'Jumanji' And 'Greatest Showman' Continue To Make Box Office Magic
Jumanji
In holdover news that has little to do with the Oscars  the lack of new releases helped the older hits and the Oscar contenders maintain their legs for at least one more weekend. It will be interesting to see how the likes of Jumanji and Greatest Showman play when we start getting more “big” movies over the next two weeks. But even while it came in third on  Friday  Jumanji : Welcome to the Jungle is expected to retake the weekend crown.
The top movie on  Friday  was the lone new release  namely Winchester with $3.6 million. But second place belonged to Maze Runner: The Death Cure. The Fox threequel earned another $3.01m (-64%) on its second Friday. That sets the film up for a $9.6m (-60%) weekend and $39.1m ten-day total.
 Sony’s Jumanji : Welcome to the Jungle earned another $2.875 million (-24%) on its seventh Friday  which sets the mega-smash up for a chart-topping $11m (-32%) weekend and obscene $352.6m domestic total. That means that  sometime early next week   Jumanji  will pass Furious 7 ($353m in 2015) to become Dwayne Johnson’s biggest domestic grosser of all time. No   it  won’t top the last two Fast/Furious movies in terms of global grosses  but  it  has already surpassed everything else on The Rock’s filmography.
By the way  fun fact  now that  Jumanji  has outgrossed Inception ($822 million in 2010)   it  is the biggest-grossing video game-ish movie of all time. It will be interesting to see if Sony’s kid-friendly success offers Peter Rabbit any kind of bump due to trailer placement when it opens next weekend against Fifty Shades Freed. But  yeah  Jumanji is now all-but-guaranteed to pass Spider-Man 2 ($373m in 2004) to become Sony’s second-biggest domestic grosser.
In holdover news that has little to do with the Oscars  the lack of new releases helped the older hits and the Oscar contenders maintain their legs for at least one more weekend. It will be interesting to see how the likes of [TGT] and Greatest Showman play when we start getting more “big” movies over the next two weeks. But even while it came in third on  Friday  [TGT] : Welcome to the Jungle is expected to retake the weekend crown.
The top movie on  Friday  was the lone new release  namely Winchester with $3.6 million. But second place belonged to Maze Runner: The Death Cure. The Fox threequel earned another $3.01m (-64%) on its second Friday. That sets the film up for a $9.6m (-60%) weekend and $39.1m ten-day total.
 [TGT] : Welcome to the Jungle earned another $2.875 million (-24%) on its seventh Friday  which sets the mega-smash up for a chart-topping $11m (-32%) weekend and obscene $352.6m domestic total. That means that  sometime early next week   [TGT]will pass Furious 7 ($353m in 2015) to become Dwayne Johnson’s biggest domestic grosser of all time. No   it  won’t top the last two Fast/Furious movies in terms of global grosses  but  it  has already surpassed everything else on The Rock’s filmography.
By the way  fun fact  now that  [TGT]has outgrossed Inception ($822 million in 2010)   [TGT]  is the biggest-grossing video game-ish movie of all time. It will be interesting to see if Sony’s kid-friendly success offers Peter Rabbit any kind of bump due to trailer placement when it opens next weekend against Fifty Shades Freed. But  yeah  [TGT] is now all-but-guaranteed to pass Spider-Man 2 ($373m in 2004) to become Sony’s second-biggest domestic grosser.