Finally, it looks like Hollywood got the message. In the top 10 titles on this final weekend of 2023, only one ( 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom') is pure sequel. Add 'The Hunger Games - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' and only two are part of franchises. Long live originality!
'Wonka' (Warner Bros.), one of the company's unprecedented three wide releases for Christmas, reclaimed the #1 spot with $24 million for three days. It's doing fine, with a 30 percent jump from last weekend (not unusual over the holidays, more so with Christmas Eve last Sunday). Through three weekends, the domestic total is $135 million and worldwide will cross $400 million by Monday. It should easily pass $200 million domestic and $500 million worldwide, which is fine for a $125 million-budgeted film.
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