The month of November showed no signs of slowing down in its second weekend, as Universal’s The Grinch got off to a solid start with $66 million. Meanwhile, Bohemian Rhapsody posted a very impressive second weekend, while the two new counterprogramming titles – Overlord and The Girl in the Spider’s Web – failed to impress.

The Grinch opened with an estimated $66 million this weekend, which is below average for an Illumination title, but is above average for an animated November release. Believe it or not, this is the third highest start for an animated film released in November, behind only Frozen and The Incredibles. Not to mention, the film was produced for just $75 million, meaning it should still be a big win for Universal. The real question here is whether or not it can hold until Christmas and leg it out close to $240 million, or whether it fizzles out due to competition from the upcoming Ralph Breaks The Internet. The 47% Saturday jump and A- Cinemascore would seemingly imply the former, but only time will tell.

Bohemian Rhapsody was no slouch in second, as the music drama dipped an impressive 40% for a second weekend of $30.8 million, raising its 10 day total just past the century mark. Throw in overseas results that are pushing the pic towards $300 million worldwide, and this is a major win for Fox.

Two adult oriented genre pics opened this weekend, and neither posted impressive results. Overlord was technically the winner, though not by much; the $38 million World War II thriller opened to a measly $10.1 million from 2,859 locations including IMAX and Dolby theaters. This weak start can be attributed to the difficulty of selling a mashup title such as this, especially with its extreme gore and muddled advertising. Paramount originally set the title for October 26th, which would’ve been a much less busy marketplace, yet would’ve faced tough competition from Halloween. From here, it seems unlikely that the film makes it too far past $25 million.

Sony’s hopes at turning the Dragon Tattoo series into a franchise were dashed for a second time, as the reboot The Girl in the Spider’s Web opened to a terrible $8 million from 2,929 locations, for a per theater average of just $2,736. The $43 million action title seemed like an attempt to make the story more accessible to mainstream audiences, compared to the brutal and gritty take that David Fincher directed back in 2011. However, that film came out at a time when the book series was still immensely popular, while Spider’s Web had very little to go off of. In fact, this opening was just $5,000 ahead of A Star Is Born in its sixth weekend, and those numbers could very easily change when the finals are posted on Monday.

Disney executives will likely be cracking open some Christmas spirits to forget about The Nutcracker, which fell an awful 53% in its second weekend for a ten day total of just $35 million.

The biggest international story of the weekend was Venom‘s China debut, where the Sony superhero title opened to a massive $111 million. This is already shaping up to be one of the country’s biggest comic book titles, as it continues to close in on $700 million worldwide.

Moving into the specialty market, Boy Erased and Can You Ever Forgive Me? had decent expansions with $1.4 million and $725K respectively, while Beautiful Boy expanded into 776 locations, good enough for a 4% jump compared to last weekend.