Box office top 20: 'Doctor Strange,' 'Trolls' stay on top
Box office top 20: 'Doctor Strange,' 'Trolls' stay on top
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marvel's mystical superhero adventure "Doctor Strange" and the musical animated release "Trolls" remained No. 1 and No. 2 at the box office for the second straight weekend, while new releases "Arrival" and "Almost Christmas" opened strongly.
Disney's "Doctor Strange" took in $43 million over the weekend, according to final ticket sales figures Monday.
The Amy Adams-led science-fiction thriller "Arrival" debuted with a better-than-expected $24.1 million.
[...] the holiday-themed comedy "Almost Christmas" also landed solidly with $15.1 million.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore:
Origin Of Evil, Universal, $1,730,605, 1,538 locations, $1,125 average, $34,240,695, 4 weeks.
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC