Thursday Box Office: ‘Sing 2’ Soars, ‘Matrix 4’ Struggles, ‘King’s Man’ Flops

Thursday Box Office: ‘Sing 2’ Soars, ‘Matrix 4’ Struggles, ‘King’s Man’ Flops

In Thursday box office updates for anything not Spider-Man 3 version 2. 0 or Venom 2, Illumination's Sing 2 continued to play as the viable counterprogramming to Spider-Man: No Way Home just as Sing did likewise to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in December 2016. The $85 million animated jukebox musical earned another $7. 5 million (-8%) on Thursday to bring its two-day domestic total to $17. 745 million. That's a better hold than Sing which dropped 12% on day two ($9. 6 million after an $11 million Wednesday) for a not-that-much-bigger $20 millon two-day cume. Since Christmas Eve/Christmas Day falls on Friday/Saturday this year (as opposed to Saturday/Sunday in 2016), it may not be an apples-to-apples comparison. The sequel (with an A+ from Cinemascore) could earn between $47 million (if it legs like Sing) and $55 million (if it legs like Little Fockers), during a year where Christmas was also on a Saturday) over the Wed-Sun frame. Either would be a win, with or without a Covid curve. It would easily position Sing 2 to pass Encanto (which debuts on Disney+ today) to become the biggest animated earner since (obviously) Frozen II in November 2019. Choke on that,