“Moana” continues to work its charm for Disney during a slow post-Thanksgiving hangover weekend. The film, now in its second frame, earned $6.5 million at 3,875 locations, raising its domestic total to just shy of $100 million.
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” earned an additional $5 million during its third weekend in theaters to fill the number two slot. The film’s domestic total now tops $170 million.
Rounding out the top five this weekend are “Allied,” “Arrival” and “Doctor Strange,” which earned $2.2 million, $2.1 million and $1.8 million respectively. Amy Adams’ sci-fi film is holding especially well as it looks toward a $7.2 million three-day total, only a 37% dip from last weekend.
The weekend’s only new film in wide release is BH Tilt’s “Incarnate.” On Friday the film, made for a budget of about $5 million, earned $915,000 at 1,737 locations. The horror thriller tells the story of a scientist who has unlocked the ability to enter the subconscious mind, and uses his ability to attempt to save a boy possessed by a demon. Brad Peyton directed the movie which stars Aaron Eckhart and Carice van Houten.
Natalie Portman’s awards season contender “Jackie” from Fox Searchlight opened to $91,000 at five locations.
The returning champ “Moana” stars Auli’i Cravalho as the titular animated character and Dwayne Johnson as the demigod Maui. It features musical contributions from “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, and is directed by John Musker and Ron Clements based on a script by Jared Bush. The animated adventure looks to have a strong hold as it heads for a second weekend just shy of $30 million, which means only a 48% dip from its strong opening weekend.
There is no way Moana is doing 30 million this weekend even if it has a giant Saturday. Friday’s drop was simply too large for that type of recovery. A solid weekend of 25 million is still possible, however. Arrival continues to be the stunner of the early BEST PICTURE race. If it continues to play 55-65% stronger on Saturday and as strong on Sunday as it did on Friday, then it gets to 8.5/9 million which would give it another tiny drop. Ditto for Brad Pitt’s WWII spy pic. Speaking of war pics, Hacksaw Ridge could pull in another 4 million, which would be a solid victory as well for this low cost, high quality, Oscar hopeful. On the flip side, Incarnate is the personification of a flop. Oh well, bank on Office Christmas Party to liven up the box office next week as it takes down Moana and everything else with it.
Dude, did you ACTUALLY see Incarnate or are you just judging it because it’s a horror movie? Or maybe the idea SCARES you…..