Christmas Day this year saw the box office draw its best post-COVID numbers, multiple titles delivering a combined domestic total of $68.4 million.
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” was on top with $24 million, down 18% from the $29.1 million that “Avatar: The Way of Water” earned on Christmas Day 2022, with the film hitting a total of $153.6 million domestically as of the end of it first week.
In second was “Marty Supreme” which pulled in $9.5 million on Christmas Day. The A24 title has multiple similarities to “Uncut Gems” (co-director, release date, distributor, tone, etc.), and going into the weekend projections suggested it would do similar opening business – not good considering it cost over three times as much.
Well, the good news is its numbers beat expectations – the title took in $9.5 million on Christmas Day, which beat the $7.2 million Christmas Day start of star Timothee Chalamet’s Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” last year. The film is looking to be on track for an over $20 million debut over its four-day Thursday-Sunday haul.
Sony’s meta “Anaconda” reboot comedy took in $9 million on Christmas Day and is heading for a $20 million four day start – in line with the $16.6 million three-day opening weekend the 1997 original “Anaconda” did.
Disney’s “Zootopia 2” was fourth with $5.3 million, wihle “David” was fifth with $4.6 million. “Song Sung Blue,” which landed a stellar A Cinema Score, debuted with $4.4 million.
Source: Deadline
