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Box Office Weekend: Pixar’s Cars 3 Takes Top Spot from Wonder Woman

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

Pixar/Disney rode their newest offering, Cars 3, to the top of the box office this week with $53.5 million, pushing the juggernaut Wonder Woman to second place. Despite the drop to the number two spot, Wonder Woman still brought in an impressive $40.8 million to brings its three-week total to an impressive $274.6 million.

The new Tupac biopic, All Eyez on Me, came in third place with $27.1 million. From there, things get a little more pedestrian with The Mummy adding $13.9 million to bring its two-week total to $56. 5 million. The shark-infested thriller 47 Meters Down debuted to $11.5 million which was just a shade above the studio’s $10 million expectations. Sixth place belongs firmly to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which added $8.5 million to its $150.1 million domestic total.

The new $20 million comedy, Rough Night, finished with only $8 million, good enough for seventh place on our list, but little else. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie added $7.4 million over the weekend to bring its three-week total to $58 million. Meanwhile, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 dropped to ninth-place earning $5 million, bringing its seven-week total to $374.9 million. Finally, the low-budget horror film It Comes at Night made $2.6 million in its second week of release to bring its total to $11.1 million.

This week, these films brace for the arrival of director Michael Bay’s latest foray into the destruction of childhood memories with Transformers: The Last Knight, which will certainly have something to say about who owns next weekend’s box office.

Weekend Box Office (June 16th – June 18th)
  1. Cars 3…$53.5 Million
  2. Wonder Woman…$40.8 Million
  3. All Eyez on Me…$27.1 Million
  4. The Mummy…$13.9 Million
  5. 47 Meters Down…$11.5 Million
  6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales…$8.5 Million
  7. Rough Night…$8.0 Million
  8. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie…$7.4 Million
  9. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2…$5.0 Million
  10. It Comes at Night…$2.6 Million

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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