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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 5 February 2018
7 weeks later, ‘Jumanji’ is no. 1 at box office

By JAKE COYLE international-best $35.2 mil- the true-life tale of the 19th-
AP Film Writer lion this weekend. century heiress Sarah Win-
NEW YORK (AP) — The heir But it’s the fourth week- chester, opened with $9.3
to “Titanic” is ... “Jumanji: end out of seven in which million.
Welcome the Jungle”? the “Jumanji” reboot, star- Total ticket sales were
For the first time since James ring Dwayne Johnson and $92 million, according to
Cameron’s 1998 disaster Kevin Hart, has led all films comScore, a sum that
epic, a December release domestically. It has carved falls behind recent Super
has topped the weekend an unlikely path on route Bowl weekends — always
box office in February. Sev- to its record-setting run. among the quietest movie
en weeks after first opening Met with little initial fanfare, weekends of the year —
in theaters, Sony Pictures’ “Jumanji” played second but above the lowest gross-
“Jumanji” again took the fiddle for its first two weeks ing ever.
top spot at the North Amer- of release to “Star Wars: The Hollywood will instead be
ican box office with an es- Last Jedi.” largely focused on the
timated $11 million in ticket But riding good word of trailers debuting during
sales, according to studio mouth and relatively little Sunday’s NFL broadcast. This file image released by Sony Pictures shows Kevin Hart, from
estimates Sunday. family-film competition, About a dozen films will left, Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan and Jack Black in “Jumanji:
On a sluggish Super Bowl “Jumanji” has become one hope to capitalize on the Welcome to the Jungle.”
weekend, that was good of Sony’s biggest hits ever, largest U.S. broadcast of Associated Press
enough to surpass last ranking behind only its “Spi- the year with high-priced “Jurassic World: Fallen King- ter” and “Three Billboards
week’s no. 1 film, “Maze der-Man” films. It has now commercial spots intended dom,” Jennifer Lawrence’s Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
Runner: The Death Cure.” grossed $352.6 million in the to raise the awareness of “Red Sparrow,” Tom Guillermo del Toro’s “The
The third installment in the U.S. and Canada. upcoming spring releases Cruise’s “Mission: Impossi- Shape of Water,” which
YA trilogy slid 58 percent The Helen Mirren-led haunt- and some of the summer’s ble — Fallout” and another took the top honor at the
in its second week with ed-house horror film “Win- biggest would-be block- potential hit for Dwayne Directors Guild Awards on
$10.2 million in ticket sales. chester” was the sole new busters. Johnson: “Skyscraper.” Saturday, boosted its the-
Though “The Death Cure” wide release on a week- Disney hasn’t announced And for the first time, Fox ater count from 1,854 to
is behind the pace of the end that Hollywood typi- plans, but “Star Wars” fans Searchlight had films play- 2,341. The leading Oscar
first two “Maze Runner” cally cedes to football. The are hoping to see a spot for ing in 4,000 or more the- nominee with 13 nods, “The
films, it’s made $142.9 mil- poorly reviewed Lionsgate- the Han Solo spinoff. More aters, thanks to its Oscar fa- Shape of Water” still slid 21
lion overseas, including an CBS Films release, about likely on tap are ads for vorites “The Shape of Wa- percent with $4.3 million.q