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Box-Office Weekend: Spider-Man Puts the Toys Away!

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

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)

  1. Spider-Man: Far from Home…$92.6 Million
  2. Toy Story 4…$33.9 Million
  3. Yesterday…$10.1 Million
  4. Annabelle Comes Home…$9.5 Million
  5. Aladdin…$7.5 Million
  6. Midsommar…$6.3 Million
  7. The Secret Life of Pets 2…$4.7 Million
  8. Men in Black: International…$3.8 Million
  9. Avengers: Endgame…$3.1 Million
  10. Rocketman…$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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