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Get your life! Follow me on Twitter: a.m.: This article was updated with studio comments. Next week, Warner Bros.’ highly anticipated “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” opens, as do Open Road’s “Bleed For This” and STX’s “Edge of Seventeen.” Lastly, Sony Pictures Classic’s French-language drama “Elle,” directed by Paul Verhoeven, opened well with $56,012 in just two theaters. The picture, about an American private who served in the Iraq war, has a solid per-theater average of $60,150 and will expand next weekend to more than 800 theaters nationwide. Sony’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” directed by Ang Lee, opened this week with an impressive $120,300 in just two theaters. Their fight led to the unanimous 1967 Supreme Court ruling that racist anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional. The film tells the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial couple whose 1958 marriage was illegal in their home state of Virginia. This weekend it added $1.4 million (with an impressive per theater average of $7,732) and brought its total to $4.8 million.įocus Features’ “Loving,” starring Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga and Michael Shannon, added $532,000 to its total for a 10-day gross of $740,191. On the limited-release front, A24’s “Moonlight” continues to expand (now at 176 theaters) and garner more attention. It has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes - all 16 of the picture’s reviews are “rotten” - and received a C CinemaScore from audience members. The dark thriller from Luc Besson’s distribution company, EuropaCorp, stars Naomi Watts as a widowed psychologist trying to save a mysterious child (Jacob Tremblay) from a deadly New England snowstorm.Ĭritics and audiences appear unsure about the film. It came in lower than expectations of about $6 million this weekend. “Shut In,” the last of the week’s new releases, nabbed only a seventh place spot, with $3.7 million. That’s only a 29% drop since its debut last week, bringing the film’s gross to $32.3 million. Landing in the fifth spot was Lionsgate’s “Hacksaw Ridge” with $10.8 million. (56% were female and 60% were 25 or older.) Moviegoers gave it an A-minus CinemaScore, but critics didn’t favor the picture it has a 44% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Perhaps the first movie of the Christmas holiday season, the PG-13 picture tracked best with black people, as expected, who were 71% of “Almost Christmas’” audiences. The film also stars budding comedian and Internet personality D.C. Oscar-winner Mo’Nique, in her first comedic role in almost 10 years, plays the sassy, high-spirited Aunt May. Smoove, Romany Malco and Kimberly Elise play his children and their spouses. Usher, Nicole Ari Parker, Omar Epps, J.B.

Danny Glover plays the dad, Walter, and a cast including Gabrielle Union, Jessie T. Talbert, follows a dysfunctional family as they gather for the first Christmas since the matriarch died. “Almost Christmas,” a comedy from writer-director David E. “We have great play ability as we go forward in the holiday season.” “We’re very happy with the start,” said Nick Carpou, Universal’s domestic distribution president.

It came in just above analysts’ $15 million expectations. Universal’s “Almost Christmas” brought early holiday spirit, taking in $15.6 million in its first week, good enough for a fourth-place finish. Though the film has a formidable 93% positive rating on critic site Rotten Tomatoes, moviegoers (52% male 85% over 25) gave “Arrival” a B CinemaScore.ĭavies noted that the over-performance of “Arrival,” as well as the entire box office, is perhaps due to audiences wanting escapes from the “turbulent” week that saw Donald Trump elected as the next president and protests nationwide about the election results.