The weekend after Thanksgiving is “traditionally” one in which no major new titles are rolled into theaters, the box office falls way off because filmgoers did all their movie watching over the holidays.

Yadda yadda yadda…

Not this year. Lots of titles were rolled out, a couple with real promise, and the result is a big weekend when most years feel like filmgoers are just taking a break.

Beyonce’s “Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce,” a concert doc that includes lots of “How we did this tour” with Queen Bey DIRECTING and narrating, did a healthy $5 million in Thursday previews and big business Friday and is opening over $20 million, maybe closer to $21, according to Deadline.com.

To address the elephant in the room, that’s one fourth what “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” pulled in when it opened. Beyonce’s audience is older, somewhat more diverse and may take a week or two extra to get to it. Swift’s fans are more fanatical and made that film one of the year’s bigger hits — taking in just under $180 million.

Even taking into account the post Thanksgiving box office pause, Taylor Swift’s plainly more popular, although I am sure Kanye has an opinion on that.

Both films are self-distributed by the artists through AMC Cinemas, and both ladies will make big bank in the end. They’ve connected and conferred on their projects and agreed — I understand — on the timing of these releases, and made the same deal with AMC.

As with Swift’s film, I ducked into Beyonce’s on opening night just to ascertain if it needed to be reviewed.

Neither reinvents the concert documentary or even advances the genre, both are all about the spectacle of their presenting their hits on a huge stage, both are for fans. Critics don’t matter, and panning either film would just be baiting them. Who needs it? Enjoy.

“Renaissance” dethrones “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” which may clear another $14.5 on its third weekend.

A much-praised (over-praised) “Godzilla” installment, “Godzilla Minus One” is doing a decent but underwhelming $11 million, money in the bank for Toho Studios, which has made many killings off the Beast from Below since 1954, and which has already earned $20 million off this film in Japan.

The Indian actioner “Animal” is making big noise on a limited number of screens, maybe $7 million by midnight Monday. I will try to get to that next week. “RRR” whetted the public’s appetite for action fare from the Subcontinent.

“Trolls the Sequel” is beating Disney’s “Wish,” $7.6 to $7.3. Wakeup call for the Mouse?

“Wish” is bombing, another $7+ million means it is plunging over 65% on its second weekend. Disney doesn’t need to respond to conservatives who don’t go to the movies claiming credit for killing a film by Ron DeSantis’ whipping boy company. That isn’t what’s happening. Disney does need to rethink its process of putting projects into production, story conferences, script acquisition, etc. This felt like focus-grouped “product” and no kid needs to see it or buy the Happy Meal that may or may not be part of its promotion.

“Napoleon” is adding another $7 million+ on a “traditionally slow” weekend. Ridley Scott’s epic might stick around until Christmas, but maybe not. That’s a very stepp (65% or so) falloff from opening weekend.

I will have to get to Angel Studios’ faith-based (Faith-adjacent?) “The Shift” later this weekend, as it’s earning $5 million in wide release. Neil McDonagh stars.

John Woo’s return to Hollywood action films “Silent Night” did decent opening night business, but won’t light up the box office overall, a $2-3 million is projected for it. Lionsgate didn’t make enough of an effort to get the word out, held off on previewing it for critics and I still saw it with a decent-sized audience Thursday night.

It’s not bad, not all that either. But for all you folks wetting your Underoos over the Big Fight in Netflix’s Fincher film, “The Killing,” check out how the master stages, shoots and directs his actors in fight-to-the-death brawls. John Woo is almost without peer in this regard, and even if this one doesn’t get me back on his Christmas card mailing list (totally a thing, I got years of them from him in the ’90s), aficionados will want to check it out.

As always, I will update these figures as the weekend progresses and more data comes in.