X-Men: Apocalypse
Box Office Weekend: Finding Dory Tops Again
The latest Disney Pixar release is doing just swimmingly (at least, in the United States), as Finding Dory grows ever closer to a $300 million domestic haul with an estimated $73.2 million at the box office this past weekend. Its second week totals overshadowed the release of Independence Day: Resurgence. The panned sequel to the 1996 megahit opened with an estimated $41.6 million, but at a $165 m...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Audiences Find Dory Delightful
The box office is big again. In the best weekend since the beginning of May (when Captain America: Civil War was released), Finding Dory took the top spot, and it was by a wide margin: at an estimated $136.2 million, it was the biggest opening for a PG-rated film in history. At an estimated $34.5 million second-place finisher Central Intelligence fell much further behind in gross, but the buddy co...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Conjuring Sequel Slams Door on Competition
It may have opened slightly below the earnings of the original, but The Conjuring 2 is proving not every sequel is a miss, scoring an estimated $40.4 million in domestic box office. It kept the fantasy epic Warcraft at bay, which opened to a disappointing domestic estimate of $24.4 million on a $160 million budget…but with big overseas returns ($261.7 million in foreign box office), the film...[Read More]