Moviegoing may begin on Christmas, but we can’t ignore that there are 95% K-12 schools off today and colleges too. Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 after coming in lower at a $60.1M opening will continue its rally at the holiday box office with around $9M today at 3,761 locations for a running total of $69.1M. Pic’s 5-day outlook from Christmas Wednesday through Sunday looks to be north of $50M.
The Jeff Fowler directed, Jim Carrey and Ben Schwartz starring threequel will be off today some -41% from its $15.3M Sunday.
Disney’s Mufasa after a very low $35.4M opening will see another $5M today, -51% from Sunday’s $10.2M. The four-day on Mufasa is $40.4M. The Barry Jenkins directed prequel will see around $40M-$45M in the 5-day Christmas run followed by Moana 2‘s $20M-$22M.
Universal’s Wicked is eyeing around $4M today after a $14.1M fifth weekend, -38%, at 3,296 theaters. The Jon M. Chu directed feature take of the Broadway musical –the highest ever for the genre– will have a cume by tomorrow standing at $388.5M. The movie is bound to cross $400M by the end of the holiday weekend.
Lily-Rose Depp stars as Ellen Hutter in director Robert Eggers’ ‘Nosferatu’.
Aidan Monaghan/Focus Features
Competition abounds on Wednesday with four wide adult-leaning, though quite auteurish, theatrical releases; three of ’em R-rated: Focus Features’ Robert Eggers directed horror movie, Nosferatu (2,600 locations, 7PM Christmas Eve previews); Searchlight’s James Mangold Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown starring Timothee Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro (2,500 theaters, previews Christmas Eve at 2PM), A24’s spicy naughty Babygirl from Halina Reijn and starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson (2,000 theaters, no previews) and Amazon MGM Studios Rachel Morrison PG-13 boxing movie The Fire Inside (2000 theaters, 2PM Christmas Eve previews). More on those separately.
