6/21/2015
Box Office: 'Jurassic World' Tops the Food Chain while Pixar's 'Inside Out' Scores with #91M
1. Jurassic World- $102M/$398.2M
After only 10 days Jurassic World is chomping at the edges of a whopping $400M domestically, and is on track to be the fastest film in history to cross that threshold. It slid only 51% in week number two which is tremendous when one thinks of the stiff competition it got from Pixar's Inside Out. Speaking of which...
2. Inside Out (review here)- $91M
First, the bad news: Inside Out is the first Pixar film not to debut at the top of the box office. Now, the good news: Nobody at Disney or Pixar care because the film opened with $91M, the highest number for a #2 film ever, plus another $41M overseas. At a time when many continue to decry the lack of original features from Pixar lately, Inside Out just scored their biggest non-franchise opening weekend, and the second-biggest overall just behind Toy Story 3. So that's not too shabby, and in this case it seems the high concept nature of the film (it takes place inside of a little girl's mind) is what attracted audiences the most. Nice to see people reward such a brilliantly creative film.
3. Spy- $10.5M/$74.3M
4. San Andreas- $8.2M/$132.2M
5. Dope (review here)- $6M
The last couple of weeks have seen arguably the two most buzzed-about movies from Sundance hit theaters, albeit with different rollouts. Last week it was the smaller platform release of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and this week it's the hip-hop comedy, Dope, a film many are calling a coming-of-age classic. Directed by Rick Famuyiwa and featuring only Zoe Kravitz and A$AP Rocky as bankable names, the film has been all the rage for months and opened with a decent $6M. This is the very definition of summer movie and Open Road may have been better off waiting a few more weeks to get away from the Jurassic World juggernaut. But it speaks to their confidence they released it now, and with incredibly strong reviews (it's at 90% on Rotten Tomatoes) it could be one of the summer's most successful comedies.
6. Insidious Chapter 3- $4.1M/$45.3M
7. Pitch Perfect 2- $3.2M/$177.4M
8. Mad Max: Fury Road- $2.8M/$143.6M
9. Avengers: Age of Ultron- $2.7M/$449.3M
10. Tomorrowland- $2M/$87.6M