Each week on Atom Insider, we break down the box office numbers for all of the biggest films opening in theaters. This week, yet another “living toy” movie entered the top 10, along with a romantic comedy, but neither was a match for Woody and the gang.
This Week’s Top Earner (For The Second Week In A Row) – ‘Toy Story 4’
We expected Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 4 to have strong legs throughout the week and through the weekend, and that turned out to be the case for this summer release. The animated sequel made $57.9 million domestically in its second week, and worldwide, it’s already grossed $496.5 million total. That means in just over a week, Toy Story 4 has nearly made half the total box office as its predecessor.
Toy Story 4 is already the 6th highest grossing film of 2019, as well as the eighth highest-grossing G-rated film ever made. Thanks to its momentum overseas, this will probably be the next Pixar film to cross the $1 billion mark. It looks like Pixar still has a friend in audiences.
Second Place – ‘Annabelle Comes Home’
The latest Annabelle sequel took in just $20.3 million domestically in its opening weekend, making this the weakest debut for all six Conjuring universe movies. It made $17 million less than the first Annabelle in 2014, not adjusting for inflation.
Worldwide, Annabelle Comes Home has amassed $76.2 million, but it has a long way to go before it can outgross the first Annabelle, which finished its run with $257.1 million globally. This might look like a setback for Warner Bros’s Conjuring expanded universe, but their strong showing with The Nun last year is at least one good sign that audiences are still interested in new spinoff ideas…just, maybe not another one featuring Annabelle.
And Third – ‘Yesterday’
All Yesterday needed was some box office love to drown out mixed reviews from critics, but those results were also a bit…mixed. Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis’s “What if the Beatles never existed?” musical romantic comedy brought in just $17 million domestically and $24.7 million overall for its debut. Not bad for a film with a reported budget of $26 million, but also not the out-of-the-gate hit Universal was probably hoping for.
The real test for Yesterday will be July 4th and this coming weekend, as Spider-Man: Far From Home swings into theaters (already glowing with good reviews). Audiences have proven with films like Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman (to a lesser extent) that they’re interested in musically-imbued and nostalgia-laced movies, but Yesterday might have a hard day’s week trying to make its case as the movie you need to see in theaters.
Rounding Out The Rest Of The Box Office
Aladdin (Disney) dropped just one spot to #4, making $9.3 million in its sixth week. Disney has had no qualms about keeping the film in over 3,200 theaters as the rest of the summer box office competition has floundered, allowing Aladdin to essentially walk away with $874.1 million worldwide and counting. That makes it the third highest-grossing film of 2019 behind Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame, which of course means it’s the second highest-grossing film of the summer.
The Secret Life of Pets 2 (Universal/Illumination) held on to the #5 spot with $7 million domestically in over 3,300 theaters. Worldwide, it’s made $223 million after a month at the box office. At this point, it’s probably safe to assume that Pets 2 will be Illumination’s lowest-performing animated film ever, just shy of The Lorax from 2012.
Men in Black: International (Sony) dropped two spots to #6 in its third week, making just $6.5 million domestically in over 3,600 theaters. Worldwide, the sci-fi film has scored $219 million, but it still needs to make quite a bit more to break even, especially because of its weaker showing in North America.
At #7, we have Avengers: Endgame, which climbed all the way up from #13 thanks to Disney’s rerelease with bonus material. The Marvel film made $5.5 million in over 2,000 theaters, putting it just $26 million away from surpassing Avatar to become the highest-grossing film of all time. Earlier this year we saw Captain Marvel gain a significant bump in the box office as a partner to the release of Endgame, so Disney is probably hoping the same can happen for Spider-Man: Far From Home, an MCU film made by Sony.
Ouch. Child’s Play (United Artists) fell six spots to #8 in its second weekend, making just $4.2 million in over 3,000 theaters. The horror reboot is by no means a flop thanks to its low reported budget of $10 million (it’s grossed $23 million domestically so far), but it will likely fall off the Top 10 by next week.
Rocketman (Paramount) dropped three spots to #9, making $3.8 million domestically in over 2,000 theaters. After five weeks at the box office, the R-rated Elton John biopic has been a modest hit relative to its budget, making $165.5 million worldwide against a reported budget of $40 million.
Last, we have John Wick: Chapter 3 (Lionsgate), which fell three spots to #10 with $3.1 million domestically in over 1,500 theaters. After seven weeks at the box office, John Wick has endured long enough to gross $303.6 million worldwide, making it a solid hit for an R-rated film and one of the highest grossers of the summer.
And They’re Out
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Warner Bros) dropped three spots to #11, winding down a solid five-week run that has made it the 9th highest-grossing film in 2019 worldwide with $376.9 million.
Dark Phoenix (Fox) dropped three spots to #13, now at $244.6 million worldwide after a month at the box office. That means the final film in the long-running X-Men franchise will likely be the lowest-grossing one, depending on what happens with New Mutants next year.
Anna (Lionsgate) dropped five spots to #14 in its second week. It only made $1.4 million domestically in over 2,100 theaters, as well as $7.5 million worldwide to date. Because of its reported budget of $30 million, Anna will likely be one of the summer’s most notable flops.
Check back with Atom Insider later this week as we preview all the new releases hitting theaters this Friday.
