The Disney/Marvel sequel had grossed nearly $46 million during the prior Friday-Sunday period. Still, its domestic total has reached an impressive $393.7 million, on top of $339 million in international ticket sales.
Universal’s “Silent Night” took second place over the weekend with $13.3 million, “a solid opening for an action comedy,” said David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.
David Harbour, Jim Hopper in stranger thingsplays a cranky Santa who comes to the rescue when bad guys invade a wealthy family’s home on Christmas Eve.
Gross said the film should do well until the December 16 release of the highly anticipated “Avatar: Road to Water.”
Disney’s computer-animated sci-fi film “A Strange World” came in third, grossing just $4.9 million. Given its production budget of $180 million, “the film could lose more than $100 million,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
In fourth place was Searchlight’s horror-comedy “The Menu,” with $3.6 million. Ralph Fiennes plays a celebrity chef who serves up some dark surprises for a group of upper-class people.
And fifth place went to Sony’s “Honour Story,” an action movie about two American fighter pilots during the Korean War, with $2.8 million.
The other five on the top 10 list were:
-“I Heard the Bells” (1.8 million dollars)
-“Black Adam” (1.7 million dollars)
-“The Fabelmans” (1.3 million dollars)
-“To the bone” (1.2 million dollars)
-“Passage to paradise” (850 thousand dollars)