Disney-Pixar’s day-of-the-dead delight Coco conquered the Thanksgiving box-office with an estimated $71 million this weekend ($49 million 3-day total), knocking Justice League down a spot with $60 million over the same five-day period, and a running domestic total of $171 million after ten days of release.
Coco‘s numbers gave it the third best Thanksgiving opening ever, behind two other Disney efforts, Frozen ($93 million in 2013) and last year’s Moana ($83 million).
SEE ALSO: Read our review of Coco here
Justice League‘s tally put it amongst the top 15 grossing films of the year, but it remains the worst performing entry in the DCEU to date. After ten days of release, Wonder Woman had grossed $206 million, and Suicide Squad was at $222 million.
In third place was a film nobody saw coming, Lionsgate’s Wonder, which posted $32 million for the frame and a decline of just 19% week-on-week. This kept it ahead of Thor: Ragnarok, at number four with $24 million, edging its way to a global cume of just under $800 million.
In limited release there were plenty of success stories; Call Me By Your Name had a per-screen average of $101,219 from just four venues, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird expanded its theatre count and was rewarded with $4 million in takings, for a domestic total of $10.7 million, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri increased its roll-out, earning $4.4m from 590 screens.
Next week sees the limited release of ballyhooed Oscar contender The Disaster Artist, and Guillermo Del Toro’s fishy romance, The Shape of Water.
