Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Box: Well, crossing The Exorcist with Inception sounded like a good idea...

1. Moana - $26m / $118.5m / $225m
2. Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them - $20m / $185.5m / $240m
3. Doctor Strange - $6.5m / $215.5m / $232m
4. Allied - $6m / $28m / $42m
**Arrival - $6m / $71.5m / $90m
6. Trolls - $5m / $142m / $160m
**Incarnate - $5m / $5m / $12m
8. Bad Santa 2 - $3m / $14m / $20m
**Almost Christmas - $3m / $38.5m / $45m
**Hacksaw Ridge - $3m / $57m / $65m
11. Manchester by the Sea - $1.5m / $3.5m / $30m

It's a little hard to gage right now where Moana will end up. Legs will probably be closer to Tangled than Frozen, but it's only competition for the rest of the year is Sing. Fantastic Beasts continues to do exactly as expected, while Allied bombed last weekend. Paramount just didn't give it the push it needed and probably should have saved it for February or March. Arrival, meanwhile, continues to be a very solid performer. Incarnate is the only opener. There's also a religious pic called Believe, but it probably won't make the top 10. It'll do almost exactly what The Darkness and The Green Inferno did. Manchester by the Sea will be just outside the top 10. It has been doing very well in limited. A wide expansion is planned for Dec. 16. Jackie debuts this weekend in 5 theaters. Should be fun to watch that expand. I'm curious as to whether it or La La Land opening next weekend will have the highest PTA of the year. Outside the top 10, Rules Don't Apply bombed last weekend. Billy Lynn won't even make $2m at this rate. Man, the awards rejects were really rejected.

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