disney and marvel’s black panther wakanda forever has again led the north american box office industry watcher exhibitor relations reported sunday but the films estimated weekend take of just 111 million reflected a deep slump in moviegoing hollywood has suffered from a dearth of big new films and the growing popularity of home streaming services this weekends top 12 films grossed under 35 million one of the years worst totals analysts said in its five weeks out black panther wakanda forever has now taken in a domestic total of 4098 million but that is far from the 7004 million grossed by the original 2018 film and wakanda is expected to be knocked off its reigning perch next weekend the release december 16 of 20th centurys much anticipated avatar the way of water cant come soon enough said boxofficemojocom until then the box office is slowing to a crawl in second place this weekend was universals action comedy violent night at 87 million for the fridaythroughsaturday period david harbour stars as a sledgehammerwielding santa who takes on some bad guys trying to ruin one familys christmas disneys computeranimated scifi film strange world again placed third with ticket sales of 36 million searchlights horrorcomedy the menu starring ralph fiennes held at fourth place taking in 27 million and in fifth was sonys devotion about the friendship of two us fighter pilots during the korean war at 2 million one weekend bright spot said varietycom was a24s the whale which in limited release took in 360000 from just six theaters the best perscreen average this year brendan fraser in a prosthetic suit stars as a 600pound 270kilogram man who tries to reconnect with his daughter rounding out the top 10 were