Tarzan falls just shy of three-time domestic champ Finding Dory and its estimated $50.2 million four-day total, bringing the Pixar sequel’s North American total to around $380.5 million after just 18 days in release. When the holiday weekend is complete, Finding Dory should have a domestic total of $380.8 million, making it the second highest-grossing Pixar film, and it should dethrone 2010’s Toy Story 3, which now holds the Pixar record with a $415 million domestic total.
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In its second weekend of release, Fox’s “Independence Day: Resurgence” finished fifth with $20.2 million for the four days. The film beat the projections of most box office analysts-including this one-and, with an A- CinemaScore, it may hold well in the weeks to come.
“Purge: Election Year” opened in third place with $30.9 million in opening day receipts.
Other returning entries that did not really maintain their reception are “Central Intelligence”, which grossed $3.7 million; “Shallows”, which earned $ 3 million; “The Conjuring 2”, which earned $1.2 million on Friday; and “Free State of Jones”, which collected $1.182 million on Friday.
Rolling Stone said: “If Finding Dory lacks the fresh surprise of its predecessor, it still brims with humour, heart and animation miracles”. And where did she learn to speak Whale?
Box Office Mojo reports that Finding Dory dropped just 42.6% this weekend. Ray, a spotted eagle ray; John Ratzenberger as the school of Moonfish; and Andrew Stanton as Crush, a Green sea turtle. And what are you looking forward to in the future?
Finding Dory held firm at the top of the U.S. box office despite competition from The BFG and The Legend of Tarzan.
The unlikely Cinderella story of the long weekend is Universal’s “The Purge: Election Year”, the most recent film in James DeMonaco’s “Purge” series, produced by Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes. However, this year it turned out that the national holiday is harvesting a weak crop from new releases with a high-cost budget such as “The Legend of Tarzan” and “The BFG”, as cited by The Huffington Post.
The Legend of Tarzan brought in $38.1 million, landing at the No. 2 position for the weekend. But the 140 million dollar film will be lucky to take 25 million in its opening weekend, despite strong audience reactions and decent critics scores.
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Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment partnered with Disney and Walden Media on The BFG, based on Roald Dahl’s beloved book of the same name about a man-eating giant (Mark Rylance) who softens upon meeting a young orphan girl (Ruby Barnhill).
