Coraline 15 th Anniversary notched a nice no. 5 at the domestic box office with $8.63 million for the three-day weekend on 1,603 screens.
The cume of $11.6 million including Thursday broke its previous record for Fathom Events. Last year, the stop-motion animated feature by Henry Selick became the distributor’s highest-grossing classic with $7m+ at the box office over four days.
Coraline debuted in 2009 with an opening weekend gross of $16.8 million heading to $75.3 million domestically and $127 million globally.
The PG-rated film based on the popular 2002 book by Neil Gaiman, was the first to be originally filmed in 3-D – with CG effects. Dakota Fanning voices a young girl named Coraline, who walks through a secret door in her new house and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life — only much better.
But when this wondrously off-kilter, fantastical adventure turns dangerous and her counterfeit parents, including Other Mother (Teri Hatcher) try to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home. In theaters through Aug 22, available in 3D and 2D. Rounding out the top 10, Prathyangira Cinemas’ Hindi supernatural comedy horror Stree 2 by Amar Kaushik saw a $2.
18 million three-day weekend at 666 locations with a $2.57 million cume including Thursday. The fifth installment in the Maddock Supernatural Universe and sequel to Stree (2018) was .