This weekend Frozen II easily stayed up top and will soon vault over Joker which has been out for a month and a half longer in the box office sweepstakes. We share that only so you can marvel at how quickly the royal family of Arendelle is collecting taxes from their subjects (aka everyone on planet Earth). In other news Dark Waters expanded into wide release. Murtada reviewed it for us and let's just say that I think he was very kind (as several reviews have been). It felt like it twice the length of The Irishman with no shaping, rhythm, visual style, or verve -- completely mystified that it's a Todd Haynes film shot by Ed Lachmann and acted by Ruffalo and Hathaway who are both fairly generic in it. What happened?
| Weekend Box Office [Estimates] Dec 6th-8th 🔺 = New or Expanding / ★ = Recommended | |
| W I D E |
PLATFORM |
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| 1 FROZEN II $34.6 (cum. $337.5) REVIEW |
1 PARASITE $700k on 333 screens (cum. $19.3) PODCAST, CLASS, BONG ★ |
| 2 KNIVES OUT $16 (cum. $57.9) REVIEW, WHODUNNITS?, ANA DE ARMAS ★ |
2 JOJO RABBIT $562k on 579 screens (cum. $19.2) CAPSULE, PODCAST |
| 3 FORD V FERRARI $6.5 (cum. $91.1) REVIEW, PODCAST ★ |
3 🔺 HONEY BOY $452k on 460 screens (cum. $2.1) REVIEW, PODCAST ★ |
| 4 QUEEN & SLIM $6.5 (cum. $26.8) |
4 🔺 WAVES $421k on 570 screens (cum. $1.0) REVIEW, 2ND OPINION ★ |
| 5 A BEAUTIFUL DAY... $5.2 (cum. $43.1) CAPSULE, PODCAST, TOM HANKS ★ |
5 NO SAFE SPACES $292k on 200 screens (cum. $749k) |
| 5 🔺 DARK WATERS $4.1 (cum. $5.2) REVIEW |
6 🔺 PANIPAT $282k on 172 screens *new* |
WHAT DID YOU SEE THIS WEEKEND?