The film ‘Jumanji’ leads box office pack over US holiday weekend


Jumanji featuring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart $35.2 million over the weekend, with a total revenue of $291.3 million since release date.


Sony’s family film “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” had a lock on the top spot at the North American box office this holiday weekend, for the second straight week.
Jumanji, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, funnymen Jack Black and Kevin Hart, netted $35.2 million over the Martin Luther King Day weekend, bringing its domestic total to $291.3 million in its fourth week out, industry tracker Exhibitor Relations reported.
The film features four teens who mysteriously find themselves inside the video game world of Jumanji.
On the second spot was Fox’s “The Post,” which netted in $23 million over the Friday-Monday MLK weekend after heading into wide release.
A critically-acclaimed film starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, the political thriller recounts the nail-biting behind-the-scenes story of the 1971 publication by The Washington Post of the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the lies behind US involvement in the Vietnam War.
And for the third place was Fox’s “The Greatest Showman” which tells the story of larger-than-life circus impresario P.T. Barnum. The film netted $16.2 million

“The Commuter,” a new action thriller from Lionsgate, took $15.8 million in its first week, putting it in fourth place.
In the film, a man played by Liam Neeson takes his regular train ride home and is unwittingly enticed into a murder conspiracy by a mysterious woman, played by Vera Farmiga. He had to fight himself out of the mystery that lied ahead.
“Paddington 2” netted $15 million to take the fifth spot.
And “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” brought in $14.6 million in North America for sixth place. The space saga stars Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver and two members of the series’ original cast, Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker and the late Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia.
And the last three films to round off the top 10 were:
“Insidious: the Last Key” ($14.3 million)
“Proud Mary” ($11.7 million)
“Pitch Perfect 3” ($7.3 million)

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