enjoyed another weekend at the top of the box office. The Sony release starring Tom Hardy added $26.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
It was a relatively quiet weekend for North American movie theaters . Charts were dominated by big studio holdovers, like 鈥淰enom 3,鈥� and 鈥淪mile 2,鈥� while audiences roundly rejected the Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Robert Zemeckis reunion Thirty years after 鈥淔orrest Gump,鈥� 鈥淗ere鈥� opened to only $5 million from 2,647 locations.
鈥淰enom 3鈥� only fell 49% in its second weekend, which is a notably small drop for a superhero film, though . In two weeks, the movie has made over $90 million domestically; The first two opened to over $80 million. Globally, the picture is brighter given that it has already crossed the $300 million threshold.
Meanwhile, Universal and Illumination鈥檚 continues to attract moviegoers even six weeks in (and when it鈥檚 available by video on demand), placing second with $7.6 million. That's up 11% from last weekend. The animated charmer has made over $121 million in North America and $269 million worldwide.
"'The Wild Robot' has quietly been this absolute juggernaut for the fall season," said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. 鈥淔or that film to see an increase after six weeks is astounding.鈥�
鈥淪mile 2鈥� landed in third place with $6.8 million, helping to push its worldwide total to $109.7 million.
The time-hopping 鈥淗ere,鈥� a graphic novel that was adapted by 鈥淔orrest Gump鈥� screenwriter Eric Roth, was financed by Miramax and distributed by Sony鈥檚 TriStar. With a fixed position camera, it takes audiences through the years in one living room. Critics were not on board: In aggregate it has a lousy 36% on Rotten Tomatoes.
鈥淚t was a slow weekend anyway, but it didn鈥檛 resonate in a way that many thought it might," Dergarabedian said. "There are a lot of films out there for the audience that 鈥楬ere鈥� was chasing."
Despite playing in almost 1,000 more locations, 鈥淗ere鈥� came in behind Focus Features' papal thriller which earned $5.3 million. Playing in 1,796 theaters, 鈥淐onclave鈥� dropped only 20% from its debut last weekend and has made $15.2 million so far. Two Indian films also cracked the top 10 in their debuts, 鈥淏hool Bhulaiyaa 3鈥� and 鈥淪ingham Again.鈥�
Overall box office continues to lag behind 2023 by almost 12%. But holiday moviegoing will likely give the industry an end-of-year boost with titles like 鈥淕ladiator II鈥� and 鈥淲icked鈥� on the way.
鈥淚n a couple of weeks, it鈥檒l get a lot more competitive,鈥� Dergarabedian said.
film a comedic drama about cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland, launched in four theaters this weekend in New York and Los Angeles. It made an estimated $240,000, or $60,000 per screen, which is among the top three highest per theater averages of the year. Searchlight Pictures will be expanding the well-reviewed film nationwide in the coming weeks, going wide on Nov. 15 to over 800 theaters.
Box office charts don鈥檛 always paint a full picture of the moviegoing landscape, however. This weekend several relatively high-profile films playing in theaters did not report full grosses for various reasons, including the Clint Eastwood film Steve McQueen鈥檚 WWII film and the Cannes darling Netflix, which is handling 鈥淓milia P茅rez,鈥� never reports box office. Apple Original Films is following suit with 鈥淏litz,鈥� a likely awards contender, which is in theaters before hitting Apple TV+ on Nov. 22.
鈥淛uror No. 2鈥� is a Warner Bros. release, and a well-reviewed one at that. The film directed by Eastwood stars Nicholas Hoult as a juror on a murder case who faces a big moral dilemma. Domestic ticket sales were withheld. The studio did say that it earned $5 million from international showings, where it played on 1,348 screens.
Even major studios withhold box office numbers occasionally. Earlier this year, Disney did not report on the Daisy Ridley movie .鈥� Results were most notably withheld during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"It鈥檚 really up to the distributors," Dergarabedian said. 鈥淥ften times the reason that certain movies may not be reported is that there鈥檚 a chance that the quality of the movie will be conflated with the box office number.鈥�
Final domestic figures will be released Monday. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore, were:
1. 鈥淰enom: The Last Dance,鈥� $26.1 million.
2. 鈥淭he Wild Robot,鈥� $7.6 million.
3. 鈥淪mile 2,鈥� $6.8 million.
4. 鈥淐辞苍肠濒补惫别,鈥� $5.3 million.
5. 鈥淗ere,鈥� $5 million.
6. 鈥淲e Live In Time,鈥� $3.5 million.
7. 鈥淭errifier 3,鈥� $3.4 million.
8. 鈥淪ingham Again,鈥� $2.1 million.
9. 鈥淏eetlejuice Beetlejuice,鈥� $2.1 million.
10. 鈥淏hool Bhulaiyaa 3,鈥� $2.1 million.___This story has been corrected to reflect that the seventh film in the top 10 was 鈥淭errifier 3,鈥� not 鈥淭errifier 2.鈥�
Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press
