NEW YORK — On a wintry weekend, Disney’s “Frozen” retook the box-office top spot with $20.7 million, freezing out the horror spinoff “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones.”

Paramount’s “The Marked Ones” debuted in second place with $18.2 million, a total that includes Thursday night screenings, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film is a stand-alone story spun off from the lucrative, low-budget horror franchise “Paranormal Activity,” the fifth of which will be released in October.

But it wasn’t able to overcome Disney’s animated “Frozen,” which has been a hit for family audiences for the last seven weeks. It has now surpassed $600 million worldwide, making it the second highest grossing Disney Animation release, behind “The Lion King.” It will soon pass that film’s $312 million domestic haul, too.

It’s extremely rare for a film to lead the box office in its seventh weekend, a feat accomplished by the likes of “Avatar” and, to go further back, “Legends of the Fall.” It’s rarer still for a film to retake the box-office lead so late in its theatrical run. The last movie to do so was Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” in 2004, according to box-office tracker Rentrak.

1. “Frozen,” $20.7 million ($52 million international).

2. “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones,” $18.2 million ($16.2 million international).

3. “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” $16.3 million ($58 million international).

4. “The Wolf of Wall Street,” $13.4 million ($6.3 million international).

5. “American Hustle,” $13.2 million ($6.8 million international).

6. “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” $11.1 million.

7. “Saving Mr. Banks,” $9.1 million.

8. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” $8.2 million ($31.5 million international).

9. “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” $7.4 million ($9.1 million international).

10. “Grudge Match,” $5.4 million.