‘Grinch’ makes off with $66 M at box office

LOS ANGELES (AP) — You’re a mean one – and you’re number one – Mr. Grinch.

“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” sledded past mixed reviews and made off with $66 million for Universal Pictures to top the weekend North American box office, according to studio estimates last Sunday.

Last week’s top film, the Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” dropped to second for 20th Century Fox with a $30.8-million weekend that brings its overall take to $100 million.

Illumination, the Universal-owned animators behind “The Minions” and “Despicable Me,” produced the latest interpretation of Seuss’ 1957 book that led to a 1966 TV special and first came to the big screen as a liveaction feature starring Jim Carrey in 2000.

Paramount Pictures’ war-horror hybrid “Overlord” was third in its first weekend with $10.1 million.

AP File image released by Universal Pictures shows the characters Cindy-Lou Who (left), voiced by Cameron Seely, and Grinch, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, in a scene from ‘The Grinch.’