Box: More like Subpar Beasts, am I right?

1. Fantastic Beasts 2 - $64m / $64m / $185m
2. The Grinch - $38m / $127m / $250m
3. Instant Family - $16m / $16m / $65m
4. Widows - $15m / $15m / $70m
5. Bohemian Rhapsody - $14.5m / $126.5m / $175m
6. The Nutcracker and Four Realms - $5m / $44.5m / $62m
7. A Star Is Born - $4.5m / $186m / $210m
**Overlord - $4.5m / $18.5m / $30m
9. The Girl In the Spider's Web - $3m / $14m / $22m
**Nobody's Fool - $3m / $30m / $36m

I'm sure there's a floor for the Fantastic Beasts franchise, but this new installment might dip just below that. I don't feel any excitement for it, but it's still part of a big franchise universe. Instant Family will have the benefit of being one of the only PG-13 comedies in the marketplace, seemingly the first in a good while. Widows is hoping to turn box-office gold into award season gold. It'll be a good test to see if audiences are still in the mode for a well-reviewed, modestly budgeted, R-rated adult-aimed drama after the success of A Star Is Born. A Private War and Can You Ever Forgive Me? both appear to be getting a wide push. The former will probably only do about a million, while the latter could do $1.5-2m. The Melissa McCarthy dramedy should hold well over the next month, enough to hopefully do about $15m total.