Disney Animation’s Ralph Breaks the Internet topped the box office for the second weekend in a row, dominating the weekend after Thanksgiving, one of Hollywood’s few remaining fallow periods.  Meanwhile Illumination Entertainment’s Grinch moved back into second place, giving cartoons the top two spots on the chart.  Overall the weekend was almost 9% ahead of the same frame last year when Pixar’s Coco held on to the top spot for the second weekend in a row with over $27 million.

Disney’s second Wreck-It Ralph feature has now earned almost $120 million in 12 days, pretty much exactly like the totals amassed by the studio’s Moana and Coco, both of which opened over Thanksgiving, but it is running about 20% ahead of the original 2012 Wreck-It Ralph (not adjusting for inflation).  So far Ralph Breaks the Internet has earned an additional $87.7 million overseas, giving it a current worldwide total of $207 million.

Moving back into second place in its fourth weekend of release, Illumination Entertainment’s Dr. Suess’s The Grinch dropped just 41.7% as it earned $17.7 million to drive its domestic cumulative over the $200 million mark, making it the tenth highest-grossing film of 2018 so far and the tenth to surpass the $200 million mark (2017 and 2016 each ended up with 13 films over $200 million here in North America).  This new animated Grinch still has 23 days before the calendar will make it thematically irrelevant.

The boxing film Creed II, which is the latest iteration of the Rocky franchise, dropped 53% in its second weekend, earning $16.8 million and pushing its domestic total to $81 million, which is about $17 million more than the original Creed had earned at this point in 2015.

The J.K. Rowling-penned Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald tumbled nearly 62% in its third frame as it earned $11.2 million to bring its domestic total to $134.3 million, roughly $50 million behind the first Fantastic Beasts film, which debuted back in 2016.  Grindelwald is faltering in China as well, but it is doing better than the original in many other foreign markets, and has earned $385.3 million overseas for a worldwide total of $519.6 million.  Though Grindelwald will earn over $600 million, its excessive cost (circa $200 million) will mean that it won’t make a lot of money.  Warner Bros still has 3 more Fantastic Beasts films planned, and would be well advised to rein in the costs in view of the franchise’s declining performance in the world’s top two markets.

Also doing well overseas is Bryan Singer’s Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, which was tallied over $375 million overseas, to go along with $165 million here in North America.  While Bohemian Rhapsody might not catch A Star Is Born ($193.8 million) in the domestic market, it is a much bigger hit internationally.

This week’s lone new release, the exorcism saga The Possession of Hannah Grace, which could manage only a 17% positive rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and a lousy “C-“ CinemaScore from audiences, debuted at #7 with an estimated $6.5 million.  With a cost under $8 million, Hannah Grace won’t lose money, but it sure doesn’t look like any kind of low budget “horror hit.”

One interesting tidbit from overseas—Chinese audiences shunned Crazy Rich Asians, which absolutely “bombed” in the Middle Kingdom, earning just over a million dollars in its debut weekend.

Making some noise in the limited release art house circuit is Yorgos Lanthimos’ “period” film The Favourite, which averaged $32,500 from 34 venues.

Next weekend is also traditionally a fallow period for Hollywood releases, though Universal is resurrecting Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List for a 25th Anniversary revival in over 1,000 venues, while Mary, Queen of Scots, Ben Is Back, and Vox Lux open in limited release.