Christmas Box Office: ‘Avatar: The Waterway’ Easily Wins Second Weekend, Surpassing $880M Worldwide – Gold Derby

The Christmas weekend didn’t bring many gifts to movie studios or movie chains, as three new large-scale releases didn’t find much of an audience, while james cameron“Avatar: The Way of Water” topped with $64 million over the three-day weekend to take the top spot. That’s down 53% from its opening weekend, but it’s estimated to gross another $26 million on Monday, bringing its domestic total to $287.7 million. On top of that, Cameron’s sequel has grossed over $880 million worldwide, making it the fifth highest-grossing film of 2022 after just ten days of release, with $601.7 million of that amount. made abroad until Sunday. $97.2 million of that worldwide total came from the IMAX theaters in which the film played.

Offered as counter-programming was DreamWorks Animation’s sequel, “Puss in Boots: The Big Wish,” featuring the voices of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, John Mulaney, Florence Poug, and much more. The film was released in 4,099 theaters on Wednesday, and after grossing $6.1 million on Wednesday and Thursday, it added $3.8 million on Friday, leading to a first weekend of $12.4 million. It’s predicted to earn $20 million for the four days including Monday, which would be $26.1 million in the first six days. It really isn’t great when you compare it to last year’s animated sequel “Sing 2,” which grossed $37.9 million in its first five days after opening the Wednesday before Christmas. last year. Oddly enough, “Puss in Boots” got much better reviews than most other theatrical releases, racking up a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes with a respectable “A” CinemaScore.

Sony has opened the biopic “I want to dance with someone”, starring Naomi Akkie, in 3,625 theaters on Friday with previews Thursdays starting at 2 p.m., that equated to a paltry $730,000. With $2 million reported on Friday, it ended up with just $4.8 million in its first three days. It was expected to gross $6.8 million including Monday, well below most conservative projections, though it also received an “A” CinemaScore, so fans who went to see the film must have seen it. ‘enjoy.

Damien ChazelleThe fifth feature film of “Babylon”, with Diego Calva (“Narcos: Mexico”), Margot Robbieand brad pitt, opened with $3.6 million in its three-day opening weekend after earning $1.5 million on Friday. With Monday, Paramount’s release only made $5.3 million, which equates to a paltry $1,585 per theater. It also received an awful “C+” CinemaScore, which basically says moviegoers weren’t particularly enamored with the film which also received mixed to negative reviews.

Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and Universal’s “Violent Night” were neck and neck for fifth place, with the former earning $3.5 million over the three-day weekend (down 35 % from last weekend) and “Violent Night” $3.53 million over the three-day weekend (down 30%) with an additional $1.4 million on Monday. “Wakanda Forever” is currently at $427.9 million, while the David Harbor the action comedy grossed $43.3 million. “Wakanda Forever” is just under $800 million worldwide, so it’s already behind “Avatar,” despite the latter having been in theaters for less than two weeks.

Darren Aronofsky“The Whale” by expanded to 603 theaters on Wednesday where it ended up with a measly $1 million for the three-day weekend, enough for seventh place, and a projection of 2.6 million. dollars in revenue through Sunday.

Universal keeps trying to make Steven Spielberg“The Fabelmans” is performing, expanding it to 1,122 theaters on Wednesday. He ended up with $750,000 over the three-day weekend and $1.1 million including Monday. It has grossed $10.3 million domestically through Monday.

“The Menu” took ninth place with $680,000 for the three-day weekend, down 58% from last weekend with an estimated $34.2 million in revenue so far. see you Monday.

UA Release finally available Sarah PollyThe drama of “Women Talking” in 8 theaters in major cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto and Austin) where it earned only $41,000 or about $8,000 on average per theater. It’s not a great start, even though the Oscar nominee will go nationwide on January 6.

“Corsage” by IFC Films, the Austrian selection for the Oscars with Vicky Krieps, which grossed around $36,000 over the four-day weekend. It expands to LA on December 30 and other cities on January 6.

Although this week box office prediction game was only for the three-day portion of the weekend, most players realized that “Avatar” would once again be the number one movie, although nearly four times as many players had it earning 75 to $100 million against the 39 players who correctly picked $50 to $75 million. Most players had the next four spots, although fifth place could still be a photo-finish between “Wakanda Forever” and “Violent Night.” (“Violent Night” is ahead for all three days based on guesswork, which would have allowed 55 players to predict it correctly.)

Only 10 players went 6 for 6 in last week’s game, but the biggest point-maker was…well, actually, it was me with 60,550 points. I did this by predicting that “Avatar” would fetch $125-150 million, and making my big bet when it listed at odds of 100 to 1. Like I’ve said a few times now, if you place your Super Bet on a prediction with the highest odds that comes true, it will help increase your point value.

There are no new wide releases next weekend – just a few limited releases, including tom hank“A Man Called Otto” and the Japanese filmmaker’s new film “Broker” Hirokazu Kore-eda – so we’re skipping this week’s preview, although we’ll get a preview of the movies coming out in January later this week.

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