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Weekend Box Office Report
November 24 - November 26, 2017




By Daniel Garris

Weekend Actuals Update:

With actuals now in, Disney’s Coco exceeded Sunday’s studio estimate by nearly $2 M with a weekend debut of $50.803 M. Coco took in an excellent $72.909 M over the five-day holiday frame.

Warner’s Justice League came in slightly higher than its studio estimate with $41.090 M. Justice League grossed $60.002 M over the five-day holiday frame and has grossed $171.904 M in ten days.

Other actuals for the three-day frame include: Wonder ($22.674 M), Thor: Ragnarok ($16.863 M), Daddy’s Home 2 ($13.217 M), Murder on the Orient Express ($13.171 M), The Star ($6.931 M), A Bad Moms Christmas ($4.896 M), Roman J. Israel, Esq. ($4.447 M), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ($4.403 M), Lady Bird ($4.058 M) and The Man Who Invented Christmas ($1.353 M).

On the platform front, Call Me By Your Name grossed $413 K from 4 locations for a massive per-location average of $103,233. Darkest Hour took in $175 K from 4 locations for a per-location average of $43,752 and has grossed $247 K in five days.

Weekend Estimates Update:

Disney’s Coco was off to a successful first place start this weekend with an estimated $49.02 M. The critically acclaimed Lee Unkrich directed computer animated film from Pixar took in an estimated $71.20 M over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday frame. Coco debuted towards the higher end of expectations and was off to an especially encouraging start with the film’s excellent critical reviews and strong early word of mouth in mind. Coco delivered the fourth largest three-day Thanksgiving weekend debut ever (behind only 2013’s Frozen, 1999’s Toy Story 2 and last year’s Moana). Disney has an especially strong track record with Thanksgiving weekend releases, as the top nine three-day Thanksgiving weekend debuts are all currently Disney releases. In comparison to the most recent Thanksgiving weekend Disney releases, Coco is running a healthy 28.4 percent ahead of the $55.46 M five-day haul of 2015’s The Good Dinosaur and just 13.3 percent behind the $82.080 M five-day launch of Moana. Coco also received a bit of extra help this weekend from the animated short Olaf’s Frozen Adventure playing before the film.

Coco grossed $18.94 M on Black Friday, was down a slim 2.8 percent on Saturday to take in $18.41 M and is estimated to decline 36.6 percent on Sunday to gross $11.67 M. As mentioned, critical reviews for Moana have been terrific. The film has a current rating of 9.294 on our LoveHate Rate aggregate measurement of critical and online user ratings (which is currently the second highest rating of 2017 to date, behind only Lady Bird). Coco is also going over very well with audiences, as the film received an exceptional A+ rating on CinemaScore. Expect Coco to hold up very nicely throughout the holiday season.

Internationally, Coco grossed an estimated $30.7 M this weekend from 22 international markets. That brings the film’s international total to $82.2 M and global haul to $153.4 M. Coco has been playing in Mexico for five weeks, where the film’s total gross stands at a record-breaking $53.4 M after taking in an additional $2.2 M this weekend. International debuts for Coco this weekend included $18.2 M in China and $3.1 M in Russia. Coco will debut in additional international markets next weekend, including France, Germany and Spain.

Warner’s Justice League placed in second this weekend with an estimated $40.73 M. That represented a sharp, but understandable 56.6 percent decline from the film’s opening weekend performance. Over the five-day holiday frame, Justice League took in an estimated $59.65 M. The ten-day start for Justice League stands at a softer than expected $171.55 M, which represents an underwhelming performance with the film’s expensive price tag and event film status in mind. While Justice League had a significantly better second weekend percentage hold than last year’s Suicide Squad (which fell 67.4 percent in its second weekend to take in $43.54 M), Justice League is still running 22.9 percent behind the $222.64 M ten-day gross of Suicide Squad.

Internationally, Justice League took in an estimated $72.2 M from 66 international markets. Justice League has now grossed $309.8 M internationally and $481.3 M globally. International totals to date for key markets include $83.1 M in China, $24.9 M in Brazil, $18.2 M in Mexico, $16.6 M in the U.K., $12.0 M in Korea, $10.1 M in Australia and $10.0 M in France.

Lionsgate’s Wonder continued to impress this weekend with an estimated third place take of $22.30 M. The well-received Stephen Chbosky directed film starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay was down just 19.0 percent from last weekend’s break-out debut. For the five-day frame, Wonder grossed an estimated $32.25 M. Wonder is quickly becoming one of the biggest surprise hits of 2017 with a ten-day gross of $69.44 M. At this rate, it won’t be long before Wonder zooms past the $100 M domestic mark, especially with the remainder of the holiday season still ahead of it. Wonder is running 3.9 percent ahead of the $66.85 M ten-day launch of 2008’s Bolt and 30.7 percent behind the $100.24 M ten-day take of 2009’s The Blind Side. The current total gross to opening weekend ratio for Wonder already stands at 2.52 to 1.

Disney’s Thor: Ragnarok took fourth place with an estimated $16.79 M. Thor: Ragnarok was down 22.5 percent from last weekend. That represented a very solid hold, especially given that Thor: Ragnarok was playing in 779 fewer locations this weekend than last weekend. Thor: Ragnarok has grossed a mighty $277.47 M in 24 days, which leaves the film just $22.53 M away from reaching the $300 M domestic milestone. Internationally, Thor: Ragnarok took in an estimated $11.0 M this weekend from 56 markets. That brings the film’s international total to $512.6 M and global haul to $790.1 M.

Meanwhile, Paramount’s Daddy’s Home 2 and Fox’s Murder on the Orient Express remained close to one another at the box office with respective estimated fifth and sixth place takes of $13.25 M and $13.00 M. Daddy’s Home 2 was down only 8.2 percent from last weekend, while Murder on the Orient Express declined an even slimmer 5.8 percent. The race was even closer between the two over the five-day holiday frame, as Daddy’s Home 2 took in an estimated $18.64 M and Murder on the Orient Express grossed an estimated $18.62 M. Respective 17-day totals stand at $74.25 M for Murder on the Orient Express and at $72.66 M for Daddy’s Home 2, as both films continue to exceed expectations.

In other box office news, Sony’s Roman J. Israel, Esq., Fox Searchlight’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and A24’s Lady Bird were all close to one another as all three films received major expansions over the holiday frame. Roman J. Israel led the pack with an estimated $4.52 M take over the weekend from 1,669 locations and $6.20 M over the five-day frame. Three Billboards took in an estimated $4.40 M from just 614 locations for the weekend (giving it a strong per-location average of $7,166) and $5.86 M over the five-day frame. Lady Bird did experience a bit of relative slowing this weekend, with a still healthy estimated $4.04 M over the weekend from 791 locations and $5.37 M over five days. Total grosses to date stand at $10.70 M for Lady Bird, at $7.62 M for Three Billboards and at a modest $6.27 M for Roman J. Israel.

While that trio of films expanded this weekend, Sony Pictures Classics’ Call Me By Your Name and Focus’ Darkest Hour began their respective platform runs this weekend in New York and Los Angeles. Call Me By Your Name was off to a terrific start with an estimated $405 K over the three-day frame, for a massive per-location average of $101,219. Darkest Hour wasn’t as strong, with a still promising estimated $176 K over the weekend (for a per-location average of $44,000) and $248 K in its first five days. Both Call Me By Your Name and Darkest Hour will hope to be major players throughout this year’s awards season.





Weekend Studio Estimates for November 24 - November 26, 2017.

Film (Distributor) Weekend
Gross
Theatre
Count
Per-Thea.
Average
%Change
Total
Gross
TG to OW
Ratio
Week
1 Coco
(Disney)
$49,022,000 3,987 $12,295 NEW $71,195,000 1.452 1
2 Justice League
(Warner Bros.)
$40,730,000 4,051 $10,054 -56.6% $171,547,000 1.828 2
3 Wonder
(Lionsgate)
$22,300,000 3,172 $7,030 -19.0% $69,440,000 2.521 2
4 Thor: Ragnarok
(Disney)
$16,791,000 3,281 $5,118 -22.5% $277,468,000 2.261 4
5 Daddy's Home 2
(Paramount)
$13,250,000 3,518 $3,766 -8.2% $72,663,000 2.451 3
6 Murder on the Orient Express
(Fox)
$13,000,000 3,152 $4,124 -5.8% $74,247,000 2.589 3
7 The Star
(Sony / AFFIRM)
$6,875,000 2,837 $2,423 -29.9% $22,031,000 2.245 2
8 A Bad Moms Christmas
(STXfilms)
$5,010,000 2,306 $2,173 -28.4% $59,757,000 3.566 4
9 Roman J. Israel, Esq.
(Sony / Columbia)
$4,515,000 1,669 $2,705 +7,182.4% $6,274,000 1.390 2
10 Three Billboards Outside
Ebbing, Missouri
(Fox Searchlight)
$4,400,000 614 $7,166 +299.2% $7,624,000 1.733 3
11 Lady Bird
(A24)
$4,042,000 791 $5,110 +60.6% $10,703,000 2.648 4
12 The Man Who Invented Christmas
(Bleecker Street)
$1,343,000 626 $2,146 NEW $1,797,000 1.338 1

Call Me By Your Name
(Sony Pictures Classics)
$405,000 4 $101,219 NEW $405,000 1.000 1
Jigsaw
(Lionsgate)
$380,000 383 $992 -64.9% $37,292,000 2.241 5
The Florida Project
(A24)
$299,000 164 $1,822 -0.3% $4,744,000 7.485 8
Loving Vincent
(Good Deed)
$263,000 147 $1,790 -34.8% $5,148,000 8.561 10
Tyler Perry's Boo 2!
A Madea Halloween
(Lionsgate)
$195,000 248 $786 -58.6% $47,040,000 2.216 6
Last Flag Flying
(Roadside / Amazon)
$185,000 98 $1,888 +51.4% $680,000 3.675 4
Darkest Hour
(Focus)
$176,000 4 $44,000 NEW $248,000 1.409 1
My Friend Dahmer
(FilmRise)
$155,000 75 $2,067 -4.8% $742,000 3.947 4
Victoria & Abdul
(Focus)
$118,000 144 $819 -45.6% $21,907,000 5.251 10
Despicable Me 3
(Universal)
$111,000 161 $689 -11.2% $264,386,000 3.650 22
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
(Fox)
$108,000 173 $624 -39.4% $99,942,000 2.561 10
The Mountain Between Us
(Fox)
$94,000 167 $563 -17.2% $29,830,000 2.827 8
Jane
(National Geographic / Abramorama)
$83,337 51 $1,634 -30.3% $1,168,000 5.104 6
Novitiate
(Sony Pictures Classics)
$76,526 120 $638 +20.7% $368,000 4.805 5
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
(A24)
$65,278 59 $1,106 -65.3% $2,111,000 4.581 6
American Made
(Universal)
$65,000 108 $602 -57.9% $51,203,000 3.052 9
Happy Death Day
(Universal)
$65,000 131 $496 -71.1% $55,564,000 2.134 7
Explosion (Yub Bao Zhe)
(China Lion Film)
$63,000 33 $1,909 NEW $63,000 1.000 1
The Foreigner
(STXfilms)
$62,000 104 $596 -68.2% $34,118,000 2.602 7
Marshall
(Open Road)
$61,569 111 $555 -55.3% $8,882,000 2.960 7
My Little Pony: The Movie
(Lionsgate)
$36,000 119 $303 -72.0% $21,818,000 2.455 8
Leap!
(Weinstein Company)
$20,975 68 $308 -54.4% $21,848,000 4.619 14
The Breadwinner
(GKIDS)
$18,064 8 $2,258 +3.8% $44,612 2.470 2
Wonderstruck
(Roadside / Amazon)
$14,495 32 $453 -74.5% $1,016,000 4.114 6
Wind River
(Weinstein Company)
$6,468 15 $431 -51.6% $33,795,000 7.345 17
Friend Request
(Entertainment Studios
Motion Pictures)
$162 1 $162 -54.6% $3,759,000 1.877 9

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