“Box Office Battle” is The Fly’s weekly roundup of what movies topped the weekend’s box office.
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Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans’ Christmas movie “Red One” won this weekend at the North American box office with $34.1M. Overseas, the film grossed an estimated $14.7M from 75 markets in its second outing for a global cume of $84.1M. Of note, Amazon (AMZN) MGM Studios elected to open the movie early overseas to avoid Paramount’s (PARA) “Gladiator II” debut, which debuted international this weekend.
BOX OFFICE RUNNER-UPS: Sony’s (SONY) “Venom: The Last Dance” placed number 2 with another $7.4M. Behind it was Lionsgate’s (LGF.B) “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” with $5.4M in its second outing. A24’s psychological horror pic “Heretic” placed number 4, grossing an estimated $5.2 in its sophomore weekend. Rounding out the top five, DreamWorks Animation and Comcast (CMCSA) subsidiary Universal’s “The Wild Robot” earned $4.3M from 2,894 theaters.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:
- “Red One” – $34.1M
- “Venom: The Last Dance” – $7.4M
- “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” – $5.4M
- “Heretic” – 5.2M
- “The Wild Robot” – $4.3M
Other publicly traded companies in filmmaking include Disney (DIS), Warner Bros. (WBD), and Apple (AAPL).
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