‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Barely Edges ‘The Grinch’ to Remain Box Office Champ

Disney’s ‘Wreck-it Ralph’ sequel holds off Illumination’s Christmas tale to take top spot for third straight week.

By Dan Sarto | Monday, December 10, 2018 at 12:27pm
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Original Link: https://www.awn.com/news/ralph-breaks-internet-barely-edges-grinch-remain-box-office-champ
Holding onto the top spot for the third straight week, Walt Disney Animation Studio’s Ralph Breaks the Internet narrowly beat out Illumination and Universal Pictures’ The Grinch in a relatively quiet pre-holiday weekend, adding another $16.1 million for a total domestic haul of $140.8. With an additional $117 million generated overseas, the Wreck-it Ralph sequel’s worldwide gross stands at $258.7 million since its Thanksgiving release.By comparison, Wreck-It Ralph earned $189.4 million domestically and $307.9 internationally for a total of $496.5 million globally following its 2012 release.

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In its fifth week of release, The Grinch took in $15.1 million, good enough for second place, bringing its domestic box office cume to $223.4 million. with a total worldwide gross of $325.3 million. The studios’ last feature, Despicable Me 3, generated more than $264 million domestically and $1 billion worldwide when it was released during the summer of 2017.

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Warner’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald held on to fourth place, adding $6.8 million to bring its domestic haul to $145.2 million. With an international cume of $423 million, the second JK Rowling Harry Potter prequel has generated $568.5 at the global box office. The first prequel, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, released in November 2016, took in $234 million domestically, with a global box office take of over $814 million.

Overall, the North American box office is running almost 10% ahead of where it stood at this point in 2017, quickly approaching $11 billion for the year.

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(Box Office numbers obtained via Box Office Mojo.)

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