A new film took control of the box-office weekend as Avatar: Fire and Ash debuted in the top spot by a margin of $67.2 million.
The eagerly anticipated Avatar: Fire and Ash debuted in first place over the weekend as it brought in $89.2 million for 20th Century Studios. Second place was claimed by the Angel release David with $22.0 million. Meanwhile, The Housemaid enjoyed an $19.0 million debut for Lionsgate in third place. Just behind that, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants took fourth place with $16.0 million in its first weekend of release. These four films pushed last week’s top film, Zootopia 2 down to fifth place this weekend where it added $15.0 million, to bring the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product’s four-week total to $282.8 million.
Universal Pictures International saw Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 also drop four spots to land in sixth place this weekend, where it added $7.7 million, to brings the film’s three-week total to $108.9 million. Meanwhile, Universal Pictures’ Wicked: For Good fell four spots to seventh place where it added $4.9 million, bringing the film’s five-week total to $320.5 million. Focus Features saw its Hamnet creep back into the top ten this weekend with $918,520, which proved just enough to land in the film in eighth place in its fourth weekend of release, bringing its overall total to $8.8 million. Meanwhile, Marty Supreme enjoyed a ninth-place finish wherein the A24 product brought in $875,000. Finally, after a fourth-place finish last weekend, Dhurandhar fell six spots to land in tenth place where it took in $670,000, bringing the film’s three-week total to $8.6 million.
Six films found themselves knocked out of the weekend box-office top ten this weekend. After a fifth-place finish last weekend, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t drops from the top ten after bringing in a total of $61.1 million for Lionsgate. The other five films comprise last weekend’s sixth- through tenth-place films. The GKIDS release Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution managed to amass a total of $15.9 million before dropping from the top ten. Meanwhile, with $3.6 million brought in for 20th Century Studios, Ella McCay also dropped from the top ten. Universal Pictures enjoyed a $2.9 million take for the re-release of How the Grinch Stole Christmas before it dropped from the top ten. With a total of $14.8 million taken in for A24, Eternity also fell from this weekend’s top ten. Finally, the re-release of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining managed to bring in a total of $1.6 million.
Weekend Box Office (December 19th – December 21st)
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- Avatar: Fire and Ash…$89.2 Million
- David…$22.0 Million
- The Housemaid…$19.0 Million
- The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants…$16.0 Million
- Zootopia 2…$15.0 Million
- Five Nights at Freddy’s 2…$7.7 Million
- Wicked: For Good...$4.9 Million
- Hamnet…$918,520
- Marty Supreme…$875,000
- Dhurandhar…$670,000
