Box-Office Weekend: Spider-Man Repeats on Top!
This week’s box-office weekend was essentially a repeat of last week, at least for the first two spots, as both Sony’s Spider-Man: Far from Home and Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 held firm in the first and second spots of the top ten respectively. Spider-Man: Far from Home added $45.3 million over the weekend to bring its two-week domestic total to $274.5 million. Meanwhile, Toy Story 4 tossed another $20.7 million into its coffers to give the animated film a domestic four-week tally of $346.4 million.
Two new films to the top ten finished in third and fourth place respectively. The horror film Crawl took in $12 million, laying claim to third place while the comedy Stuber earned $8 million and the bragging rights to fourth place in this week’s top ten. In its third week of release, the Beatles fable Yesterday dropped from third to fifth place with $6.8 million over the weekend, giving the film a three-week total of $48.3 million.
Dropping from fifth to sixth was Disney’s live-action retelling of Aladdin, which took in $5.9 million and drove its eight-week total to $331.5 million. Although the Disney remake did manage to leap over Annabelle Comes Home, which dropped hard from fourth to seventh place with a $5.6 million showing over the weekend, giving the horror sequel a three-week tally of $60.8 million. In its second week of release, Midsommar, fell from sixth to eighth place with $3.6 million, giving the film a two-week total of $18.4 million.
Closing out this week’s top ten, The Secret Life of Pets 2 dropped from the seventh to the ninth spot with $3.1 million over the weekend. This gives the family film a six-week total of $147.1 million. Meanwhile, Men in Black: International dropped from eight to tenth place with $2.2 this weekend, giving the science fiction sequel a disappointing five-week total of $76.5 million.
Finally, Avengers: Endgame leaves the top ten on its second go around in theaters but did manage to add approximately $476,000 to bring its domestic total to $851.2 million as well as up its worldwide cumulative total to $2.78 billion. It remans just behind Avatar [2009] ($2.788 billion) in worldwide returns, but still trails Star Wars: The Force Awakens [2015] ($936.7 million) in domestic returns. The Elton John biopic Rocketman also left the orbit of the top ten this weekend, but it departed with a seven-week domestic total of $91.9 million.
Next weekend will see the release of the new live-action version of Disney’s The Lion King, which will undoubtedly own the weekend box office, but holding off the web-slinging Spider-Man in the long run could prove difficult for Simba and his cohorts.
Weekend Box-Office (July 12th – July 14th)
- Spider-Man: Far from Home…$45.3 Million
- Toy Story 4…$20.7 Million
- Crawl…$12 Million
- Stuber…$8 Million
- Yesterday…$6.8 Million
- Aladdin…$5.9 Million
- Annabelle Comes Home…$5.6 Million
- Midsommar…$3.6 Million
- The Secret Life of Pets 2…$3.1 Million
- Men in Black: International…$2.2 Million
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