Tuesday 26 December 2017

Box Office: 'Last Jedi,' 'Jumanji' Rule Christmas; 'Downsizing' Bombs

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'Downsizing'


'The Post' prospers, while the verdict is out on 'Pitch Perfect 3' and 'The Greatest Showman.' A holiday loser is 'Father Figures.'

Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle are the biggest winners of the holiday box-office feast, while at the other end of the Christmas table Alexander Payne's Downsizing and the R-rated Father Figures are fighting for scraps.
Moviegoing always dips on Christmas Eve, but traffic will pick up in earnest later on Monday once presents are unwrapped. The corridor between Christmas Day and New Year's Day is the most lucrative stretch of the year. This year is especially important if the revenue gap at the domestic box office is to come in only 1 or 2 percent behind 2016's record $11.4 billion.
Disney and Lucasfilm's The Last Jedi grossed $100.7 million from 4,232 theaters for the long holiday weekend (Friday to Monday), pushing its domestic total to $397.3 million. Through Sunday, the film's global haul is a mighty $745.5 million after earning another $75.1 million this weekend from 54 foreign markets, helping Disney jump the $6 billion mark at the global box office for the second time — a feat no other studio has accomplished.........

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