At the end of a strong year with a five percent uptick in attendance, the post-Christmas box office fell off. With no new “Star Wars” installment, year-end grosses were down around $9 million from $195 million last year.
D.C. Comics’ latest offering “Aquaman” (Warner Bros.) is the easy winner this weekend. Its $51 million is nearly double the second-best “Mary Poppins Returns” (Disney), and its holiday-boosted drop of 23 percent put it in position to be the only December release this year to pass $300 million. Both 2017 movies “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” scored over $400 million.
This comparative weakness to last year means that 2019 will start with a shortfall. M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” (Universal) on January 18 could perform well, but February has to compete with 2018’s massive “Black Panther.”
“Aquaman” on its second weekend grossed slightly less than “Force Awakens” did on its third. And it barely...
D.C. Comics’ latest offering “Aquaman” (Warner Bros.) is the easy winner this weekend. Its $51 million is nearly double the second-best “Mary Poppins Returns” (Disney), and its holiday-boosted drop of 23 percent put it in position to be the only December release this year to pass $300 million. Both 2017 movies “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” scored over $400 million.
This comparative weakness to last year means that 2019 will start with a shortfall. M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” (Universal) on January 18 could perform well, but February has to compete with 2018’s massive “Black Panther.”
“Aquaman” on its second weekend grossed slightly less than “Force Awakens” did on its third. And it barely...
- 12/30/2018
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
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