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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 12 noveMber 2018
‘Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch’ makes off with $66M at box office

By ANDREW DALTON horror hybrid “Overlord”
AP Entertainment Writer was third in its first week-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — You’re end with $10.1 million. Dis-
a mean one — and you’re ney’s “The Nutcracker and
number one — Mr. Grinch. the Four Realms” brought
“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” sled- in $9.5 million and finished
ded past mixed reviews fourth in its second week.
and made off with $66 mil- The weekend’s other major
lion for Universal Pictures debut, “The Girl in the Spi-
to top the weekend North der’s Web,” made just $8
American box office, ac- million and finished fifth.
cording to studio estimates Illumination’s “Grinch,” nar-
Sunday. rated by Pharrell Williams,
Last week’s top film, the gives the title character,
Queen biopic “Bohemian voiced by Benedict Cum- This file image released by Universal Pictures shows the characters Cindy-Lou Who, voiced by
Rhapsody,” drops to sec- berbatch, a backstory in Cameron Seely, left, and Grinch, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, in a scene from “The Grinch.”
ond for 20th Century Fox an orphanage and fills out Associated Press
with a $30.8 million week- the story of his foil Cindy had it bringing in closer dia analyst for Comscore. tal of $10 billion faster than
end that brings its overall Lou Who. to $60 million, continuing “’Bohemian Rhapsody’ in any other year, Derga-
take to $100 million. It’s the second Seuss ad- what’s become a trend in was bigger than expected, rabedian said.
Illumination, the Universal- aptation for Illumination. 2018. ‘A Star Is Born’ was bigger The Christmas theme of
owned animators behind Its version of “The Lorax” “’The Grinch’ is just the than expected. It’s fueling “The Grinch” could sustain
“The Minions” and “Despi- opened with a compa- latest in a string of over- a box-office surge.” it through the holidays and
cable Me,” produced the rable $70 million weekend performers,” said Paul Der- The industry has reached a Universal hopes it has a lon-
latest interpretation of Se- and went on to gross $348.8 garabedian, senior me- cumulative box office to- ger life than that.q
uss’ 1957 book that led to million worldwide.
a 1966 TV special and first “The Grinch” was widely
came to the big screen as expected to be No. 1 with
a live-action feature star- few other major openings
ring Jim Carrey in 2000. this weekend, but it sur-
Paramount Pictures’ war- passed projections that

NYC’s Rockefeller

Center Christmas

tree goes up

Workers prepare to raise the 2018 Rockefeller Center Christmas
tree into position at Rockefeller Plaza, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018
in New York.
Associated Press
By VERENA DOBNIK and JU- skating rink.
LIE WALKER Crowds will see the tree
Associated Press burst alive with 5 miles (8
NEW YORK (AP) — The kilometers) of LED mul-
Rockefeller Center Christ- ticolored lights and a
mas tree is in place and will 900-pound Swarovski crys-
soon be strung with 50,000 tal star during a televised
lights as one of New York ceremony on Nov. 28.
City’s star holiday attrac- The 75-year-old spruce
tions, a gift from a same- came from Wallkill, 60 miles
sex married couple. (96 kilometers) north of
The 72-foot-tall, 12-ton New York. It was donated
Norway spruce arrived on by Lissette Gutierrez and
a flatbed trailer Saturday her wife, Shirley Figueroa,
morning and was hoisted from their home property.
by a crane into a spot They nicknamed the tree
overlooking the Rockefeller “Shelby.” q