Walt Disney Animation’s all-audience tentpole Frozen 2 led the box office with a record-shattering $123.7 million for the Wednesday-Sunday stretch, easily besting the $109.9 million grossed by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire during the same corridor in 2013.
Frozen 2 marks the biggest Thanksgiving showing ever for a Disney animated film after taking the crown from the first Frozen, which earned $93.7 million for the five days in 2013.
The top 12 movies of the weekend, as of Sunday, December 1, are as follows:
# | Title | Distributor Name | Weekend Total | # of Locs | Loc Avg | Cume Total |
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1 | Frozen 2 | Disney | $85,250,000 | 4,440 | $19,200 | $287,573,344 |
2 | Knives Out | Lionsgate | $27,022,000 | 3,461 | $7,808 | $41,700,000 |
3 | Ford v. Ferrari | 20th Century Fox | $13,221,000 | 3,585 | $3,688 | $81,003,779 |
4 | Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, A | Sony | $11,800,000 | 3,235 | $3,648 | $34,313,989 |
5 | Queen & Slim | Universal | $11,700,000 | 1,690 | $6,923 | $15,800,000 |
6 | 21 Bridges | STX Entertainment | $5,820,000 | 2,665 | $2,184 | $20,470,000 |
7 | Playing With Fire | Paramount | $4,200,000 | 2,679 | $1,568 | $39,203,808 |
8 | Midway | Lionsgate | $3,957,000 | 2,377 | $1,665 | $50,279,625 |
9 | Joker | Warner Bros. | $2,030,000 | 1,146 | $1,771 | $330,601,522 |
10 | Last Christmas | Universal | $1,980,000 | 1,852 | $1,069 | $31,658,680 |
11 | Harriet | Focus Features | $1,900,000 | 1,084 | $1,753 | $39,522,000 |
12 | Good Liar, The | Warner Bros. | $1,605,000 | 2,003 | $801 | $14,925,064 |