DreamWorks Animation’s “The Croods: A New Age” topped an anemic domestic box office, grossing just over $2 million in its twelfth week of release.
The family film has earned roughly $49 million since it opened last fall.
It is eyeing a Presidents’ Day weekend gross of $2.7 million and is playing in 1,890 theaters.That modest figure was enough to hold off a buzzy new release, “Judas and the Black Messiah.” The galvanic look at Black Panther leader Fred Hampton scored rave reviews and opened to $2 million from 1,888 locations.
It is projected to gross $2.4 million and should end the weekend in second or third place.
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release is also debuting simultaneously on HBO Max, following in the footsteps of “Wonder Woman 1984” and “The Little Things,” a thriller with Denzel Washington.
“Judas and the Black Messiah” is expected to be a major awards season player — it’s attracting Oscars attention for stars Daniel Kaluuya,
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