Despite the release of a number of new movies in
wide and limited release, Disney•Pixar‘s
animated sequel Finding Dory won its second weekend at the box office with
$73.2 million, down about 46% from its record-setting opening
weekend. It has grossed $287 million domestically so far, making it Pixar
Animation’s fifth highest-grossing movie, as it has already surpassed the domestic
gross of Monsters University in 2013. It should surpass Up‘s $293 million this coming week and the $340
million the original Finding Nemo grossed in 2003 by next weekend.
Finding Dory added another $37 million internationally over
the weekend to bring its overseas total to $110.3 million and $397 million
globally with many territories still to get the animated sequel. (Universal
Pictures’ own animated offering The Secret Life
of Pets did open internationally
with $15.2 million in advance of its North American release on July 8.)
The widest new release of the weekend was
director Roland Emmerich’s sequel Independence
Day: Resurgence (20th Century Fox), starring Liam Hemsworth and fellow
newcomers Maika Monroe and Jessie Usher, joining returning cast Jeff Goldblum,
Bill Pullman, Brent Spiner, Judd Hirsch and Vivica A. Fox. It had been 20 years
since Emmerich’s original Independence Day was released in 1996 when it grossed over $300
million, but clearly, this sequel didn’t have the nostalgia factor going for it
like last year’s Jurassic World and reviews were less than
favorable. Resurgence opened with an estimated $4 million from Thursday previews and
$16.8 million on Friday in 4,068 theaters, and it ended up with an estimated
$41.6 million for the weekend. That’s quite a bit less than the $50.2
million the original movie opened with and that was based on 1996 movie ticket
prices.
Internationally, Independence Day:
Resurgence opened in 57 markets,
where it earned $102.1 million including $37.3 million from 6,047 screens in
China, and Korea, the UK and Mexico each bringing in around $7 million each.
$15.8 million of the movie’s global opening came from its IMAX showings, $5 million
of that coming from 385 North American IMAX screens.
Third place went to Dwayne Johnson and Kevin
Hart’s action-comedy Central
Intelligence (New Line/WB) with $18.4 million, down 48% in its second
weekend. It has grossed $69.3 million domestically so far and has earned
another $14.3 million overseas.
Blake Lively’s shark thriller The Shallows (Sony) opened in fourth place
with $16.7 million in 2,962 theaters (averaging $5,638), making it
one of the weekend’s bigger surprises since most projections had it making less
than $10 million. Surprisingly, the movie received some of the best reviews of
the weekend with 74% Fresh
reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
Filmmaker Gary Ross (The Hunger Games) teamed with Oscar-winning actor Matthew
McConaughey to tell the story of Civil War rebel Newton Knight in Free State of
Jones (STX
Entertainment), which received a rare summer release for an adult drama.
Opening in 2,815 theaters on Friday, it grossed an estimated $7.8 million
for the weekend, or $2,760 per theater.
Just behind it in sixth place by a very narrow
margin, James Wan’s horror sequel The Conjuring
2 (New Line/WB) added
another $7.7 million in its third weekend to bring its total domestic
gross to $87 million. It also brought in $21 million from 9,250 international
screens, bringing its total to $156 million so far.
The other returning sequel, Now You See Me 2 (Summit/Lionsgate) added another $5.6 million
(down 40% in its third weekend), bringing its domestic gross to $52.1 million.
The rest of the Top 10 ended up with less than
$2.5 million for the weekend.
Also opening in wide release was Nicolas (Drive) Refn’s L.A. thriller The Neon Demon (Amazon/Broad Green), starring Elle Fanning and
Jena Malone, which opened in 783 theaters on Friday, but it ended up outside
the Top 10 with just $606,000, or $774 per theater.
As far as limited releases, a lot of films that
premiered at the Sundance Film Festival were released this weekend,
including Swiss Army Man (A24), the feature film debut by the Daniels directing team, starring Paul Dano and Daniel
Radcliffe. The unconventional buddy comedy, about a man stranded on an island
and the corpse that rescues him, opened in three theaters in New York and L.A.
where it grossed $114,000, or $38,000 per theater. It’s expected to expand much
wider next Friday, July 1.
Todd Solontz’s new film Wiener-Dog (IFC Films), starring Danny DeVito, Ellen
Burstyn, Kieran Culkin, Julie Delpy and Greta Gerwig, opened
with $27,000 in two theaters while the doc Eat That
Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (Sony Pictures Classic) opened with $18,000 in
the same number of theaters.
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