Coco Wins the Weekend With $26.1M

The Pixar film tops the box office for the second week in a row

By Newser Editors and Wire Services

Posted Dec 3, 2017 12:40 PM CST

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Coco Is No. 1 for Second Week — In this image released by Disney-Pixar, character Hector, voiced by Gael Garcia Bernal, left, and Miguel, voiced by Anthony Gonzalez, appear in a scene from the animated film, "Coco." (Disney-Pixar via AP)

Pixar's Coco is the top film at the box office for the second straight week, the AP reports. According to estimates Sunday, Coco led all films with $26.1 million. The acclaimed animated film has already racked up a global total of $280 million.

With no major wide releases in the post-Thanksgiving week, Justice League also held in second place with $16.6 million in its third weekend. The family film hit Wonder stayed in third with $12.5 million. Among new releases, the most successful was James Franco's The Disaster Artist. The comedy about the making of the cult film The Room opened with $1.2 million on 19 screens, good for a per-screen average of $64,254.

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