Encanto Tops Quiet Box Office Weekend to Begin December

After full bellies from Thanksgiving weekend, theater audiences stayed away from the movies, especially with no major film openings. As a result, Walt Disney family animated film Encanto remained on top after a huge opening from the previous weekend.

The Colombian-themed film with voices from Stephanie Beatriz and John Leguizamo earned $12.7 million, a decrease of 53.2 percent from the previous weekend. Its worldwide haul passed the $100 million mark with a total of $116 million. Despite the 50 percent-plus drops, it falls in line with other Disney animated rollouts, including Frozen II, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Coco, and Moana.

Sony Pictures’ Ghostbusters: Afterlife is holding strong to second place with $10.3 million in its third week of release to cross the $100 million mark domestically to $102 million. It fell 57.2 percent from the previous weekend. Its worldwide numbers climbed to $145 million to date.

In third place, the drama House of Gucci remained in the spot with $$6.77 million, a drop of 53 percent. Its cumulative haul reached $33.6 million domestically.

Fanthom Events released its special event musical film with Christmas with the Chosen: The Messengers. The film earned $4.1 million over the weekend after opening earlier this week to be in fourth place for the weekend. It totaled $8.77 million since its mid-week opening.

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For the final spot, Marvel’s Eternals fell one spot to fifth place with $3.93 million, a decrease of 50.3 percent. It reached a domestic milestone of $165.5 million, but far less than The jury is still out if it’ll surpass other Marvel releases this year with Black Widow sitting at $183.6 million and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings at $224.5 million domestically. On the good news front, Eternals is creeping upwards with a $384 million worldwide take.

The theaters cleared their way for the next weekend with Steven Spielberg’s music remake of West Side Story. On the limited release front, horror exorcist Agnes and comedy France will be at select theaters.

Source: Box Office Mojo

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