It was a really Merry Christmas for Warner Bros. Discovery.

With $18.15 million in field workplace receipts, the studio’s latest movie “The Colour Purple” had the very best Christmas Day opening since 2009 and the second-largest Christmas Day opening of all time.

The movie outpaced 2012’s “Les Misérables,” which snagged $18.1 million on its Christmas debut, and fell simply wanting the 2009 vacation opening of “Sherlock Holmes” at $24.6 million, based on knowledge from Comscore.

Including ticket gross sales from “Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom” and “Wonka,” Warner Bros. Discovery held the highest three spots on the field workplace over the vacation.

Warner Bros.’ assortment of December releases runs the spectrum of genres and demographics, providing a various slate of leisure for nearly each moviegoing viewers.

“The lineup … displays a superbly orchestrated staggered launch of those titles over the course [of] the all-important vacation body, and the outcomes are most spectacular,” stated Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore.

“The Colour Purple,” whose producers embody Oprah and Steven Spielberg, relies on the Broadway musical adaptation of the book-turned-movie of the identical title.

The movie caters to an older viewers, who’ve been reluctant to return to cinemas within the wake of the pandemic.