The holiday season is in full swing, with Christmas falling this Sunday and a few new releases in store for the busy end-of-the-year movie-going rush.
This weekend will likely be a notch smaller than last year’s 144 million Christmas-weekend haul, and like last year the three-day numbers will be depressed by having the soft movie-going day of Christmas Eve fall over the weekend.
Still, Avatar: The Way of Water should lead a relatively strong finish to the year (remember the overall box office was a brutally low 57.6 million just two weekends ago).While the newcomers Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Babylon, and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody all have potential, as does the expansion of The Whale, Avatar: The Way of Water remains the major box office story of this weekend and many weekends to come.
James Cameron’s expensive sci-fi epic certainly needs strong holds after
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