The 25 Highest-Grossing Animated Films Of All Time At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/p>\n\n\tFRIDAY AM UPDATE: Paramount\/18Hz\u2019s Primate rang up $1.4M from both Thursday night showtimes and previous previews. Meanwhile, Lionsgate\/STX\u2019s Greenland 2: Migration did $900K. Triple note on that Gerard Butler movie: Canada isn\u2019t going this weekend. Primate and Greenland 2 were forecast to make $8M-$10M heading into this weekend.<\/p>\n
\n\tDespite the entry of two older-male-skewing titles, Avatar: Fire and Ash is expected to hold on to No. 1 in its fourth weekend with $20M-$22M. The James Cameron-directed threequel grossed $2.5M yesterday, ending its third week at $55M for a running cume of $321.2M.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Johannes Roberts-directed, Walter Hamada-produced $21M Primate opens today in 2,964 locations. Internationally, the film opens this week in 26 markets including Mexico. That 90% fresh Rotten Tomatoes critics score has simmered down to 78% fresh, which is still notable for an R-rated horror movie. Oz Perkins\u2019 The Monkey last year had a 77% certified fresh RT score in reviews. Speaking of which, Primate\u2018s previews are about $500K shy of Monkey\u2018s $1.9M (which turned into a $5.8M Friday\/previews and $14M opening).<\/p>\n
\n\tButler\u2019s Lionsgate movie from a year ago, Den of Thieves: Pantera, did $1.35M in previews before a $5.7M Friday and a $15M No. 1 debut. The first Greenland was 77% certified fresh with audiences during the pandemic (remember, it only got a PVOD play), and Part 2 is lower at 59%. Greenland 2 was made for $90M, but Lionsgate only took U.S. for $10M. Elevation will be releasing the sequel in Canada as PVOD via Amazon.<\/p>\n
\n\tPer Comscore, 76% of colleges are on break today, a number that declines to 42% on Monday but spikes back up to 94% the following Monday on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in addition to K-12 being 94% on break.<\/p>\n
\n\tTop pics of the week:<\/p>\n
Avatar: Fire and Ash (20th) 3,835 theaters, Wk $55M (-51%), Total $321.2M\/Wk 3<\/p>\n
Zootopia 2 (Dis) 3,285 theaters, Wk $24M (-44%), Total $368.7M\/Wk 6<\/p>\n
The Housemaid (LG) 3,070 theaters, Wk $22.1M (-26%), Total $82.9M\/Wk 3<\/p>\n
Marty Supreme (A24) 2,887 theaters, Wk $18.8M (-39%) Total $62.2M\/Wk 3<\/p>\n
Anaconda (Sony) 3,509 theaters, Wk $13.2M (-51%), Total $49.1M\/Wk 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIDAY PM UPDATE: In a weekend where a chimp with rabies is looking to scare more people into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,155906,134,212872,344,103568,93905],"class_list":{"0":"post-403730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-avatar-fire-ash","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-greenland-migration","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-primate","15":"tag-the-housemaid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}