Sunday, January 5, 2020

Rise of Skywalker still #1 at box office



For the weekend of January 3-5, 2020, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker continues to rule. It’s now made over $915 million worldwide and should cross the $1 billion mark sometime next week. It’s not the force that Force Awakens was, but it should wind up grossing about as much as The Last Jedi. I also think the decision to not have another Star Wars movie for a good three years is a smart one. People can get their fix from DisneyPlus.

The only new wide release was The Grudge, a reboot that critics hated it, and so the quick $11 million opening it got means it should sink quickly, and so studios have tried and failed again to revive a horror franchise. Meanwhile we have reboots of Saw and Candyman coming this summer.

Of the holdovers, Jumanji: Next Level is doing quite well, thank you, at over $600 million worldwide, and if they want to make another one, the box office receipts are there to justify it.

Frozen II has passed $1.3 billion worldwide.

1917 is doing great in limited release. Just Mercy is doing decently, but it could use more award buzz around Jamie Foxx to bolster its box office potential.

Golden Globes are tonight!


Opens January 10
LIKE A BOSS with Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne and Salma Hayek.
UNDERWATER with Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Jessica Henwick and TJ Miller.
(wide) 1917 with George Mackey, Dean-Charles Chapman and Colin Firth.
(wide) JUST MERCY with Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larsen.

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