Well, that’s three weeks in a row atop the box-office weekend top ten for Avatar: Fire and Ash as the film retained first place by a margin of $21 million.
In its third weekend of release, Avatar: Fire and Ash pulled in $40 million for 20th Century Studios, bringing the film’s overall total to $306 million. This proved more than enough to keep Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’ Zootopia 2 in second place where it added $19 million over the weekend, raising its six-week total to $363.6 million. Meanwhile, the first of two flips on this weekend’s top ten resulted in last week’s fourth-place film, The Housemaid, swapping with last weekend’s third-place film, Marty Supreme. Claiming third place with $14.9 million, Lionsgate’s The Housemaid brought its three-week total to $75.7 million. Despite losing third place to The Housemaid, A24’s Marty Supreme still finished in fourth place with $12.6 million to bring its three-week total to $56 million. Sony Pictures Releasing enjoyed a $10 million weekend from Anaconda as the film held its ground in fifth place while lifting its two-week total of $45.9 million.
The second leapfrog of this weekend’s top ten involved The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants climbing over the Angel release of David to land in sixth place where the film took in $8.2 million, bringing its three-week total to $57.6 million for Paramount Pictures International. Of course, this pushed David to seventh place where it took in $8 million to give it a three-week total of $70.1 million. Holding steady in eighth place was Song Sung Blue which made $5.8 million for Focus Features in its second weekend of release, giving the film an overall total of $24.9 million. Also staying put in its position from last weekend was Wicked: For Good which claimed ninth place with $3.3 million in its seventh week of release, to bring its overall total to $339.9 million for Universal Pictures. Finally, after five weeks in release and amassing a total of $125.2 million for Universal Pictures International, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 remained in tenth place with $2.7 million taken in over the weekend, leaving no room for newcomers in this weekend’s top ten.
Weekend Box Office (January 2nd – January 4th)
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- Avatar: Fire and Ash…$40.0 Million
- Zootopia 2…$19.0 Million
- The Housemaid…$14.9 Million
- Marty Supreme…$12.6 Million
- Anaconda…$10.0 Million
- The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants…$8.2 Million
- David…$8.0 Million
- Song Sung Blue…$5.8 Million
- Wicked: For Good…$3.3 Million
- Five Nights at Freddy’s 2…$2.7 Million
