2, as many typically have off in honor of the Sunday holiday.

Moviegoing is expected to be +19% on New Year’s Day today, and there will be an extra cushion in Monday, Jan. However, New Year’s Eve made more than Christmas Eve, $27.9M to $22.2M. That’s a similar decline to last weekend’s Friday-to-Christmas Eve (-26%). SUNDAY AM, NEW YEAR’S DAY: While New Year’s Eve is typically a better moviegoing day than Christmas Eve, business was still down yesterday at -27% from Friday for all movies. 2016 was the last time that Christmas fell on a Sunday, and New Year’s Day 2017 too.Īvatar 2‘s $24.4M Sunday also bests Rogue One‘s New Year’s Day gross of $16.7M.

Why is that such a big deal? Because that 2016 Star Wars prequel has been used as the comp for this mega-tentpole, which was slower out of the gate than tracking initially forecasted. By the end of today, it’s expected that Avatar 2 will pass the $440.9M 18-day total of Rogue One with $444.4M. The third weekend of the James Cameron title rises to $66.8M, +6% from its Christmas weekend, with a 4-day of $86.3M. Avatar 2‘s New Year’s Day was even bigger than that of Spider-Man: No Way Home ($23.1M) last year. That’s the third biggest New Year’s Day haul of all-time after The Force Awakens ($34.3M) and James Cameron’s first Avatar ($25.2M). MONDAY AM UPDATE: Sunday came in stronger for Avatar: The Way of Waterthan Disney expected, grossing a great $24.4M to what was thought to be $21M. Paramount’s second weekend of Babylon posted $2.6M, -28%, 4-day of $3.38M and running 11-day total of $10.79M. Tri-Star/Compelling Pictures/Black Label Media’s I Wanna Dance With Somebodywas second 3-day of $4M, -16%, and 4-day of $5.1M and running total of $15.8M. BABYLON, © Paramount Pictures /Courtesy Everett Collection

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