Box Office Report: FANTASTIC BEASTS Casts a Spell with a $253 Million Global Debut

BroadwayWorld is here with your Monday box office report. From "Fantastic Beasts" to an angry "Grinch," the weekend of November 16-18 saw big yields for the pre-holiday weekend. See the full report below!

Warner Bros.'s release of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald debuted with an estimated $62 million from 4,163 theaters. This debut is about $13 million shy of the debut for the first film. Internationally, the film brought in $191 million from 79 markets. All together the film had a $253 million global debut - 38th largest of all-time.

Universal and Illumination's The Grinch came in second place with an estimated $38.2 million in its second week. The film's domestic total is now over $126 million Internationally, The Grinch added $9.4 million from 23 markets.

Fox's Bohemian Rhapsody begin week three with a -49.7% slide, bringing in an estimated $15.7 million. Its domestic total is now over $127.8 million. Internationally, the film added another $45.5 million this weekend for an overseas.

In fourth place is Paramount's Instant Family, which came in at the lower end of expectations with an estimated $14.7 million.

Rounding out the top five is Fox's Widows, finishing with an estimated $12.3 million from 2,803 locations. The film came into the weekend as the best reviewed feature among new releases and after enjoying a strong run on the festival circuit, but audiences just didn't turn out.

Focus expanded the release of Boy Erased into 409 locations, where it earned an estimated $1.28 million with the studio planning on adding around another one hundred theaters for Thanksgiving weekend.

Aviron's expansion of A Private War into 865 locations, only brought in an estimated $725,000.

In limited release, CBS Films's At Eternity's Gate delivered an estimated $92,000 from four locations for a chart topping, $23,000 per theater average. The film will expand into select theaters in twelve additional cities beginning this coming Wednesday.

Universal also began the platform release of Participant and DreamWorks's Green Book, which delivered an estimated $313,000 from 25 locations.

China Lion's A Cool Fish debuted in 15 theaters with an estimated $65,000.

See a full report at Box Office Mojo.

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