What a strange summer at the box office this has already been.Toy Story 4easily took the weekend with a $118 million debut. This marks the highest opening in the franchise by a wide margin—toppingToy Story 3’s $110.3 million—but still falls below the $122 million the movie was estimated to rake in, andwellbelow the $140-165 million mark that Disney was originally expecting. The trend continues of big franchise tentpoles underperforming, althoughToy Story 4’s premiere isn’t nearly as tragic asDark PhoenixorMen in Black: International.
The film’s opening now stands as the fourth highest ever for an animated film, behindShrek the Third($121 million) and fellow Pixar titlesFinding Dory($135 million) andIncredibles 2($182.7 million).
Toy Story’s R-rated counterpartChild’s Play, the remake of the 1988 killer doll horror film, which landed in second place with $14 million. Although the film is not technically part of the largerChild’s Playfranchise, this would mark the highest opening for a film starring the homicidal Chucky doll, overtakingBride of Chucky’s $11.8 million premiere in 1998. The reboot, directed byLars Klevberg, starsAubrey Plaza,Brian Tyree Henry, andMark Hamill.
Luc Besson’sAnnaappears to be a bomb, as the action flick starringSasha Lusshit theaters to just $3.5 million, landing outside the top 10. The film wrapped production in December of 2017 but found itself in a holding pattern after actressSand Van Royaccused Besson of sexual assault. Lionsgate and Summit pretty much dumped the movie into theaters with the barest minimum marketing possible.
Check out the weekend’s top 10 estimates below, and be back here next week to see if Annabelle Comes Home can scare up any success at the box office. (Numbers via Box Office Mojo)
Toy Story 4
$118,000,000
Child’s Play (2019)
$14,055,540
$12,200,000
$287,510,128
Men in Black: International
$10,750,000
$52,689,654
The Secret Life of Pets 2
$10,290,000
$117,583,535
$5,650,000
$77,328,389
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
$4,075,000
$156,067,424
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
$3,700,000
$102,345,637
Dark Phoenix
$3,600,000
$60,159,311
$3,555,000
$15,941,394
