Thanksgiving Box Office

It appears that the House of Mouse continues to dominate with two out of the top three grossing movies ... to nobody's surprise.

Four Days of Box Office

1) Frozen 2 -- 4,440 -- $126.3M -- $290.1M

2) Knives Out -- 3,391 -- $42.4M -- $42.4M (1st weekend)

3) Ford V Ferrari -- 3,585 (+57) -- $19.8M -- $81.8M

4) Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood -- 3,325 (+90) -- $18.3M -- $35.3M

5) Queen & Slim -- 1,690 -- $14.9M -- $14.9M (1st weekend)

6) 21 Bridges -- 2,665 -- $7.7M -- $19.2M

7) Midway -- 2,377 (-250) -- $5.96M -- $50.4M

7) Playing With Fire -- 2,679 (-81) -- $5.96M -- $39.1M

9) Joker -- 1,146 (-264) -- $2.8M -- $330.5M

9) Last Christmas -- 1,852 (-559) -- $2.8M -- $31.6M

On the animated front, there is the new Frozen, then there are the other animated features, way off in the distance and beyond a snowy hill:

Worldwide Grosses

Frozen 2 -- $739 million

Abominable -- $175.3 million

Addams Family --$175.7 million

What's interesting are the constancies over time. For years, Disney was the only animation studio that was successful with cartoon features. Other corporate entities would, every once in a while, have some mild success. But the house of Walt was the place that did multiple features in the forites ... fifties ... sixties ... seventies (etc.)

So in a strange way, we're back where we began. There is Disney, and then there is the lacklustre competition. History does indeed rhyme.