Disney’s ‘Encanto’ Leads Another Quiet Weekend at Box Office

Adding $30 million on Thursday from 4,336 locations, “No Way Home” has a domestic box office total of $386 million and $876 million worldwide, passing the $821 million total of the Chinese film “Hi, Mom” for second place on the global charts for the year.

It’s going to be a really rich Christmas for exhibition, Sony and Marvel as Spider-Man: No Way Home barrels toward potentially the third best 2nd weekend ever with around $143M over the long Christmas period of Dec. 24-27.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Spider-Man: No Way Home” shrugged off new health restrictions in South Korea to earn the biggest box office opening weekend since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.The film earned $15.0 million between Friday and Sunday, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council.

Holdovers Drive My Car, Red Rocket and The Scary Of Sixty First looked good in limited runs on a weekend with few new specialty releases and even fewer numbers. Streamers – which presented The Lost Daughter (Netflix), Swan Song (Apple) and The Tender Bar (Amazon), don’t reveal them and smaller distributors often report early in the week.

For all the mishegaas exhibition has endured during the pandemic including streaming threats, day-and-date window crunching, older demos not showing up, local ordinances and countless release date changes and eliminations, Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home arrives this weekend to save the day.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSouth Korea’s nationwide box office dropped to a miserable $3.44 million over the weekend, despite the presence of a local film in top spot. The country ‘s cinemas earned 32% less than the previous weekend and are beginning to struggle with quota issues, according to local media.“Nothing Serious,” a Korean-made comedy romance, floated from third place to the top, despite its weekend takings shrinking by 30% to just $670,000.

Despite rave reviews and the deft direction of Steven Spielberg, “West Side Story” did not manage to bring movie fans into theatres for the opening weekend of the new reimagining of the beloved musical.

After a year’s delay due to the pandemic, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the Broadway classic and 10x Oscar-winning 1961 movie, West Side Story, finally tunes up this weekend as the sole wide major studio theatrical release in 2,800 U.S./Canada theaters and offshore debuts in France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and UK. All in, the global outlook is $22M-$31M, with $12M-$17M coming from domestic and $10M-$14M from abroad. The 20th Century Studios-Amblin production is being released by Disney.

Naman Ramachandran Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci,” starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver, continued atop the U.K. and Ireland box office in its second weekend.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAction-adventure film, “Schemes in Antiques” grabbed the top spot at the mainland China box office with a solid $25.6 million debut.It deposed crime comedy “Be Somebody” which had topped the chart for the past three weekends and earned $13.3 million in its fourth weekend, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway.

Refresh for latest..: We’re in a sort of holding pattern at the international box office, as big year-end titles are still in the wings. This weekend was all about holdover business — and some further market launches on major pics already in release elsewhere. Last frame’s debut, Disney’s Encanto, leads the session again for the studios with a solid 30% drop, adding $20.7M from 49 material markets for an overseas cume of $58.1M and a global total of $116.1M.

For the weekend, Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age film has an average of $55,832, which is higher than the opening weekend average of any other film this year. In pre-pandemic times, a film like “Licorice Pizza” would usually start expanding to theaters in the top 10 markets leading up to a wide release on Christmas Day or early January.

Encanto is still on top.

With no new wide releases, Disney’s “Encanto” stayed No. 1 with just $12.7 million grossed in its second weekend.

J. Kim Murphy administratorAs is fitting for the days after Thanksgiving, moviegoers are largely turning out for leftovers this weekend.

The arthouse is awash with well reviewed new offerings from Danish animated doc Flee to Paulo Sorrentino’s Hand of God to IFC’s Benedetta heading into awards season and amid a paucity of new wide releases.

2021 was the year of The Weeknd and Justin Bieber, with both of the superstars releasing chart-topping hits, which took the top spots on YouTube’s list of most watched music videos in Canada.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Spiritwalker,” a fantasy action film about a man who wakes up in a new body every twelve hours, grabbed the top spot at the South Korean box office over the weekend.