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A30 PEOPLE & ARTS
Monday 9 deceMber 2019
‘Frozen 2’ leads box office again; ‘Playmobil’ flops

By JAKE COYLE release this year to cross
Associated Press $1 billion, a record sure to
NEW YORK (AP) — “Frozen grow to seven once “Star
2” blanketed multiplexes Wars: The Rise of Skywalk-
for the third straight week- er” hits theaters later this
end, continuing its reign at month. Early next week,
No. 1 with $34.7 million in Disney will cross $10 billion
ticket sales, according to at the global box office this
studio estimates Sunday. year.
The Walt Disney Co. ani- But the weekend over-
mated sequel has al- all at the box office was
ready grossed $919.7 mil- yet another disappointing
lion worldwide. It will soon one for the movie indus-
become the sixth Disney try. A handful of under-

This image released by Disney shows Elsa, voiced by Idina Menzel, from left, Anna, voiced by
Kristen Bell, Kristoff, voiced by Jonathan Groff and Sven in a scene from the animated film, “Frozen
2.”
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performing releases and a giving it a per-theater av- cumulatively and $124.1
relatively thin wide-release erage of just $286. million worldwide, the Li-
schedule have only grown A handful of companies onsgate release has been
the roughly 7% slide in do- combined to produce the one of the season’s bright
mestic ticket sales from last $75 million French film, in- spots.
year. cluding Wild Bunch and So has James Mangold’s
This weekend produced Pathe. “Ford v Ferrari,” which
an outright flop in “Playmo- The top five films were al- stayed in third place with
bil: The Movie,” the week’s most unchanged from last $6.5 million over its fourth
only new wide release. The weekend. weekend. The racing
STX Films release was never Rian Johnson’s acclaimed, drama, starring Matt Da-
expected to do well, but star-studded whodunit mon and Christian Bale,
it bombed so thoroughly “Knives Out” remained in has sped to a global take
that it will rank among the second place with $14.2 of $168 million for Disney,
worst-performing wide- million, declining a modest which acquired the film’s
releases ever. It grossed 47% in its second week of original studio, 20th Cen-
$670,000 in 2,337 venues, release. With $63.5 million tury Fox, earlier this year. q

Rapper Juice WRLD dies after medical

emergency in Chicago

By SOPHIA TAREEN top of the charts with the Authorities have not re-
MESFIN FEKADU Sting-sampled hit “Lucid leased details about his
Associated Press Dreams,” died Sunday af- cause of death.
CHICAGO (AP) — Rap- ter a “medical emergen- The Cook County medical
per Juice WRLD, who cy” at Chicago’s Midway examiner’s office was noti-
launched his career on International Airport. fied of Higgin’s death Sun-
SoundCloud before be- The rapper, whose legal day morning, according
coming a streaming jug- name was Jarad A. Hig- to office spokeswoman
gernaut and rose to the gins, was 21. Natalia Derevyanny, who
said an autopsy was likely
Monday.
Chicago police launched
a death investigation af-
ter a 21-year-old male
experiencing a “medical
emergency” was trans-
ported from Midway to
an area hospital where he
was pronounced dead.
Chicago Fire Department
spokesman Larry Langford
said the man experienced
cardiac arrest and was
taken to a hospital from a
small hangar at Midway,
In this May 15, 2019 file photo, Juice WRLD performs in concert away from the main termi-
during his “Death Race for Love Tour” at The Skyline Stage at nal, where private planes
The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. land. q
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