“Ouch. Universal’s Live-action How to Train Your Dragon Will HAVE NO TRUBLE STAYING NO. 1 in is Second Weekend with An Estimated $ 35.7 Million Despite The Entry of the Zombie Sequel 28 Years Later and the Animated Elio Marketplace”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Universal’s Live-action How to Train Your Dragon Will have no Trouble Staying no. 1 IN ITS Second Weekend with An Estimated $ 35.7 Million Despite The Entry of the Zombie Sequel 28 Years Later and the animated Elio – WHICH is headed for the Lowest Opening in the History of Pixar Amid A Crowded Marketplace for Family Fare.
Danny Boyle’s Zombie Sequel, from Sony, Topped Friday’s Chart with $ 14 14 Million, Including $ 5.8 Million in Thursday Previews, But Will Be Ortaken by How to Train Your Dragonfrom the universal-o camened Dreamworks animation, sometime on Saturday.
A few weeks ago, 28 Years Later Was Tracking to Open to $ 35 Million, with More Bullish Pundits Thinking ItCo’s Could Could in North of $ 40 Million. Insthead, It’s Headed for a Solid $ 30 Million to $ 31 Million Domestic Start. Similar to the Family Space, Some Are Specialting That Horror Marketplace May Be Over-Saturated, Led by The Box Office Hit Final Destination: Bloodlines.
28 Years Later Will Still Mark The Biggest Opening of Boyle’s Career and Reunites the Filmmaker with Writer Alex Garland 25 Years After 28 days Hit The Big Screen and Became a Cult Classic. Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams and Ralph Fiennes Star in What’s The FIRST Installment in a Planned Trilogy.
Reviews Have Widly Embrated the R-R-POTED TITLE, BUT ACTUAL MOVIEGOERS ARE SEMEWHATE LESS ENTHUSIASTIC; ITS Current Audence Score on Rotten Tomatoes is 67 Percent, Compared to A 90 Percent Critics’ Score. At Same Time, It’s Garnering Decent Exit Scores from Leading Exit-Polling Service Posttrak. And it Earned a b cinemascore, which is like an a grade whohn it comes to Horror Fare.
Facing Fierce Competition from How to Train Your Dragon and Fellow Disney Release Lilo & Stitch, Elio Took in $ 9 Million on Friday for a Projected Third-Place Domestic Opening in The $ 20 Million to $ 22 Million Range. Elio – An Original Film About a Young Boy Whose Wish to Travel to Outer Space and Interact with Aliens Comes True – was expectioned to Open to at Least $
But with Interest Stalling in Recent Days, Disney Insiders Lowered Their Projections to $ 20 Million to $ 25 Million As Pixar Braced for the Worst 3-Day Opening In Its Housory Bene Elemental ($ 29.6 Million) In June 2023 and Its Very First Film, 1995’s Toy Story ($ 29.1 Million), Not Adjusted for Inflation. Toy Story opened over thanksgiving and amassed $ 39 Million Over The Long Five-Day Holiday Weekend.
In 2023, Elemental‘S Opening Was Called Nothing Short of A Debacle, Yet It Turned Into A Sleeper Hit on Its To Earning Nearly $ 500 Million Globally. Pixar and Parent Company Disney, Are Confident That Elio Will have the Same Sort of Staying Power Througout the Summer WHEN Kids Sprung from School. SO FAR, Elio IS GRACED WITH A BETTER Critics Score on Rotten Tomatoes Than Elementalas Well As Glowing Posttrak Exit Results and an a CinemaScore, Including An A+ FROM Kids.
Pixar Has Been Struggling to Find ITS FOOTING IN A WORLD WHERE ORIGINAL ANIMATED SERIES DON’T OPEN TO THE HEGGHTSHTSY ONCE DID-THINK North of $ 70 Million-In the Post-Pandemic World And Durying the Pandemic Years, Then-Disney Ceo Bob Chapek Decided to Send Three Pixar Titles Straight To Disney+ Domestically, Including Turning Red, LUCA and the Oscar-Winning SoulA Decision Rivals SAID TAUGHT FAMILIES TO WAIT TO Watch A Film at Home. (All Three Were Considered Streaming Hits.)
But Pixar and Disney Reversed Course and Are Once Again Committed To Telling Original Theatric Stories, Mixed In With Known IP, Suc as Last Year’s Blockbuster and Record-Shatting Inside Out 2The Top-Grossing Pic of 2024, The Top Ever Title for Pixar and the Top Animated of All Time With More More Than $ 1.69 Billion in Worldwide Ticket Sales, Not Adjusted Forflation. (As fte would have it, Inside Out 2 OPENED ON SAME June Weekend A Year Ago.)
The Live-action Lilo & Stitch Remains A Force to be Reckoned with in Itfth Weekend, and Could Earn As Much As $ 9 Million to $ 10 Million Domestic for a Four-Place Finish. Also, now in it fifth weekend, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Continues to Show Staying Power and Is Expert To Round Out The Top Five With $ 7 Million.
A24’s Specialty Romantic Drama Materialists Continues to do wel, and is experted come in a domestically with an entically $ 5.5 Million to $ 6 Million.
Numbers Will Be Updated Sunday Morning.