On Fandango, the first day of Spider-Man: No Way Home beat the initial 24-hour sales of Black Widow, Avengers: Infinity War, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Tickets went on sale for No Way Home last Monday. More importantly for both exhibitors, No Way Home also repped their second-best day of presales after Avengers: Endgame, which translated into an all-time domestic opening record of $357.1M. This year will have one more huzzah, as reported earlier this week, and that’s Sony/Disney-MCU’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, which broke first-day ticket presales records for the pandemic for both the No. No, streaming-obsessed Wall Street analysts, just because this weekend sucked at the box office, doesn’t mean it’s an opportunity for you to tap-dance on the future worthiness of theatrical. ‘Flee,’ ‘Wolf,’ ‘Hand Of God,’ ‘Benedetta’, Arthur Ashe Doc, Jeffrey Epstein Horror Satire Open Eclectic Arthouse Weekend – Specialty Box Office It is also the #2 film in Germany, Spain, UK, Iceland, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Taiwan and #2 non-local film in Japan. Encanto in its second weekend abroad was #1 film in France, Italy, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, Argentina, Kuwait, Qatar, South Africa and the smaller Latin American territories and #1 non-local film in Korea, Sweden, Turkey and Bahrain. The Colombia-set Latino animated film stands at $116M WW to date. That movie made it to $104.4M, and rival analysts believe Encanto will click past $100M stateside. That movie, which posted a wide debut (after a limited run) of $24.2M. The Good Dinosaur ($15.3M) and Tangled ($21.6M), however, it’s a tad higher than the second wide December weekend of The Princess and the Frog which in the lead-up to Christmas did $12.1M in its second frame over Dec. That second weekend is lower than the pre-pandemic second weekend takes of some of Disney’s lowest grossing Thanksgiving titles, i.e. Read Encanto,which grossed $12.7M estimated second weekend, -53%. And even duly so over omicron headlines, coupled with a Disney animated movie that isn’t as mass-appealing as its predecessors.

Sunday Writethru final with chart: As is typical, the weekend following the Thanksgiving stretch is a downer.

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