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# ‘Wish’ doesn’t come true over Thanksgiving weekend
- URL: https://www.theomnicosm.com/the-box-office-report-wish-doesnt/
- Published: 2023-11-27T12:00:58.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-19T15:57:04.000Z
- Description: The latest Disney animated film is topped by ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Napoleon’ while ‘The Marvels’ falls out of the top five.
- Author: Bill Kuchman
- Tags: Popculturology • The Box Office Report, Popculturology, Wish, Disney

Hello! Welcome to **The** **Box Office Report** for the weekend of Nov. 24-26, 2023.

## 1\. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbird & Snakes

**Weekend gross:* $28.8M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $98.4M* 
**Last weekend:* 1st* 
**Percent drop:* 35*

I was out of town for Thanksgiving week, which meant not only was I not going to the movies (I can’t be the person bringing a 23-month-old to *Napoleon*) but I didn’t have much of a chance to follow the box office news until I sat down on Sunday night (after my Buffalo Bills blew another game) to write **The Box Office Report**.

I was not expecting to see the results that I saw.

*The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes* in first! *Napoleon* beating *Wish*! *The Marvels* slipping out of the top five!

Thanksgiving weekend was won by the *Hunger Games* prequel, as it added another $28.8 million over the three-day weekend to move less than $2 million away from the $100 mark. [As I mentioned last week](https://www.theomnicosm.com/p/the-box-office-report-the-hunger), the original four *Hunger Games* movies cleared $100 million in their opening weekends, so this isn’t a huge accomplishment for a film in this franchise.

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## 2\. Napoleon

**Weekend gross:* $20.4M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $32.5M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

*Napoleon* debuted at No. 2 with $20.4 million. This was good enough for director **Ridley Scott**’s ninth biggest opening weekend, behind *Exodus: Gods and Kings* ($24.1 million) and ahead of *Kingdom of Heaven* ($19.6 million). Thanks to the extended weekend, the **Joaquin Phoenix** film added an additional $12.1 million before the three-day tracking even began.

## 3\. Wish

**Weekend gross:* $19.5M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $31.7M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

Wow. I did not see *Wish* opening at No. 3\. Way back in February, [I even looked at whether a single month ](https://www.theomnicosm.com/p/can-november-support-both-a-marvel)could accommodate a Disney movie and a Marvel movie. It turns out neither *Wish* nor *The Marvels* was a box office force.

I’d say *Wish*’s $19.5 million weekend was the worst opening frame of any recent Disney animated movie, but we did just see *Strange World* open with $12.2 million over the same weekend last year.

It’s bad, though.

Disney has fallen a long way from the $130.4 million that *Frozen* opened with in November 2019 or the $56.6 million that *Moana* opened with in November 2016 or the $56.2 million that *Ralph Breaks the Internet* opened with in 2018.

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## 4\. Trolls Band Together

**Weekend gross:* $17.5M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $64.5M* 
**Last weekend:* 2nd* 
**Percent drop:* 42*

Hey, at least *Wish* didn’t get beat by *Trolls Band Together*.

## 5\. Thanksgiving

**Weekend gross:* $7.2M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $24.2M* 
**Last weekend:* 3rd* 
**Percent drop:* 31*

Nope, we’re going to talk about *The Marvels*. A Marvel Cinematic Universe movie failed to make the top five box office slots in its third weekend in theaters. That’s ridiculous. Even *Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania* came in at No. 2 its third weekend.

At this point, *The Marvels* has grossed just $76.9 million domestically, which puts it at dead last among MCU films.

*Box office numbers via* [*The Numbers*](http://www.the-numbers.com/?ref=theomnicosm.com) *based on Sunday estimates.*

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