Come with me, and we’ll be, in a world of seasonal staying power. Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, does it? It does however sum up the performance of box-office champ Wonka, which has remained atop the U.S. box-office with $14.4 million in its fourth weekend of release.
The Warner Bros. musical prequel has managed to show some legs beyond the holiday season, taking its domestic total to $164.6 million, and it’s global tally to a sweet $465 million.
Traditionally one the slowest months of the year at the box-office, Blumhouse decided to dip their toes in the winter water once again with the swimming-pool horror Night Swim. Sadly it couldn’t kick-start the year in the same way that the studio did with 2023’s M3GAN ($30.2M), because the critically derided damp squib (read our ★★ review here) landed with a very moderate $12 million. The Wyatt Russell and Kerry Condon-led film only cost $15 million to produce, so taking into account the overseas gross of $5.7 million, Night Swim will still turn a profit, but it will be at the shallow end of the studio’s success stories.
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Elsewhere Universal and Illumination’s animated duck flick Migration continued to flap its wings to the tune of 10.5 million. After three weeks this really-rather-good slice of family-fare has managed to gross $78 million in North America and $150 million around the world.
There was also more good news for Sony’s R-rated comedy stable, because following the success of 2023’s No Hard Feelings ($87M WW), their Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell vehicle Anyone But You scored a rare 9% increase over the previous weekend’s gross. The $25 million budgeted comedy has now amassed $43.7 million at the domestic box-office.
Finally, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom managed to flounder across the $100 million mark after three weeks of release by adding a further $10.6 million to its total. The Warner Bros. and DC era-ending sequel has earned a worldwide total of $334.8 million.
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