Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle has ended up back on top of the box office where it has spent three of the past four weekends. Maze Runner: The Death Cure interrupted Jumanji’s streak last weekend in its debut, but has now fallen to second place. Jumanji scored $10.9 million and Maze Runner settled for $10.4 million this Super Bowl weekend.

The sequel to the 22-year-old Robin Williams blockbuster has now grossed $352.5 million domestically. Jumanji is about to overtake Furious 7 ($353.0m) as Dwayne Johnson’s highest domestic grosser. The Secret Life of Pets ($368.3m) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($389.8m) stand in the way for Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan respectively.

Jumanji 2 now has an $857.6 million worldwide cume, which has taken Thor: Ragnarok’s ($852.7m) spot as the eighth highest-grossing movie of 2017. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ($863.8m), Wolf Warrior 2 ($870.3m) and Spider-Man: Homecoming ($880.2m) are in Jack Black’s way.

Maze Runner: The Death Cure has pulled in $40.0 million domestically so far. The third film in the Maze Runner franchise is pacing 22.9% behind the previous installment domestically through 10 days of release. However, The Death Cure has grossed $143.1 million from foreign territories for a $183.2 million worldwide total. The Death Cure carried a production budget of $62 million.

The Helen Mirren horror movie Winchester, the only new wide release this weekend, grossed $9.3 million. The movie is inspired by the true story of Sarah Winchester, the heiress to the fortune of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., who was believed to have used her fortune to move out west in a mansion and continually build on to said mansion for the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles. The horror movie has Mirren as Winchester coming face to face with these ghosts.

Winchester was acquired for $3.55 million and had marketing in the “mid-teens”, according to Forbes. On IMDb, the movie is said to expand into most of its foreign markets throughout February and March.

The Greatest Showman is now at $137.3 million domestically after a $7.6 million Super Bowl weekend. It has now overtaken The Wolverine ($132.5m) as Hugh Jackman’s ninth highest-grossing movie domestically and is now Michelle Williams’ second highest grosser behind Oz the Great and Powerful ($234.9m).

The Post took in $5.2 million this weekend and now sits at $67.2 million domestically. It overtakes The Manchurian Candidate ($65.9m) as Meryl Streep’s tenth highest-grossing movie domestically. The Christian Bale western Hostiles came in right behind with a $5.1 million weekend and $20.8 million domestic total. Hostiles was bought for $4 million with $20 million to $30 million spent on marketing, according to Forbes.

This pre-Valentine’s Day weekend, cuddle up with your boo for either the Clint Eastwood-directed The 15:17 to Paris, the one where the main character is James Corden as an anthropomorphic CGI animal Peter Rabbit or the hottest climax to hit IMAX theaters Fifty Shades Freed.

Box office information, unless otherwise noted, is from Box Office Mojo.

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Bryan Weatherall
February 6, 2018 at 1:25 pm
I wonder if this will mean a Jumanji sequel is coming? The movie is doing so well!
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Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is a film which comes written and directed by Quentin Tarantino who some may know for films such as The Hateful Eight (2015) or Pulp Fiction (1994). The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Dakota Fanning and Al Pacino. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is about a fading Hollywood actor and his stunt double who are striving to achieve success in the final years of the Hollywood golden age.

Before going into this film, I must admit I was quite excited about it. This is the 9th film from Quentin Tarantino, who is one of my favourite directors of all time and the cast is filled with so many great actors there’s no reason to not want to see this one. Even though my expectations for this film were set very high, I came out of the cinema incredibly happy, very entertained and extremely impressed with what I just saw. Quentin Tarantino has truly delivered something very special this year and I highly recommend going to see it.

The way the story is told is very interesting. The audience follows the career of Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is trying to maintain his stardom and Hollywood status in a time when things are changing. The actor is trying to transition from being a major TV star to a Hollywood actor, but it’s very difficult. On top of this, Rick Dalton is ageing and he is no longer in his prime, he’s sort of becoming obsolete. Cliff (Brad Pitt) is sharing a similar fate with his career tied to the success or failure of Rick’s. In contrast to these two, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) is a character who is everything good about Hollywood in 1969, her personality is welcoming, she helps people and she’s friendly. Quentin Tarantino’s Sharon Tate is the ideal Hollywood star of the time.

Quentin Tarantino with this film captured the spirit and essence of Hollywood in 1969. I felt like I was watching real people going through real things. The attention to detail on each of the characters and also watching them develop as the film progresses was very well done. This film also one has of the best endings and is maybe the best film that I’ve seen in 2019.

The actors were all great, I really enjoyed watching Leonardo DiCaprio in this film. The actor has a very wide range of things he could do as his character Rick Dalton is going through quite a lot and there are a lot of different emotional elements. On top of this, as a character who is an actor, Rick is seen acting in other films within this film as different characters he is playing. There are some very good performances within this film from Rick Dalton and in some ways, I wish I could watch the films that he was making within this film. Brad Pitt does very well and so too does Margot Robbie. Dakota Fanning surprised me a lot in this film as I didn’t even recognise her as Squeaky Fromme, she was only in the film for a bit, but for that time she was, she was very impactful.

Overall, I have no further comments to make about this film without having to go into major spoilers discussing all the different elements of it. It’s hard to write a long review for a film when everything was awesome in it. The directing, acting, writing, music and everything else about Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was awesome and Quentin Tarantino exceeded my expectations for this film. It may just be one of his best ones yet. I highly recommend going to see it at the cinema this week or as soon as you can. I am already wanting to see it a second time and probably will re-watch it on Blu-Ray when it’s released.

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