Cars 3 Beats Wonder Woman
"Wonder Woman" fell to second place in its third weekend in theaters, but it's still doing the heavy lifting for the otherwise lackluster summer box office. While many worn out franchises and franchise hopefuls continue to struggle to find a significant North American audience, smaller films such as the Tupac biopic "All Eyez on Me" and the shark thriller "47 Meters Down" were able to break through the clutter and make a splash this weekend.
As expected, the third installment in Disney and Pixar's $1 billion "Cars" franchise easily took the top spot, but its estimated $53.5 million in earnings told a more complicated tale.
"Cars 3" had the worst opening in the series' history -- "Cars" opened to $60.1 million and "Cars 2" to $66.1 million -- and it was one of the lowest debut totals for the Pixar brand. It was also a disappointment compared with the top films over this weekend in 2015 and 2016, noted comScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian.
A year ago, Pixar's "Finding Dory" debuted with $135.1 million. In 2015, Jurassic World" raked in $106.6 million in its second weekend.
"That kind of tells you the state of the industry," Dergarabedian said.
The G-rated "Cars 3" got an "A" CinemaScore and generally positive reviews, but it will have to contend with "Despicable Me 3" which opens in two weeks.
"Wonder Woman" was knocked down to second place with $40.8 million, bringing its domestic total to $274.6 million, while holdover "The Mummy" slid to fourth place in weekend two with $13.9 million.
Wonder Woman only dropped 30% from last week. That's amazing.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter loved 'Wonder Woman.' She went to see it
ReplyDeletetwice -- by herself.
I loved it!
ReplyDeleteSee, us women can't have anything for long. Men have to keep us down. There was probably some underhanded marketing tactics are to blame for knocking WW off the top spot..
ReplyDeleteI would rather go to a hanging than see Wonder Woman or any other super hero movie. The same goes for any animated movie or remake.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I said too, then when I started hearing how great it was from friends, I went. They were right...
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