"Coco" leads North American box office for three weekends in a row

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Disney and Pixar's animated "Coco" continued to lead the North American box office for a third weekend in a row raking an estimated 18.3 million U.S. dollars, pushing its total in North America to an impressive 135.5 million dollars through Sunday.

The animated comedy tells the story of a 12-year-old boy, Miguel, who dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz, despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events.

Combined with an estimated international cume of 254 million dollars, the film's estimated global cume stands at 389.5 million dollars to date, according to the studio figures collected by comScore.

Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment's superhero film "Justice League" was in second place with an estimated 9.59 million dollars on its fourth weekend, bringing its North American cume to 212 million dollars and global cume to 613.3 million dollars to date.

"Justice League" is based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name, consisting of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg.

In the third place, Lionsgate's heartwarming and brilliant family drama "Wonder" took in an estimated 8.45 million dollars on its fourth weekend.

Distributed by A24 in the United States and Warner Bros. Pictures in international markets, "The Disaster Artist," a biographical comedy-drama film, landed in the fourth place with an estimated 6.43 million dollars on its second weekend.

Disney and Marvel's "Thor: Ragnarok" finished fifth with an estimated 6.29 million dollars on its fifth weekend, pushing its total to 301.2 million dollars after 38 days in North American theaters. The film has earned 833.2 million dollars worldwide to date. Enditem