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Queen B hits the high note: examining Renaissance and Godzilla

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Another concert film has saved what is usually a difficult week of the year at the box office. Renaissance: a film by Beyoncé achieved the best opening December weekend domestic box office since 2003’s The Last Samurai. With another surprise of Godzilla Minus One, a Japanese-language kaiju film, breaking the domestic top 3, we take a closer look at the audiences and box office roundups for the week’s top titles on Behind the Screens.


Topics and times:

  • Renaissance: a film by Beyoncé box office overview - 0:29
  • Renaissance audience analysis - 2:51
  • Concert film comparison - 7:09
  • Godzilla Minus One box office overview - 8:40
  • Godzilla Minus One audience analysis - 9:50
  • Box office roundup - 14:11
  • Next week - 17:45


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    Box Office Overview:

    • Renaissance: a film by Beyoncé topped the box office in its debut with $21M from 2,539 screens.
    • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes dropped to second position at the domestic box office with $14.5M added domestically, bringing its worldwide total to $243.9M.
    • Godzilla Minus One opened to $11M domestically and a further $23M internationally for a worldwide total of $34M.
    • Trolls Band Together grossed a further $7.6M domestically and sits at a $160.6M worldwide total.
    • Wish saw an addition of $7.4M domestically in its second week, down 62% from its first week. Its worldwide total now sits at $81.6M.
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