By Leonard Klady Klady@moviecitynews.com
The Weekend Report
Coco led the session with an estimated $26.2 million. The first weekend of December has traditionally been one of the lowest grossing of the calendar, so a lack of new national releases wasn’t unexpected.
Exclusive newcomers were ablaze, with Wonder Wheel, the latest from Woody Allen, circling $142,000 from five locales. The Disaster Artist laughed out a $1.2 million box office from 19 rooms. And Venice best-picture winner The Shape of Water flowed to $163,000 from just two movie palaces. Significant expansions of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird bolstered award campaigns for both.
It was another dull frame for Indian imports with Hindi Firangi grossing $127,000 and Telugu Jawaan right behind with $116,000. The reissue of Titanic in 3-D was afloat with $424,000 at 87 venues and The Swindlers from China had OK response of $76,500 on 27 screens.
Revenues for the frame hovered around $105 million and sank 46% from last weekend. It was still an 8% improvement from 2016 when the second weekend of Moana led the field with $28.3 million. With four weeks left in the year box office is running 5% behind last year’s pace and industry mavens don’t expect the gap to shrink significantly even with The Last Jedi in the mix.
| Weekend (estimates) December 1 – 3, 2017 | |||||
| Title | Distributor | Gross (avg) | % chng | Thtrs | Cume |
| Coco | BV | 26.2 (6,570) | -48% | 3987 | 108.8 |
| Justice League | WB | 16.6 (4,340) | -60% | 3820 | 197.3 |
| Wonder | Lionsgate | 12.3 (3,390) | -46% | 3449 | 87.8 |
| Thor: Ragnarok | BV | 9.5 (3,010) | -44% | 3148 | 291.2 |
| Daddy’s Home 2 | Par | 7.5 (2,210) | -43% | 3403 | 82.8 |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Fox | 6.7 (2,100) | -49% | 3201 | 84.8 |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Fox Searchlight | 4.5 (3,160) | 3% | 1430 | 13.7 |
| Lady Bird | A24/Elevation | 4.4 (3,700) | 9% | 1194 | 17 |
| The Star | Sony | 3.9 (1,390) | -43% | 2822 | 27.2 |
| A Bad Moms Christmas | STX/eOne | 3.4 (1,530) | -48% | 2251 | 64.8 |
| Roman J. Israel, Esq. | Sony | 1.9 (1,150) | -57% | 1669 | 9.5 |
| The Disaster Artist | A24 | 1.2 (62,840) | NEW | 19 | 1.2 |
| The Man Who Invented Christmas | Bleecker Street | .87 (1,290) | -35% | 674 | 3 |
| Titanic (reissue) | Par | .42 (4,870) | NEW | 87 | 0.42 |
| Blade Runner 2046 | WB | .38 (730) | -30% | 515 | 90.8 |
| Junior majeur | Seville | .31 (3,620) | -42% | 85 | 1 |
| Call Me By Your Name | Sony Classics | .28 (69,500) | -33% | 4 | 0.9 |
| Marshall | Open Road | .24 (360) | 292% | 651 | 9.2 |
| Jigsaw | Lionsgate | .22 (720) | -44% | 301 | 37.6 |
| Loving Vincent | Good Deed/Mongrel | .21 (1,280) | -24% | 161 | 5.5 |
| The Shape of Water | Fox Searchlight | .16 (81,600) | NEW | 2 | 0.16 |
| Wonder Wheel | Amazon | .14 (28,460) | NEW | 5 | 0.14 |
| My Friend Dahmer | FilmRise | .14 (1,380) | -2% | 101 | 0.94 |
| Firangi | Grand Showbiz | .13 (1,840) | NEW | 69 | 0.13 |
| Jawaan | Blue Sky | .12 (2,060) | NEW | 57 | 0.16 |
| The Florida Project | A24/Elevation | .12 (1,020) | -59% | 120 | 4.9 |
| Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) | $98.97 | ||||
| % Change (Last Year) | 8% | ||||
| % Change (Last Week) | -46% | ||||
| Also debuting/expanding | |||||
| Darkest Hour | Focus | .11 (26,950) | -38% | 4 | 0.41 |
| Last Flag Flying | Lionsgate | .10 (930) | -35% | 110 | 0.82 |
| The Square | Magnolia | 74,800 (1,410) | -34% | 53 | 0.93 |
| The Swindlers | Well Go | 76,500 (2,830) | 27 | 0.08 | |
| Jane | Abramorama | 72,600 (1,480) | -13% | 49 | 1.3 |
| Novitiate | Sony Classics | 52,300 ((320) | -36% | 163 | 0.47 |
| The House Next Door | CineGalaxy | 37,200 (1,490) | 25 | 0.04 | |
| Oxygen | CineGalaxy | 20,500 (790) | 26 | 0.02 | |
| Daisy Winters | Hannover House | 16,600 (210) | 78 | 0.02 | |
| The Other Side of Hope | Janus | 14,900 (4,970) | 3 | 0.01 | |
| Thiruttu Payale 2 | Magnus | 7,400 (440) | 17 | 0.01 | |
| Radius | Film Movement | 6,700 (960) | 7 | 0.01 | |
| Mathilde | Kinofilm | 6,500 (6,500) | 1 | 0.01 | |
| The Brotherhood of the Blades II | Well Go | 5,300 (2,650) | 2 | 0.01 | |
| 24 Hours to Live | Saban | 5,100 (510) | 10 | 0.01 | |
| Love Beats Rhymes | Film Arcade | 5,100 (510) | 10 | 0.01 | |
| Domestic Market Share (January 2 – November 30, 2017) | |||||
| Distributor (releases) | Box Office (millions) | Market Share | |||
| Warner Bros. (23) | 1971.1 | 20.20% | |||
| Buena Vista (10) | 1746.6 | 17.90% | |||
| Universal (16) | 1451.4 | 14.90% | |||
| 20th Century Fox (23) | 1196.7 | 12.30% | |||
| Sony (22) | 850.9 | 8.70% | |||
| Lionsgate (22) | 754.8 | 7.70% | |||
| Paramount (16) | 486.2 | 5.00% | |||
| STX (8) | 170.3 | 1.80% | |||
| Focus (15) | 139.9 | 1.40% | |||
| Weinstein Co. (7) | 118.9 | 1.20% | |||
| Open Road (9) | 100.5 | 1.00% | |||
| CBS (4) | 69.2 | 0.70% | |||
| Fox Searchlight (11) | 68 | 0.70% | |||
| A24 (12) | 60.6 | 0.60% | |||
| Bleecker Street (7) | 51.2 | 0.50% | |||
| Entertainment (3) | 51.2 | 0.50% | |||
| eOne/Seville (15) | 48.4 | 0.50% | |||
| Other * (342) | 416.6 | 4.30% | |||
| 9752.5 | 100% | ||||
| * none greater than .04% | |||||
| Top Global Grossers (Januray 2 – November 30, 2017) | |||||
| Title | Distributor | Box Office | |||
| Beauty and the Beast | BV | 1,262,158,904 | |||
| The Fate of the Furious | Uni | 1,236,517,749 | |||
| Despicable Me 3 | Uni | 1,031,074,821 | |||
| Spider-Man: Homecoming | Sony | 881,246,309 | |||
| Wolf Warrior II | Bona; Well Go | 867,876,145 | |||
| Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | BV | 862,581,275 | |||
| Wonder Woman | WB | 824,519,701 | |||
| Thor: Ragnarok | BVI | 800,580,860 | |||
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | BV | 769,452,354 | |||
| It | WB | 693,790,529 | |||
| Logan | Fox | 618,191,538 | |||
| Kong: Skull Island | WB | 564,663,975 | |||
| Transformers: The Last Knight | Par | 558,357,889 | |||
| Dunkirk | WB | 520,985,925 | |||
| Justice League | WB | 518,160,993 | |||
| The Boss Baby | Fox; DmWks | 496,799,169 | |||
| War for the Planet of the Apes | Fox | 490,662,665 | |||
| The Mummy | Uni | 409,418,713 | |||
| Kingsman: The Golden Circle | Fox | 394,282,988 | |||
| La La Land * | Lionsgate | 384,729,036 | |||
| Cars 3 | BV | 383,630,743 | |||
| Fifty Shades Darker | Uni | 381,082,129 | |||
| Sing * | Uni | 369,492,462 | |||
| xXx: Return of Xander Cage | Par | 344,515,124 | |||
| The Great Wall | Uni; China Film | 334,476,016 | |||
| * does not include 2016 box office | |||||
