{"id":75268,"date":"2016-11-27T13:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T18:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=75268"},"modified":"2016-11-27T13:46:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T18:46:54","slug":"moana-wins-weekend-box-office-allied-underwhelms-bad-santa-2-struggles-rules-dont-apply-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2016\/11\/27\/moana-wins-weekend-box-office-allied-underwhelms-bad-santa-2-struggles-rules-dont-apply-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Moana&#8221; Wins Weekend Box Office, &#8220;Allied&#8221; Underwhelms, &#8220;Bad Santa 2&#8221; Struggles, &#8220;Rules Don&#8217;t Apply&#8221; Flops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a tale of the good, the disappointing, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to new releases at the weekend US box office.<\/p>\n<p>The good?  New release &#8220;Moana&#8221; debuts as a convincing #1.  The film will debut with about $55.5 million for the Friday-Sunday window.  It will earn $81.1 million with Thanksgiving Eve and Thanksgiving included, marking the second-best Thanksgiving box office total ever (behind &#8220;Frozen,&#8221; $93.6 million).<\/p>\n<p>The disappointing?  While not an outright flop, &#8220;Allied&#8221; failed to make much noise.  It debuts at #4 with $13.0 million in the three-day weekend ($18.0 million since Wednesday).  &#8220;Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them&#8221; (#2, $45.1 million over three days for a cume of $156.2 million) and &#8220;Doctor Strange&#8221; (#3, $13.4 million over three days for a cume of $205.1 million) take higher positions.  &#8220;Arrival&#8221; (#5, $11.3 million over three days for a cume of $62.4 million).<\/p>\n<p>The bad?  &#8220;Bad Santa 2&#8221; opens at #8 with just $6.1 million over the Friday-Sunday period.  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