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Posted June 27, 2016 by Seth Paul in News
 
 

Box Office Weekend: Finding Dory Tops Again


The latest Disney Pixar release is doing just swimmingly (at least, in the United States), as Finding Dory grows ever closer to a $300 million domestic haul with an estimated $73.2 million at the box office this past weekend. Its second week totals overshadowed the release of Independence Day: Resurgence. The panned sequel to the 1996 megahit opened with an estimated $41.6 million, but at a $165 million budget has some ways to go to be Finding Dory Postersuccessful…and even then, not likely to top the $817.4 million the original brought in twenty years ago. In the meantime, the worldwide haul for Central Intelligence does seem likely to be profitable, as the well-regarded comedy brought in an estimated $18.4 million for its second week.

Shark thriller The Shallows did well with critics, and it made a strong bid against its $17 million budget with an opening weekend estimate of $16.7 million. However, Free State of Jones failed to find much purchase even with a fifth-place finish, with an estimated $7.8 million so far against $50 million in costs. The Conjuring 2, with an estimated $7.7 million, has done very good business as it enters its third week, with $86.9 million in domestic gross alone on a $40 million budget.

In the final four spots are critical flops, but only one that could be considered successful. Now You See Me 2 picked up an estimated $5.7 million for $52.1 million in domestic earnings against an unreported budget, while X-Men Apocalypse and an estimated $2.5 million may look disappointing domestically but is still the third highest-grossing film in the series worldwide. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, with an estimated $2.4 million, is not doing well anywhere, having only made $153.9 million worldwide on a $135 million budget. Neither is tenth-place finisher Alice Through the Looking Glass, whose estimated $2.1 million adds up to only $249.1 million worldwide…$90 million less than the first film made in domestic gross alone.

Weekend Box Office (June 24th – June 26th)

  1. Finding Dory…$73.2 million
  2. Independence Day: Resurgence…$41.6 million
  3. Central Intelligence…$18.4 million
  4. The Shallows…$16.7 million
  5. Free State of Jones…$7.8 million
  6. The Conjuring 2…$7.7 million
  7. Now You See Me 2…$5.7 million
  8. X-Men: Apocalypse…$2.5 million
  9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows…$2.4 million
  10. Alice Through the Looking Glass…$2.1 million
Seth Paul

Seth Paul

When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."