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On track to close the weekend with $33-39 million, it should retain its crown on the chart as well.<\/p>\n<p>Its closest competition will come from &#8220;Jumanji: The Next Level.&#8221; The film took #2 Friday with $8.6 million and should close the weekend with another $27-31 million in receipts.<\/p>\n<p>The new version of &#8220;The Grudge,&#8221; the weekend&#8217;s only major new release, grabbed #3 Friday with $5.4 million. The critically panned film may drop even lower for the weekend, however.<\/p>\n<p>Its three-day projection of $11-14 million trails that of Friday&#8217;s #4 film &#8220;Little Women&#8221; ($4.4 million Friday, projected for $12.5-15 million weekend). It is in the same ballpark as Friday&#8217;s #5 film &#8220;Frozen II&#8221; ($3.9 million Friday, projected for $10.5-13 million weekend).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new horror film could go even lower on the final weekend chart.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36,1050],"tags":[13165,13217,13251,13214,13250],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Rise Of Skywalker&quot; Remains #1 At US Friday Box Office; &quot;The Grudge&quot; Takes #3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The final #1 film of 2019 will rule the first weekend of 2020. &quot;Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker&quot; 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