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‘Avatar 2’ Box Office Still Huge, ‘M3GAN’ Opening Scaryly Great – The Hollywood Reporter

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After a generally unsettling Christmas corridor for movie-going, the first weekend of January is bringing relief to Hollywood and theater owners, thanks Avatar: The Road of Water and new offers M3GANa science fiction themed horror film by Universal and Blumhouse.

water path, was the only film to do big at the year-end box office, earning $45 million in its fourth weekend. Better yet, the faucet of 20th Century and Disney will cross the $500 million mark at the domestic box office, a feat only two other films have achieved since the pandemic began, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Top Gun: Maverick. (Even before the COVID-19 crisis, this milestone was reached by a select few in any given year.)

2nd place is M3GANscares scammers looking at the stellar $29 million to $30 million opening in North America, the highest opening for a PG-13 thriller since A Quiet Place Part II in 2021. And this is the best opening for any movie coming out the first weekend of January since 2018.

Thanks to the two films, box office receipts are up nearly 70% compared to the same weekend in 2022 (historically, the first frame of January has been particularly quiet).

Directed byGerard Johnstone, M3GAN tells the story of a robot doll haunted by a young girl. Critics gave the film high marks, while it received a CinemaScore B from audiences.

Elsewhere, Universal and Illumination The Cat Goes Out: The Last Wish ranked 3rd with an estimated 13.2 million USD.

Tom Hanks-starrer A man named Otto, ranked fourth, is aiming for fourth place after expanding to 637 theaters. The Sony film earned an estimated $4.5 million.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever broke into the top 5 in its ninth weekend with an estimated $3.3 million, followed by TriStar’s Whitney Houston: I want to dance with someone with $2.5 million.

featured movie Whale continues to impress. The A24 release raked in $1.5 million from 714 theaters to place 7th to boast the best performance of any film in the top 10 and ended Sunday with a gross domestic is $8.9 million.

of paramount importance Babylon continued to struggle, earning an estimated $1.4 million out of a domestic total of $13.5 million.

Weekend numbers will be updated on Sunday morning.

This story was originally published on January 7 at 10 a.m




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