SUNDAY AM Writethru: The 50th weekend of the year is ringing up $80M per ComScore, off -13% from a year ago; but that’s only because last year there were two wide-entries, ironically failed fanboy titles, in Sony’s dud Kraven the Hunter ($11M) and New Line’s misfire Lord of the Rings : The War of the Rohirrim ($4.5M). If you subtract those two movies, you essentially had the potency of carryovers ( Moana 2 was No. 1 with $26.4M and Wicked No. 2 with $22.6M), and this weekend those are Disney’s third frame of Zootopia 2 with $26.3M , -39%, and Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 with $19.5M , -70%.

The greater glory for Zootopia 2 is offshore with an overall global haul of $1.13 billion making it officially the No. 1 MPA global release of the year

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