Hmm, I’m thinking “Finding Dory’ will hold its grip on the box-office for one more weekend, because I can’t see how “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Date” will unseat such a box-office titan”.
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Since the 4th of July fell on a Monday this year, Sunday became like a 2nd Saturday for movies, essentially turning Monday into Sunday.
Pixar and Disney’s Finding Dory is swimming ahead of the competition to stay at No. 1 in its third weekend, no small feat considering both BFG and The Legend of Tarzan are big-budget tentpoles created to set off major fireworks.
Rolling Stone said: “If Finding Dory lacks the fresh surprise of its predecessor, it still brims with humour, heart and animation miracles”.
Finding Dory owning the box office, 3 weeks in.
“The Legend Of Tarzan” finished in second place with an estimated 38.1 million dollars from 3,561 locations through the end of business Sunday, according to comScore statisticians tracking the industry projections.
Proving yet again that low budget horror flicks are always a nice way to make some cash, The Purge: Election Year banked triple its $10 million production budget on opening weekend. Proving that sometimes the experts don’t know what they’re talking about, Warner Bros.’ The Legend of Tarzan had a pretty successful opening weekend.
Elsewhere, Central Intelligence is creeping closer to $100 million domestic as is The Conjuring 2.
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. It’s been two years since Leo Barnes (Frank Grillo) stopped himself from a regrettable act of revenge on Purge Night. Looking back, the first in the now Purge trilogy stopped at $64.5 million in the United States while the sequel ended up higher, $72 million.
“The Legend of Tarzan” is turning in a respectable performance that’s about $10 million better than what had been forecast prior to the weekend. Warner Bros.is clearly hoping for some success in those markets to make up for the domestic box office failure. When all will be said and done The BFG might not even have $70 million domestically.
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Back home, rounding out the top five was “Independence Day: Resurgence” from 20th Century Fox and Roland Emmerich. Without the double Saturday thing this could have been way down there, I’m talking off by 65-70%. The weekend newcomers took spots 2 through 4, while the Top 5 was rounded out by a weak sophomore performance from “Independence Day: Resurgence”.
