Now ranking as Dwayne Johnson's highest-grossing domestic hit, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle took advantage of a quiet Super Bowl weekend and only one underperforming new challenger to reclaim the top spot in the US box office charts. The adventure movie made $11 million, according to studio estimates.
With $352.6 million in its American bank and more than $855 globally, the film remains a big success, and a welcome winner for Sony. Last week's brief champ, Maze Runner: The Death Cure slipped to second with $10.2 million.
Based-on-truth ghost story Winchester (known here by the clunkier moniker Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built) could only manage a third place launch, earning $9.2 million and seeming unlikely to be another February horror success story. The Greatest Showman kept its grip on fourth place, taking in $7.8 million, while Hostiles fell from third to fifth, rounding out the top five on $5.5 million.
The Post was also down, slipping one place to sixth and earning $5.2 million, while 12 Strong was seventh on $4.7 million. Crime drama Den Of Thieves was down to eighth and $4.6 million, while The Shape Of Water dipped one place to ninth via $4.3 million. And finally, at 10th, we find Paddington 2, which took in $3.1 million.
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