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Box office: Finally, a rush of big (and big-ish) movies gives theatres an end-of-the-year boost
Aquaman, Migration, The Color Purple, and more keep the Christmas season going, but Wonka reigns supreme in its third week.
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Wonka, Poor Things, and Christmas with The Chosen join the top ten
Wonka has one of the biggest openings ever for a non-animated (or non-animated-adjacent) musical, while Christmas with The Chosen has the softest…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Foreign, indie films dominate a top ten list with few, if any, big-studio hits
Among other things, there were two record-breaking Japanese films – The Boy and the Heron, and Godzilla Minus One – in the top three.
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Studio movies sink, niche movies rise in a surprisingly successful post-Thanksgiving weekend
A concert film, a couple of foreign action and disaster films, and a "faith-based" sci-fi film helped make up for some seriously struggling big-studio…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Disney's Wish falls to Napoleon over the Thanksgiving weekend
Both films cost up to $200 million and grossed a little more than $30 million in their first five days, but the discourse around them has been very…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: The Hunger Games prequel leads a weekend of (mostly) underperformers
Meanwhile, the latest Trolls movie gets the jump on Disney, and The Marvels has possibly the worst second-weekend drop in superhero-movie history.
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Peter T Chattaway
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