Box-Office Weekend: Toy Story 4 Crushes All Competition

Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 4 absolutely demolished its competition to reign supreme over this week’s box-office weekend. Though the studio was expecting somewhere in the area of a $140 million opening, they probably aren’t too disappointed with the $118 million opening that they got. This was not only the best opening for any film in the franchise to date, but it is also the fourth largest opening ever for an animated film. So, all in all, not too shabby.

In a very distant second-place is the horror film, remake, reboot, or whatever you care to call it, Child’s Play, which debuted with $14.1 million over the weekend. Holding firm in the third spot was Disney’s Aladdin, which added another $12.2 million over the weekend to give the live-action remake a five-week total of $287.5 million. Dropping from the top spot last week to fourth this week was Men in Black: International, which took in $10.8 million, boosting its two-week tally to $52.7 million. Just behind that, in fifth place, was last week’s second-place finisher, The Secret Life of Pets 2, which added $10.3 million over the weekend to give the animated family film a three-week total of $117.6 million.

Holding its ground in the middle of the top ten, was the Elton John biopic Rocketman, which lifted its four-week total to $117.6 million with a $5.7 million performance over the weekend, good enough for a sixth-place finish. Meanwhile, everyone’s favorite movie hitman leapt over Godzilla to lay claim to seventh place in this week’s top ten with a weekend tally of $4.1 million, giving John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum a six-week total of $156.1 million, while the aforementioned Godzilla: King of the Monsters took in just $3.7 million over the weekend to give the latest entry in the monster series a disappointing four-week total of $102.3 million.

In its third week of release, the latest “X-Men” film, Dark Phoenix plummeted from the fourth spot to ninth in this week’s top ten earning $3.6 million over the weekend. This gives the film a three-week cumulative total of $60.2 million. Finally, the Shaft reboot, dropped from the sixth spot last weekend to twelfth place bringing in just around $3.6 million to give it a two-week tally of $15.9 million as it looks poised along with Dark Phoenix to depart the top ten in the not too distant future. Two films departed the top ten this weekend: Late Night, which has taken in $10.7 million since its release in early June, and Ma, the horror film that sports a domestic total of $43.7 million since being release in late May.

Finally, the weekend box office gets started a bit early next week as Annabelle Comes Home debuts on Wednesday. Then, on Friday, director Danny Boyle’s ode to The Beatles, Yesterday, will be released.

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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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