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Box Office: January 12-14, 2018: JUMANJI 2, THE POST, THE COMMUTER

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Box Office: January 12-14, 2018

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was Number One at the box office over the weekend for the second week in a row with $27 Million for $283.1 Million so far.

The Post was Second with $18.6 Million. The Commuter premiered in Third Place with $13.4 Million. Insidious: The Last Key was Fourth with $12.1 Million. The Greatest Showman was Fifth with $11.8 Million. Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Paddington 2, Proud Mary, Pitch Perfect 3, Darkest Hour rounded out the top ten respectively.

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The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

The Commuter is a 2018 action thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by Byron Willinger, Philip de Blasi, and Ryan Engle. The film stars Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Elizabeth McGovern, and Sam Neill, and follows a man who is unwittingly recruited into a murder conspiracy after meeting a mysterious woman while on his daily train commute.

Paddington 2 is a 2017 live-action/CGI animated comedy film directed by Paul King and written by King and Simon Farnaby. Based on the stories of the character Paddington Bear created by Michael Bond, it is the sequel to the 2014 film Paddington and is produced by Heyday Films and StudioCanal. The film stars Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington, with Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, and Hugh Grant in live-action roles.

Proud Mary is a 2018 American action thriller film directed by Babak Najafi, from a screenplay written by John S. Newman and Christian Swegal. The film stars Taraji P. Henson, Billy Brown, Danny Glover, Neal McDonough, Xander Berkeley, and Margaret Avery, and follows an assassin who must look after a young teen boy after a hit job goes wrong.

Next week sees the release of: 12 Strong, Den of Thieves, Forever My Girl, and a plethora of other mainstream and independent films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly Now In-Theater column. A preview: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle will be Number One at the box office for the third week in a row.

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Rollo Tomasi

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, TV show, short film, Blu-ray, and 4K-Ultra reviews. His reviews are published in IMDb's External Reviews and in Google News. Previously you could find his work at Empire Movies, Blogcritics, and AltFilmGuide. Now you can find his work at FilmBook.
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