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‘Sonic’ & ‘Mufasa’ Brawl Over No. 1; ‘Nosferatu’ Feasts $40M+; ‘A Complete Unknown’ Rockin’ $23M+ 5-Day — Post-Christmas Box Office Update
'Mufasa' is having a comeback at the post Christmas box office with $58M over 5-days while Focus Features is experiencing a renaissance with 'Nosferatu' and Searchlight with 'A Complete Unknown'.
At 3-days, Nosferatu is bound to rank as the fourth best for Focus after Downton Abbey($31M), Insidious 3($23.7M) and London Has Fallen($21.6M) — still excellent for this arthouse label which has been guard-railed by Comcast Universal’s 17-day PVOD window. In a theatrical marketplace which continues to compete with streaming on mid-sized films, the success here for Nosferatu and A Complete Unknown should be duly noted and provide plenty of hope for the greenlighting of such fare as we head into a 2025 box office year, untainted by strikes and (knock on wood) a pandemic. With A Complete Unknown, it’s all accessible movie about Bob Dylan which adults (62% over 35) haven’t had before in the hands of a director who knows how to create passion and warmth from the warts and all of such onstage artists (read, the Oscar winning Walk the Line which opened to $22.3M and legged out to $119.5M domestic).
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