget.

Rounding out the top five for the weekend was Ferdinand which added $7.1 million to its domestic total to bring that to $26.5 million and $34.2 million worldwide. With a budget of $111 million the film isn’t doing well and may be the stake through the heart of the animated division that’ll go to Disney as part of the Disney/Fox deal.

When it comes to comic adaptations….

Justice League was #13 for the weekend adding $1.1 million to its domestic total for the weekend bringing it to $222.7 million and $646.7 million worldwide. The film will end the year most likely at #12.

Thor: Ragnarok was #18 for the weekend and added $814,000 to its domestic total to bring that to $309.1 million and $844.5 million worldwide. It’ll end the year at #7.

My Friend Dahmer added $1,100 to its domestic total to bring that to $1.3 million and came in at #29 for the weekend.

We’ll be back in an hour for a deeper dive into this year’s comic adaptations box office numbers.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Opens With the Second Largest Ever

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It’s no surprise, but Star Wars: The Last Jedi ruled the box office delivering the second largest opening ever. The film earned an estimated $220 million, the second largest. Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened with $247.9 million in 2015. The film is only the second film to gross over $100 million on opening day (with its $45 million Thursday preview, the second largest ever), it also had the second largest single day, the second largest Friday, and is tied with Force Awakens as the fastest films to reach $100 million.

The film’s audience was mostly male at 58% and 37% was 25 years or under. The audience reaction is where things are interesting. The film received an “A” CinemaScore but its RottenTomatoes score is just 56% from the audience vs. 93% from critics and the IMDB rating is 8, which is below Rogue One and Force Awakens. Metacritic has the film at an 86 from critics and a user score of 4.9. Reading the comments on that site would back the belief of a concerted effort to sink the online scores for the film and “hardcore” Star Wars fans angry with the new direction. Though there’s been claims by some, evidence isn’t clear.

The film opened with $230 million overseas, the tenth largest international opening. The $450 million total is the fifth largest global opening ever. The film hasn’t opened in China yet, that happens on January 5th. That major market hurt the film when it comes to being higher up in the record books. The film had the second largest opening in Germany, Australia, and Sweden, and the third largest in the UK. The film pushed Disney over the $2 billion mark domestically, Warner Bros. is the only other studio to do so in 2017. This is the third year Disney has crossed that mark.

In second place was Ferdinand, which opened with $13.3 million in an attempt at counter programming. The film is the lowest opening ever for a Blue Sky release. That low opening is not a good sign for the studio which was acquired in the Disney purchase of Fox and whose future is up in the air. With a reported $111 million budget, that opening is not good. The film did receive an “A” CinemaScore, so its legs should be good over the holidays. Internationally the film earned $6.2 million from 18 markets for a $19.5 million worldwide debut. It adds 44 markets next weekend.

Coco dropped to third place earning an estimated $10 million bringing its domestic total to $150.8 million. At the foreign box office, the film has earned $297.4 million for a worldwide total of $448.2 million.

In fourth place was Wonder which has been doing well above expectations. The film added $5.4 million to its domestic total to bring that to $109.3 million. The film has earned $44 million at the foreign box office for a worldwide total of $153.7 million.

Rounding out the top five was Justice League which added $4.2 million to its domestic total to bring it to $219.5 million. The film also added an estimated $5.3 million from 65 foreign markets to bring the international total to $414.5 million. Worldwide the film has earned almost $634 million.

When it comes to other comic film adaptations….

Thor: Ragnarok was #7 at the box office dropping from last week’s #5. The film earned an estimated $3 million to bring its domestic total to $306.4 million. The film has also earned $535.4 million at the foreign box office bringing its worldwide total to $841.8 million.

My Friend Dahmer added $40,000 to its domestic total to bring that to $1.2 million.

We’ll be back in an hour for a deeper dive into this year’s comic adaptations.