by Nathaniel R
This long holiday weekend saw the releases of three major Oscar contenders. Call Me By Your Name had a sensational per screen average (101,000 per screen). Darkest Hour also showed its prosthetic Churchill face for a good opening ($44,000 per screen). And then there was Pixar's Coco, which easily trounced Justice League to take the #1 spot. Critics are raving and, more importantly, Latino critics are raving, too, as you can see at Remezcla and here at The Film Experience.
So let's do the box office report differently this weekend and look at this year's Animated Features...
| ANIMATED FEATURES AT THE BOX OFFICE IN 2017 GROSSES AS OF NOV 26th |
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| 1. Despicable Me 3 $264.3 |
6. Captain Underpants $73.9 |
| 2. Lego Batman Movie $175.7 | 7.🔺 Coco $71.1 REVIEW |
| 3. The Boss Baby $175 REVIEW |
8. Lego NinjaGo Movie $59 |
| 4. Cars 3 $152.9 | 9. Smurfs: Lost Village $45 REVIEW |
| 5. The Emoji Movie $86 REVIEW |
10. Nutjob 2 Nutty by Nature $28.3 |
That's the top ten animated films this year at the domestic box office. How high up this chart can Coco climb? It's already at #7 after its first handful of days
The Emoji Movie's high placement is where we see again (sigh) that branding is everything with the public. As long as they're familiar you can sell them just about anything. Same for Cars 3 which you may have forgotten even opened this year it received so little media attention. But parents dutifully took their kids.
It gets quite a lot more obscure after though Loving Vincent has been a steady success at arthouse theaters just pushing over the $5 million line in grosses this weekend!
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| 11. 🔺 The Star $22 | 16. Your Name $5.0 |
| 12. Leap $21.8 | 17. Pokemon the Movie I Choose You $2.4 |
| 13. My Little Pony the Movie $21.8 |
18. Sword Art Online The Movie $1.5 |
| 14. Rock Dog $9.4 | 19. Yu-Gi-Oh the Dark Side of Dimensions $1 |
| 15. 🔺 Loving Vincent $5.1 REVIEW | 20. The Red Turtle $921k REVIEW |
🔺 = still playing in theaters numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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Not all of these titles are eligible for the animated feature Oscar this year, most notably Your Name and The Red Turtle which were both eligible last year (with the latter being nominated). Here's the updated Best Animated Feature Chart with all the eligible titles.