

One of the weekend’s big surprises was the family film “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” bouncing back into the top five in its sixth weekend, making $3.2 million (down 5%) for fourth place. This weekend, it took third place with $6.1 million, down just 29% from last weekend and with $56.5 million grossed so far. Julia Roberts and George Clooney ’s reunion in the rom-com “Ticket to Paradise” continues to do decent business in theaters despite already being available on VOD. SEE Best Documentary Feature Oscar predictions: ‘Fire of Love’ and ‘Navalny’ contend with 4 key precursors The other one, of course, is “Wakanda Forever,” which made more than that amount in its very first weekend. It dropped 53% with $8.6 million in its fourth weekend, but it also became one of only two movies that opened since July to cross the $150 million mark. (That would be the 13th highest opening for a movie ever.) Overseas, the “Black Panther” sequel brought in $150 million for a global opening weekend of $330 million.Īfter getting generally positive reviews, “Wakanda Forever” also received an “A” CinemaScore, which is lower than the original movie’s “A+” but better than other superhero movies this year, most of which received a “B+” from audiences.Įxpectedly, Dwayne Johnson’s “ Black Adam” took a plunge to second place after three weeks at #1. Granted, “Wakanda Forever” got some help from the Veteran’s Day holiday, but it held decently on Saturday to bring its weekend estimate to $180 million. That amount was merged into the movie’s Friday box office for an opening day of $84 million, which was lower than the $90.7 million opening day for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” but better than “Thor: Love and Thunder’s” $69.5 million opening day. SEE ‘Meet the Experts’ Film Composers roundtable panel: ‘Living,’ ‘Where the Crawdads Sing,’ ‘White Noise,’ ‘Women Talking’ ĭisney released the movie into 4,396 theaters on Friday, following Thursday previews that took in $28 million, beginning at 4pm.
