As the Martin Luther King holiday weekend kicked off,\u00a0The Post\u00a0<\/em><\/a>collected $5.9 million, including\u00a0775,000 from its Thursday night showings, as it expands nationwide into 2,819 theaters, where it should gross about $21 million for the four-day weekend.<\/p>\n The Steven Spielberg-directed drama recounts how\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl\u00a0Streep)\u00a0and editor Ben\u00a0Bradlee\u00a0(Tom Hanks) joined forces to defy the government and publish the Pentagon Papers. Since opening Dec. 22 in just a handful of theaters, the $50 million film, from Amblin Entertainment and Participant Media, which opened Dec. 22, had collected $4.2 million in its limited release.<\/p>\n But\u00a0The Post’<\/em>s solid showing won’t be enough to dislodge Sony\u2019s\u00a0Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle<\/em><\/a>\u00a0from the top spot for the weekend. Directed by Jake Kasdan, the PG-13-rated adventure comedy stars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan\u00a0as the adult avatars of the magical game, based on\u00a0Chris Van Allsburg’s 1981 children’s book and first played onscreen in the 1995 movie.\u00a0Last weekend<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 its third \u2014 the pic demonstrated real staying power as it took in $37.2 million and, after pulling in around $6.2 million Friday, it now looks headed for a four-day gross of $29-30 million.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Disney’s\u00a0Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/em><\/a>, which is entering its fifth weekend, gave way to some of the newcomers, as it notched $2.7 million for the day, bringing its cumulative domestic gross through Friday to nearly $583 million.<\/p>\n Lionsgate’s\u00a0The Commuter<\/em><\/a>\u00a0took in $4.5 million on Friday, including $700,000 from its Thursday preview screenings. Directed by\u00a0Jaume\u00a0Collet-Serra (The Shallows<\/em>),\u00a0the PG-13-rated action movie stars Liam\u00a0Neeson\u00a0as a businessman who gets caught up in a frenzied criminal conspiracy when he meets a stranger (Vera\u00a0Farmiga) on a train. The first entry in a new, long-term partnership between\u00a0Lionsgate\u00a0and\u00a0StudioCanal,\u00a0The Commuter<\/em>\u00a0opens in around 2,892 locations, including select Imax theaters, and appears headed to about $15 million for the four days.<\/p>\n