Pretty simple math: When you eat too much on Thanksgiving, you ralph.Ralph Breaks the Internet, that is, which notched another $55.6 million over the weekend, bringing its five-day Thanksgiving total to $84 million. That lands the animated sequel starringJohn C. ReillyandSarah Silvermanin the number two position all time for a Thanksgiving opening, just behind fellow Disney Animation offeringFrozenand its $93.6 million debut.Ralph’s more-than-healthy take contributed to a record-breaking Thanksgiving haul; over the five-day period, ticket sales crossed the $300 million mark, beating out 2013’s $295 million. Cinema is dead, they say.
Adding to this massive haul isCreed 2—the sequel toRyan Coogler’sCreedand eighth film in theRockyfranchise—which knocked out another $35 million over the weekend, bringing its five-day debut up to $55.8 million. That number now marks the highest Thanksgiving opening for a live-action film ever, taking down the record previously held byFour Christmases. Witch all due respect to Vince Vaughn and his wacky holiday hijinx,Creed 2’s victory is a record well-deserved. The film—which saw Steven Caple Jr. take over the director’s chair from Coogler—stars the still-rising starMichael B. Jordanas Adonis Creed, facing off against the son of the man who killed his father, Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu).
Not all of the holiday’s newcomers were winners, though.Robin Hoodand all its fantastic medieval H&M jackets notched just $9 million over the weekend and $14 million total, a devastating miss of the bullseye considering the film’s reported $100 million budget.Taron Egertonstepped into the leather hood of Robin of Locksley this time around for a film thatreally, really wanted a sequel. Elsewhere,Peter Farrelly’sGreen Book—which starred Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen as a jazz musician and his driver navigating the segregated 1960’s deep South—expanded into 1,063 theaters but found only a lackluster $7.8 million.
At the specialty box office,Yorgos Lanthimos’The Favouritewas aptly named. The period film starringOlivia Colman,Rachel Weisz, andEmma Stonenabbed $420,000 on four screens, the best location average sinceLa La Land.
Check out the weekend’s top 10 estimates below, and be back here next week to see if its the end of the world forAnna and the Apocalypse.
Ralph Breaks the Internet
$55,672,000
$84,472,000
$35,293,000
$55,806,000
Dr. Seuss' The Grinch
$30,210,000
$180,442,250
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
$29,650,000
$117,117,238
Bohemian Rhapsody
$13,855,000
$152,014,253
Instant Family
$12,500,000
$35,751,508
Robin Hood
$9,125,000
$14,220,000
$7,955,000
$25,585,819
Green Book
$5,443,000
$7,800,401
A Star Is Born
$3,005,000
$191,005,173
