With no wide releases this weekend, it was a very quiet time at the nation's multiplexes. Leading the charge for the third straight week was DreamWorks Animation's The Croods: A New Age, which had a fairly small drop from the previous weekend, taking in $3.1 million. That brings its total to $24.3 million, pushing it past The New Mutants to be the second-highest-grossing film since theaters reopened.
Croods finished well ahead of the #2 film, the comedy Half Brothers, which managed $0.5 million for a ten-day total of $1.4 million. Jumping to third is the first of this weekend's numerous Christmas re-releases, the 2003 family comedy Elf. That film, which took in a surprise $173 million during its holiday season 2003 run, grossed $0.4 million this weekend for a re-release total of $1.5 million.
Going the other way, horror-comedy Freaky came in fourth, earning $0.3 million for a total of $8.2 million. The War With Grandpa was fifth, with $0.3 million itself for a gross of $18 million.
Two more Christmas re-releases, 2004's The Polar Express and 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, took the 6th and 7th spots. In 8th was romantic drama All My Life, whose ten-day total stands at $0.7 million. Rounding out the Top 10 was a re-release of 2017's Wonder Woman, ahead of the Christmas Day debut of Wonder Woman 1984, and horror flick Come Play.
This weekend brings out two movies, both of which could challenge Croods for the top spot. Monster Hunter stars Milla Jovovich as a member of an elite army unit who falls through a portal into a world of giant monsters. The film is directed by Jovovich's husband, Paul W.S. Anderson. The other newcomer is Fatale, which looks to be a Fatal Attraction ripoff with Hilary Swank in the Glenn Close role. Both have enough starpower that they should be able to debut above $1 million, but will either have enough juice to knock off The Croods? We'll find out next week.
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