Though there isn't an "Avatar"-level smash hit at the holiday box office this year, there are several films that are getting good news on the charts in this final weekend of 2024 from second weekend tentpoles like Paramount's "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" and Disney's "Mufasa" to Focus and Searchlight's specialty alternatives "Nosferatu" and "A Complete Unknown.

It’s still raging at the box office with a $424.6M running cume!) and Moana 2 ($17.8M 3-day, 5-day $27.9M) is fueling a 3-day weekend of $161M, +43% over the near New Year’s Eve weekend of last year,

The Lion King" is reigning over the holiday box office. The family film, which is a prequel to “The Lion King” (both the 1994 animated classic and the less canonical 2019 photorealistic remake), earned $12 million on Thursday.