Box Office Weekend: Justice League Conquers

The latest comic-book film, Justice League – this one from Warner Bros. and DC Comics – debuted in the top spot this week earning $96 million, failing to break the $100 million plateau in its opening weekend as did the previous DC Comics entry, Wonder Woman (2016) with $103.2 million its opening weekend. Justice League did much better international, bringing in an additional estimated $185.5 million, making it one of the top twenty-five worldwide openings of all time.

Elsewhere, Wonder, directed by Stephen Chbosky, took in $27.1 in its first week of release to edge out Thor: Ragnarok ($21.8 million), which finished in third place in its third week of release. Daddy’s Home 2 fell precipitously in its second week earning just $14.8 million after hauling in around $36 million during its opening. Murder on the Orient Express brought in another $13.8 million to put its two-week total at $51.7 million (just slightly higher than of Daddy’s Home 2’s $50.6 million).

The animated film The Star brought in $10 million proving that audiences are always hungry for decent family entertainment. The raunchy pre-holiday comedy A Bad Moms Christmas earned $6.9 million in its third week of release, proving that audiences sometimes exhibit taste. In eighth-place was A24’s impressive Lady Bird, which took in $2.5 million in its third week of release. The pre-expansion Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri finished in ninth place with $1.1 million. In the final spot, is the presumably ready to bow out of the top ten horror film Jigsaw, which finished in tenth with $1.1 million and a disappointing four-week tally of $36.5 million.

Next week sees the release of the latest from Disney/Pixar, Coco, which will look to further disrupt the current box office pecking order.

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Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com

An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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