Did you see Frozen II this weekend? Everyone else did. It grossed a whopping $127 million. The big 'Let it Go' successor is "Into the Unknown" but clearly audiences are still very much into the "known" every weekend at the box office -- sequels continue to pack movie houses. Meanwhile Parasite and JoJo Rabbit and Pain and Glory, three success stories of platform releasing, all started to wane this weekend. They're now losing screens and momentum after two months of growth. Precursor awards and top ten lists and year end hoopla basically begins after Thanksgiving so if they're lucky they'll get a strong second wind. We'll see.
Sadly the superb Mr Rogers picture, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, opened somewhat quietly with only $13.5 million in wide release (which seems low for Tom Hanks). GO SEE IT, IT'S AMAZING.
| Weekend Box Office [Estimates] Nov 22nd-24th 🔺 = New or Expanding / ★ = Recommended |
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| 1 🔺 FROZEN II $127 *new* REVIEW |
1 JOJO RABBIT $1.5 on 797 screens (cum. $16) ★ |
| 2 FORD V FERRARI $16 (cum. $57.9) REVIEW, PODCAST ★ |
2 PARASITE $1.2 on 433 screens (cum. $16.4) PODCAST, CLASS, BONG ★ |
| 3 🔺 A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $13.5 *new* ★ |
3 🔺 HONEY BOY $269k on 44 screens (cum. $939K) REVIEW, PODCAST ★ |
| 4 🔺 21 BRIDGES $9.3 *new* |
4 🔺 WAVES $168k on 21 screens (cum. $335k) REVIEW, 2ND OPINION ★ |
| 5 MIDWAY $4.7 (cum. $43.1) |
5 PAIN AND GLORY $135k on 217 screens (cum. $3.3) REVIEW, PODCAST ★ |