Box-Office Weekend: Zootopia Displaces Wicked

Box Office Weekend

A new film took over the top ten over this box-office weekend, as Zootopia 2 displaced Wicked: For Good by $38.6 million.

“ZOOTOPIA 2” posterIn its first weekend of release, the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures offering of Zootopia 2 took in $100.3 million, easily knocking last weekend’s top film to second place. Wicked: For Good claimed second place with $61.7 million for Universal Pictures, raising the film’s two-week total to $269.2 million. Meanwhile, the Lionsgate release, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t dropped to third place where it added $6.9 million to brings its three-week total to $49.6 million. Similarly, Predator: Badlands lost a spot as it finished in fourth place and earned $4.8 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, bringing the film’s four-week total to $85.1 million. Paramount Pictures International saw The Running Man fall to fifth from fourth, where it made $3.7 million to bring its three-week total to $34.3 million.

Meanwhile, A24 enjoyed a sixth-place debut for its release of Eternity which took in a total of $3.2 million for the studio. Falling two spots, Searchlight Pictures’ Rental Family landed in seventh place where it made $2.2 million for the studio, bringing its two-week total to $7.5 million. Focus Features enjoyed an eighth-place debut for the exquisite Hamnet which brought in $934,278 for the studio during its three-day debut over the weekend. Dropping three spots to claim ninth place was Sony Pictures Releasing’s Sisu: Road to Revenge which made $773,175 over the weekend to lift its two-week total to $4.1 million. Finally, Sony Pictures Classics saw Nuremberg fall to tenth place where it brought in $763,488 to lift its four-week tally to $12.5 million.

Yet again, three films fell from the weekend box-office top ten. After six weeks in release, Regretting You has made $48.5 million for Paramount Pictures International, but the film couldn’t retain its hold on seventh place. With a seven-week total of $77.2 million earned for Universal Pictures, Black Phone 2 drops from the top ten after a ninth-place finish seven days ago. Finally, the Amazon MGM Studios release, Sarah’s Oil managed to bring in $11.2 million for the studio before dropping from the top ten.

Weekend Box Office (November 28th – November 30th)

    1. Zootopia 2…$100.3 Million
    2. Wicked: For Good…$61.7 Million
    3. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t…$6.9 Million
    4. Predator: Badlands…$4.8 Million
    5. The Running Man…$3.7 Million
    6. Eternity…$3.2 Million
    7. Rental Family…$2.2 Million
    8. Hamnet …$932,278
    9. Sisu: Road to Revenge…$773,175
    10. Nuremberg…$763,488
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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