‘Hunger Games’ on top for the third straight week
It was reportedly the first Pixar movie to not top the box office weekend, with only $15.51 million earnings.
The anti-Santa Claus thriller from Universal brought in $16 million. The Good Dinosaur, $19.4 million.4. Adjusted for inflation, Good Dinosaur is all but guaranteed to be the lowest-grossing Pixar film ever released. It was a dozen years ago in 2003, when Tom Cruise’s The Last Samurai earned only $24.3 million over its opening weekend, against a $140 million budget (it went on to find a profit theatrically thanks to a $480 million worldwide gross). Krampus’ approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes stands at 63%, which is quite good for the horror genre.
“Mockingjay-Part 2” has earned $227.1 in the USA, according to Variety, and $524 globally, according to theWrap, who also note that it is the first sweep of three straight weekends for a film since August’s “Straight Outta Compton”. Screen Crush adds that while the movie is still a hit, and has out-performed many other franchise films, it will be lucky to hit $300 million.
Rounding out the top five was Spectre, bringing in an additional $5.4 million.
From director Ryan Coogler, Creed continued to deliver a strong punch in its second weekend, falling just 48 percent for a domestic total of $65 million through Sunday.
The Peanuts Movie slipped two to #7 in its fourth week with $3.5 million. The $5.4 million weekend isn’t too bad – that is, if you don’t look at the per-screen average. But with a bunch of box office holdovers and no other major wide debuts, the tale that inspired Herman Mellville’s Moby-Dick should be the film that finally supplants The Hunger Games.
Spotlight geld on nicely in its fifth week, steady at #8 with $2.9 million.
Warner Bros.’ a unit of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) Rocky reboot Creed for the #3 spot with $15.5-M. Fox Searchlight debuted Youth at four locations to $80k, and the Weinstein Company dropped the latest adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard) at five locations where it made $67,868.
Again, Krampus cost just $15 million to make which is a far cry from the $190 million that Universal spent on Furious 7.