Last year, the studio released the movie “Inside Out”, which opened below the box office smash “Jurassic World” yet placed ahead of the dinosaur movie at the box office later on and became one of the highest-grossing films of the year.
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Modern Family stars Ty Burrell and Ed O’Neill also supply voices, along with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Kaitlin Olson.
The weekend’s other new release, “Central Intelligence”, collected a solid $34.5 million in second place.
It overtook the previous lead, Shrek The Third, which earned $121.6 million (£83 million) back in 2007. In fact, the evening showings of Finding Dory saw double the amount of business of Pixar’s Inside Out, which they attribute to older audiences showing up. Internationally “Finding Dory” pulled in a weekend total of $186.2 million. “Central Intelligence was great counter-programming against Finding Dory and a strong option for audiences who were not animated film fans”. China led the way with a $17.5 million (£12m) opening- an impressive statistic, considering that the nation that had a much smaller box-office market in 2003 and therefore had little exposure to Finding Nemo. Pixar’s personal opening weekend record previously belonged to Toy Story 3, which opened to $110 million in 2010.
“Finding Nemo’s” sequel tells the story of Dory, a blue tang fish with short term memory loss. The female audience powered this opening weekend, ‘ Dergarabedian commented. After examining the success of its first five hits this year, the output had been predicted to push the industry’s box office gross this year, beating the 2015 record.
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“That’s really a testament to this being a picture for everyone – not just for families”, Dave Hollis, Disney Executive Vice President of Distribution, stated in an interview. Now You See Me 2 lags behind the smash-up moneymaking prowess of the original film, with an estimated $9.7 million bringing its two-week domestic total to $41.4 million.
