Box-Office Weekend: Spider-Man Puts the Toys Away!
Not only did Sony’s Spider-Man: Far from Home soundly unseat Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 from the top spot of the weekend box office, it also delivered the largest six-day opening for a Tuesday release in history (albeit that is undoubtedly a very select group). The film brought in $92.6 million over the weekend and first week cumulative total of $185.1 million. The film also looks as though it could have a solid shot at eclipsing the $334.2 million that its predecessor, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) earned.
Although it was dethroned by the web crawler, Toy Story 4 finished in a very respectable second-place earning $33.9 to lift its three-week total to $306.1 million. Once again, the Beatles fable Yesterday finished in third place with a $10.1 million weekend showing and a two-week total of $36.2 million.
Falling from the number two spot last week to a fourth-place finish this week was Annabelle Comes Home, which added $9.5 million over the weekend to give the horror film a two-week total of $49.8 million. Aladdin again fell one spot from fourth to fifth over the weekend with $7.5 million to give the live-action reimagined version of the story a seven-week haul of $320.7 million. The other debut to the weekend box-office was the somewhat undefinable Midsommar, which made $6.3 million over the weekend to position itself firmly in sixth place and make $10.9 million in its first week of release.
The family-friendly The Secret Life of Pets 2, finished its fifth week of release by falling to the seventh spot earning $4.7 million in its fifth week of release to give the animated sequel a cumulative total of $140.7 million. Men in Black: International also dropped a couple of spots over the weekend to eighth, after finishing in the sixth spot last weekend, with $3.8 million. This gives the film a four-week total of $72.1 million.
The re-released Avengers: Endgame finished in the ninth spot this weekend with $3.1 million, giving the film an eleven-week domestic total of $847.9 million and a worldwide cumulative total of $2.77 billion, making it second only to Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936.6 million) domestically, and Avatar ($2.78 billion) worldwide (which it might just be able to catch). Finally, finishing in the tenth spot was the Elton John biopic Rocketman, which added $2.6 million over the weekend to give it a six-week total of $89 million.
Leaving the top ten over the weekend were the horror/sequel remake Child’s Play, which has managed to gross $26.8 million since being released two weeks ago on June 21st and the latest Keanu Reeves vehicle John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, which has pulled in $165.1 million since its release way back on May 17th.
Next weekend will feature two new films that could make some noise over the box-office weekend: the thriller Crawl and the comedy Stuber. But, only time will tell at this point.
Weekend Box-Office (July 5th – July 7th)
- Spider-Man: Far from Home…$92.6 Million
- Toy Story 4…$33.9 Million
- Yesterday…$10.1 Million
- Annabelle Comes Home…$9.5 Million
- Aladdin…$7.5 Million
- Midsommar…$6.3 Million
- The Secret Life of Pets 2…$4.7 Million
- Men in Black: International…$3.8 Million
- Avengers: Endgame…$3.1 Million
- Rocketman…$2.6 Million
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