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Posted July 11, 2016 by Seth Paul in News
 
 

Box Office Weekend: Life of Pets Exposed


The studio that brought you Minions knocked the House of Mouse from atop the box office, as The Secret Life of Pets took the top spot with a strong showing, bringing in an estimated $103.2 million domestically. In fact, Finding Dory found itself in tight competition with the critically panned The Legend of Tarzan. In second place with an estimated $20.6 million, The Legend of Tarzan is still nowhere near breaking even on its costs, but is still showing The Secret Life of Pets Postersigns of life, while Finding Dory chased its heels with an estimated $20.4 million (but has little to worry about financially, with $642.8 million earned worldwide).

Zac Efron found little help from critics with Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, but the R-rated comedy still pulled an estimated $16.6 million…though it has some ways to go to make back its $33 million costs. The Purge: Election Year (estimated $11.7 million), on the other hand, is doing well enough that it could pass the previous films in the franchise in terms of domestic gross, already ahead of the pace of the second (and highest-earning) film in the series. Regardless, it is a financial winner with $58.1 million earned domestically against a $10 million budget…as is Central Intelligence (estimated $8.1 million), which has passed the $108.3 million mark and continues to push ahead.

Independence Day: Resurgence (estimated $7.7 million) remains a distant gleam from the powerhouse performance of the original; with a few more weekends in the top ten, it might be able to break even on its production costs. Good reviews, in the meantime, are not enough to salvage The BFG; the latest motion capture effort from Spielberg is doing well with critics, but sinking financially, with an estimated $7.6 million adding up to only $38.7 million domestically and $50.6 million worldwide…a pittance on a $140 million budget.

The Shallows is not just treading water despite a ninth-place finish, with an estimated $4.8 million weekend and $45.8 million domestic total against a $17 million budget. But Bollywood entered the top ten once more with the 283 theater release of Sultan, which picked up an estimated $2.2 million for the weekend, but a five-day release domestic gross of $3.2 million so far.

Weekend Box Office (July 8th – July 10th)

  1. The Secret Life of Pets…$103.2 million
  2. The Legend of Tarzan…$20.6 million
  3. Finding Dory…$20.4 million
  4. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates…$16.6 million
  5. The Purge: Election Year…$11.7 million
  6. Central Intelligence…$8.1 million
  7. Independence Day: Resurgence…$7.7 million
  8. The BFG…$7.6 million
  9. The Shallows…$4.8 million
  10. Sultan…$3.2 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."