‘Jumanji’ again tops box office

The heir to “Titanic” is … “Jumanji: Welcome the Jungle”?

For the first time since James Cameron’s 1998 disaster epic, a December release has topped the weekend box office in February. Seven weeks after first opening in theaters, “Jumanji” again took the top spot at the North American box office with $10.9 million in ticket sales, according to studio figures released Monday.

On a sluggish Super Bowl weekend, that was good enough to surpass last week’s No. 1 film, “Maze Runner: The Death Cure.” The third installment in the young adult trilogy slid 58 percent in its second week with $10.5 million in ticket sales.

It’s the fourth weekend out of seven in which the “Jumanji” reboot, starring Dwayne Johnson and

Kevin Hart, has led all films domestically. It has carved an unlikely path en route to its record-setting run. Met with little initial fanfare, “Jumanji” played second fiddle for its first two weeks of release to “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”

But riding good word of mouth and relatively little family-film competition, “Jumanji” has become one of Sony’s biggest hits ever, ranking behind only its “Spider-man” films. It has grossed $352.6 million in the U.S. and Canada.

The Helen Mirren-led horror film “Winchester” was the sole new wide release on a weekend that Hollywood typically cedes to football. The poorly reviewed film, about the true-life tale of the 19thcentury heiress Sarah Winchester, opened in third place with $9.3 million.

Total ticket sales were

$92 million, according to comscore, a sum that falls behind recent Super Bowl weekends but above the lowest grossing ever.