Elsewhere, Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown' breaks records for Searchlight as vampire pic 'Nosferatu' bites off big business for Focus Features.

While Paramount's "Sonic 3" continues to earn the best numbers of the Sega series and Disney's "Mufasa" bounces back from a poor opening, Searchlight's "A Complete Unknown" is drawing in older audiences as "Nosferatu" is set to become one of the biggest hits ever for Focus Features.

Led by a near-tie between two second weekend animated franchise films, then bolstered by two unusual wide Christmas day specialized-distributor releases, U.S./Canada theaters saw their best post-holiday grosses since 2019.