Box Office: ‘Croods 2’ Tops $60 Million Worldwide

Since Universal released The Croods: A New Age into theaters in North America mostly to use the title as a high-end test subject for their PVOD deal (whereby a new release could debut at home in as little as 17 days after theatrical opening day), its domestic box office is mostly trivia.

Truth be told, with Comcast
CMCSA
dominating six of the top seven spots this weekend, with titles that were all offered up as sacrificial lambs both to help theaters keep the lights on and to provide fodder for the PVOD scheme, there’s a case to be made that domestic box office is mostly trivia at least until Wonder Woman 1984 opens overseas on December 16.

The Croods: A New Age was the top movie of the weekend in North America, grossing $4.4 million (-54%) for the second Fri-Sun frame to give it a $20.3 million 12-day cume. For what it’s worth, the film will be past the likes of Unhinged ($20 million) and The New Mutants ($23 million) by next weekend. Along with Chris Nolan’s Tenet ($57.6 million as of tonight), the DreamWorks Animation sequel is the second-biggest domestic grosser since March.

For what it’s worth, the 54% weekend drop is on par with Thanksgiving toons. At the low end, Rise of the Guardians dropped just 43% in 2012 following a disappointing $23 million launch, while The Good Dinosaur dropped 60% after a disastrous $39 million Fri-Sun debut in 2015. In between sits Coco (-45),  Moana (-50%), Frozen (-53%), Tangled (-55%) and Penguins of Madagascar (-57%).

While we’re obviously dealing with comparatively miniscule grosses (Frozen nabbed a $67 million Fri-Sun weekend and even Penguins of Madagascar earned $25 million over the Fri-Sun frame), it’s worth noting that the legs aren’t any longer. The likes of TenetThe War with Grandpa ($17.6 million) and Unhinged pulled comparatively solid legs following relatively low ($3.7 million to $9.4 million) opening weekends. 

The Croods 2 is thus far, be it due to theater closures, worsening coronavirus infection rates or old-fashioned demand being met on opening weekend, playing like a DWA or Disney/Pixar toon that just opened with big bucks over Thanksgiving weekend. Of course, that the title is headed for PVOD on/around December 17, well, as I said, this is trivia.

The $65 million-budgeted flick has earned $60.6 million worldwide thus far, with much of the world still left to open. The film earned $12.2 million in China (a terrific -36% hold, partially thanks to Monster Hunter being pulled at the last minute), for a new $36.6 million cume, already the year’s third biggest Hollywood export behind Mulan ($40 million) and Tenet ($66 million). It’s going to make more in raw theatrical box office than Mulan ($66 million), which is shocking even with the various asterisks.

That this DWA sequel cost around half the (depending on who you ask) $135-$175 million original means that it could very well be a hit in theaters alone. The PVOD launch (for which Comcast will get around 80% of the revenue as opposed to a standard 50/50 theatrical split) will have to do that much less heavy lifting.

Half Brothers, a comedy about a Mexican aviation exec who learns he has a half-brother and embarks on a road trip with the sibling to honor their father’s dying wish, opened in 1,369 theaters this weekend courtesy of Focus Features. The film earned $720,000 which was good enough to make it the number two movie.

Freaky earned $450,000 (-44%) in weekend four as it debuted on PVOD this past Thursday, bringing the $5 million Blumhouse body swap horror comedy’s cume to $7.74 million domestic and $13.31 million worldwide.

Universal also released All My Life, a true-story romantic tragedy starring Harry Shum Jr. and Jessica Rothe, into 970 theaters and earned $350,000. Come Play has now earned $8.98 million while Let Him Go (both of which are now on PVOD too) has earned $9.02 million.

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