Fantastic Beasts Beats Bohemian Rhapsody & Venom To The Top Of The Box Office

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The weekend box office results have been released and as expected, Warner Brother’s Harry Potter spinoff, ‘Fantastic Beasts: Crimes Of Grindelwald’, beat out all of Disney’s movies in the domestic and global charts.

But Venom continues to do very well in China, keeping in top the top 3, which has been a runaway hit for Sony as the movie is connecting with Marvel fans around the world.

Fox movies also continue to fill out the box office with the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody securing its place as the second biggest movie in the world this week, though in the US, the new animated Grinch movie pushed past it.  Fox’s Widows also enters the charts.

Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms slips further down the charts, though next weekend’s Ralph Breaks The Internet will no doubt perform better.

Comscore’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian commented, “Warner Bros.’ enjoys yet another stellar debut with ‘Fantastic Beasts: Crimes Of Grindelwald’ conjuring up a magic spell of $191.0 million in 79 international territories and when combined with its number one North American debut of $62.2 million, the global weekend raked in a massive $253.2 million.  Notably Sony’s ‘Venom’ continues to perform well in China taking the number one spot there for the second straight weekend earning $51.2 million and pushing its global total to $780.5 million.”

The top 12 worldwide weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, November 18, are below.

  1. Fantastic Beasts: Crimes Of Grindelwald – Warner Bros. – $253.2M
  2. Bohemian Rhapsody – 20th Century Fox – $61.2M
  3. Venom – Sony – $56.9M
  4. Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch – Universal – $47.6M
  5. Widows – 20th Century Fox – $15.1M
  6. Instant Family – Paramount Pictures – $14.7M
  7. Nutcracker And The Four Realms, The – Disney – $11.4M
  8. Star Is Born, A – Warner Bros. – $9.8M
  9. Cool Fish, A – Multiple Chinese Distributors – $8.3M
  10. Burn The Stage: The Movie – Multiple – $7.6M
  11. Overlord – Paramount Pictures – $6.5M
  12. Girl In The Spider’s Web, The – Sony – $5.3M

The top 12 domestic weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, November 18, are below.

  1. Fantastic Beasts: Crimes Of Grindelwald – Warner Bros. – $62.2M
  2. Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch – Universal – $38.2M
  3. Bohemian Rhapsody – 20th Century Fox – $15.7M
  4. Instant Family – Paramount – $14.7M
  5. Widows – 20th Century Fox – $12.3M
  6. Nutcracker And The Four Realms, The – Disney – $4.7M
  7. Star Is Born, A – Warner Bros. – $4.3M
  8. Overlord – Paramount – $3.9M
  9. Girl In The Spider’s Web, The – Sony – $2.5M
  10. Burn The Stage: The Movie – Trafalgar Releasing – $2.3M
  11. Nobody’s Fool – Paramount – $2.3M
  12. Venom – Sony – $1.9M

What did you see at the cinema this week?

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