Weekend Box Office: December 24-26, 2021
by Emily Nagle
The long Christmas weekend was the second highest-grossing box office weekend for this month. Continuing from last weekend, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has continued to dominate ticket sales, and the film has now made $1.08 billion worldwide. With so many new films across a wide variety of genres coming out in time for the holiday weekend, the rest of the films in the top 5 were new releases.
Top 5 Highest Grossing Films for December 24-26, 2021:
5. American Underdog
4. The King’s Man
3. The Matrix Resurrections
2. Sing 2
1. Spider-Man: No Way Home
Universal’s “Sing 2” was the second highest-grossing film for the weekend, bringing in $22.3 million (as well as a total domestic gross of $46.9 million). Starring Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey, and Bobby Canavale as well as popular musicians including Pharrell Williams, Bono, and Halsey, this sequel to the 2016 Illumination film follows koala Buster Moon (McConaughey) and his friends as they try to convince elusive rockstar Clay Calloway (Bono) to join them for the opening of an upcoming show. While the original film received generally positive reviews and thrived financially, “Sing 2” has been met with mixed reviews from critics, who have argued that the sequel isn’t much different from the first movie, as it’s just another simple movie about cartoon animals singing popular songs.
Warner Bros.’ “The Matrix Resurrections” is available both on HBO Max and in theaters, and seems to be doing fairly well in the box office so far. It raked in $12 million over the weekend, and has grossed a total of $22.5 million in the United States since its release on December 22. The final installment in “The Matrix” film series is the first in 18 years, and follows video game developer Neo (Keanu Reeves) as he must once again escape from the Matrix and figure out his true reality. In addition to Reeves, the cast includes actors from the previous Matrix films like Jada Pinkett Smith, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Lambert Wilson, but also brings in new talent, including Neil Patrick Harris, Jonathan Groff, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas.