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Thor: Ragnarok sits smugly in fifth, still laughing at Justice League as it takes in $6.2 million, down 36% from last week, crossing the $300 million mark in the process. The MCU dunking on the DCEU just doesn’t ever get old.

The intertwining fates of Daddy’s Home 2 and Murder on the Orient Express continue again with the films in sixth and seventh place respectively, as Daddy’s Home 2 ($6 million, down 21%) once again finishes the weekend ahead of Murder on the Orient Express ($5.1 million, down 25%), but still can’t catch its total as Murder stands at $92.7 million while Daddy’s Home 2 is at $91.1 million after five weekends in theaters. Both should cross $100 million (on the same day of course) around Christmas.

The Star continues to hang on, taking eighth place with $3.6 million, down just 12% from last weekend, giving it $32.2 million in four weekends. I’m not too surprised by this as we get closer to the holidays, but it’s just about to be swept out of theaters thanks to the new releases coming in the next two weeks. Still, it only cost Sony $20 million so it’s a definite win.

A24’s other big awards film, Lady Bird, is in ninth with $3.5 million, down 18% from last weekend, and giving it $22.3 million to date. Two more weekends or so and it should surpass Moonlight ($27.8 million) as A24’s most successful film ever. Greta Gerwig’s major awards player (expect Best Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress and Original Screenplay nominations) is hoping to hang on to box office relevancy for a little while longer, where it could end up with as much as $50 million if everything breaks right. I’d also expect a rerelease in January should all the big nominations come through.

Way down in tenth place we have the weekend’s only new release, the old people comedy Just Getting Started, starring Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones and Rene Russo. With just $3.1 million on the weekend, Just Getting Started is actually a non-starter and will be quickly forgotten and unable to take advantage of the holiday movie season with this start. This was the final theatrical release by Broad Green Pictures, a distribution company we all forgot existed, mostly because they didn’t have any big hits.

The top 12 films earned $75.9 million this weekend, once again way down from last year’s $101.4 million, when Moana again led the box office with $24 million and the lone opener, Office Christmas Party, took in $23 million.

Coming next weekend we have, uh, *checks notes* The Star Wars. I’m not sure what that is, but we’ll report about it’s box office here nonetheless.

Top Ten for Weekend of December 8-10, 2017
Rank	Film	Distributor	Estimated Gross ($)	Weekly Change	Cumulative Gross ($)
1	Coco	Walt Disney	18.3	-34%	135.5
2	Justice League	Warner Bros.	0.5	-42%	212.0
3	Wonder	Lionsgate	8.4	-31%	100.2
4	The Disaster Artist	A24	6.4	+431%	8.0
5	Thor: Ragnarok	Walt Disney	6.2	-36%	301.1
6	Daddy's Home 2	Paramount	6.0	-21%	91.1
7	Murder on the Orient Express	20th Century Fox	5.1	-25%	92.7
8	The Star	Sony	3.6	-12%	32.2
9	Lady Bird	A24	3.5	-18%	22.3
10	Just Getting Started	Broad Green Pictures	3.1	New	3.1
Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations

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