‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Enjoys $4.1M Anniversary Weekend In The U.S. As ‘Trolls’ Tops U.K. Box Office

To mark the 30th anniversary of Henry Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures re-released the film in U.S. cinemas, where it grossed an estimated $4.1 million, good for fifth place on the domestic charts.

Given the seasonally specific nature of the film’s narrative, The Nightmare Before Christmas has had several lucrative re-releases over the years. According to Box Office Mojo, the film has had eight domestic theatrical runs, and grossed $81.5M from them. It made $50M from its initial release in 1993.

Universal is slowly releasing Trolls Band Together in overseas markets before it brings the third film in the popular series to U.S. cinemas on November 17. Over the past weekend, it earned $14.3M from 26 markets for a two-week total of $16 million. The film’s most notable bow came in the U.K., where it made $4M and took the top spot at the box office ahead of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Taylor Swift: The Era’s Tour.

Paramount and Nickelodeon’s PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie finished fourth at both the domestic and global box offices during its fourth weekend in theaters. Mighty Movie raked in another $4.45M domestically, bringing its North American total to $56M. Overseas, it made another $11.7M, boosting its foreign tally to $92.3M. The film has now grossed $148.4M globally, a fantastic return for a movie that Associated Press reported cost only $30M to make.