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Box Office Weekend: Third Time’s Cool for Coco

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

For the third week in a row, Disney and Pixar’s Coco held onto the top spot at the box office. Earning an estimated $18.3 million, the animated hit finished with almost twice the box office of second-place finisher Justice League, which itself brought in $9.6 million. In just three weeks, Coco has earned $135.5 million domestically. However, it’s run at the top likely comes to an end this week when Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens.

Diminishing box office continues as third-place finisher Wonder, brought in $8.5 million ($4 million less than last week). In only its second week of release, the James Franco-directed indie hit The Disaster Artist made its way into the Top Ten with $6.4 million, which was good enough to best Thor: Ragnarok’s $6.3 million and claim sole possession of fourth place. Though, the God of Thunder probably isn’t too sad as his film has already made $301.2 million during its six-week run.

Daddy’s Home 2 brought in $6 million (which is $1.5 million than last week), which dropped it out of the top five to sixth place. Elsewhere, settling in at the seventh-place station is the mystery Murder on the Orient Express, which brought in $5.1 million to raise its five-week total to $92.7 million. The other animated film on our list, the holiday-themed The Star climbed from the ninth spot to land in eighth place with $3.7 million.

The indie darling, Lady Bird fell a few spots to ninth place with $3.5 million (and an impressive six-week total accumulation of $22.3 million). Despite more optimistic projections, Just Getting Started opened with $3.2 million in its first week, which was good enough to hold onto the tenth spot, though that hold will more than likely prove tenuous open the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi this coming week.

Weekend Box Office (December 8th – December 10th)

  1. Coco…$18.3 Million
  2. Justice League…$9.6 Million
  3. Wonder…$8.5 Million
  4. The Disaster Artist…$6.4 Million
  5. Thor: Ragnarok…$6.3 Million
  6. Daddy’s Home 2…$6.0 Million
  7. Murder on the Orient Express…$5.1 Million
  8. The Star …$3.7 Million
  9. Lady Bird…$3.5 Million
  10. Just Getting Started…$3.2 Million

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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