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World Box Office Analysis 27th - 29th December 2019: The Rise Of Skywalker stays at the top with Spies In Disguise making a strong debut

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
J.J. Abrams epic end to the Skywalker Saga remains at the top for a second weekend over the Christmas period while the animated movie Spies In Disguise makes its debut inside the top 5.

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

Second week of release for the Lucasfilms/Disney end of saga release and it retains its place at the top of the box office with a weekend gross of $166.3 Million from 53 countries.

This pushes the films total gross to $724.7 Million after 2 weeks of release, the movie should make it to over a Billion but it will have its work cut out to beat the $1.3 Billion of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Jumanji: The Next Level

Director Jake Kasdan's Jumanji sequel remains at number 2 this week with a weekend gross of $96.9 Million from 63 countries.

this takes to films total global gross to $471.4 Million after 3 weeks of release, the movie may struggle to get over a Billion in total gross as did Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle 2 years ago.

Frozen II

Disney's sequel to one of its highest grossing animated movies takes $58.7 Million this week from 54 countries and is at number 3.

The film now has a total gross of $1.2 Billion after 6 weeks of release and has now surpassed to total gross of the first Frozen movie.

Spies In Disguise

Spies In Disguise

Disney inherited this Will Smith and Tom Holland starring movie in its buyout of 20th Century Fox and the film lands at number 4 this week with $29.2 Million from 33 countries.

Including previews this gives the film a total gross to date of $38 Million.

IP Man 4: The Finale

The sequel movie from China takes $28.8 Million this week from 12 countries putting it at number 5 on the global box office and its total sites at $111.8 Million after 2 weeks of release.

This weeks top 10 World Box Office films

  1. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - $166,300,000
  2. Jumanji: The Next Level - $96,900,000
  3. Frozen II - $58,700,000
  4. Spies In Disguise - $29,200,000
  5. IP Man 4: The Finale - $28,852,000
  6. Little Women - $22,825,000
  7. Cats - $18,430,000
  8. Sheep Without a Shepherd - $17,214,000
  9. Knives Out - $15,725,000
  10. Ashfall - $11,156,000
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