Box Office Week: Cars 3 takes #1 with underwhelming $53.5M, All Eyez on Me opens stronger than expected at #3 with $27M, 47 Meters Down opens well at #5 with $11.5M, Rough Night flops at #7 with $8M, and finally Wonder Woman drops only 30% for third weekend with $40.7M, passing $500M worldwide.

Rank	Title	Domestic Gross (Weekend)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Week #
1	Cars 3	$53,547,000	$74,847,000	1
2	Wonder Woman	$40,775,000	$571,801,730	3
3	All Eyez on Me	$27,050,000	$27,050,000	1
4	The Mummy (2017)	$13,916,010	$295,626,710	2
5	47 Meters Down	$11,500,000	$11,500,000	1

Notable Box Office Stories:

• Despite more positive reviews than the last entry Cars is still clearly the redheaded stepchild franchise of the Pixar brand as Cars 3 had the fourth worst opening for a Pixar film opening at #1 with $53.5M. While that sounds bad we don't really have to worry about Pixar entering Good Dinosaur territory here for several reasons. First up while that opening is lower than Cars and Cars 2, it's still within $15M of those film's openings and they both closed over $150M domestic. Cars 3 has two weekends with no children's film competition until Despicable Me 3 so it has some room to grow and with the standard excellent A rating on Cinemascore it should hold just fine like its predecessors. Also Cars is still a fairly popular franchise overseas and with Cars 2 being the only rotten rated Pixar movie and it still passing $500M worldwide, Cars 3 should end its run just fine. Finally the big thing to remember is that when it comes to the Cars franchise the box office literally doesn't matter one bit. In the decade since Cars came out the franchise has earned $10B in merchandise sales and there are still plenty of TV and theme park areas to come for the franchise. Quite frankly this movie could make negative money and still come out profitable. The real question is will this be the last Cars theatrical release, and personally I think so. Cars 3 ends with a nice way of continuing the story, but I imagine this will be the last one as the domestic wear is starting to show. Cars will now just fully embrace its identity as a brand, ironically the exact opposite angle as the story in Cars 3.

• Usually I don't talk about a film that's not a new release or #1 but once again Wonder Woman had an incredible drop for an incredible weekend. While it didn't hold the #1 spot the film did come in at #2 with a fantastic $40.7M, a drop of just 30%. That places it as the 11th highest third weekend in history. To be clear most of the films that populate that list are films like Jurassic World, The Avengers, and The Force Awakens, aka some of the biggest openings off all time. The only other solo superhero on that list is Spiderman, and while Wonder Woman didn't top its third weekend gross it did have a lower percentage drop. Right now Wonder Woman is easily on track to pass Man of Steel's lifetime domestic gross by next week and has already passed the lifetime domestic grosses of Logan, The Amazing Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The film has also passed $500M worldwide. Oddly looking at this list the best comparison for a possible domestic lifespan of Wonder Woman is last year's The Jungle Book. Both films opened a little over $100M, both dropped around 40% second weekend and then 30% the third. If that's the case then Wonder Woman isn't just looking to pass $300M domestic, it could pass $350M and easily become the highest grossing DCEU film. If Wonder Woman manages to close at $350M that will mean it will have a opening weekend multiplier of 3.5x, a magnificent performance (for reference Man of Steel - 2.5x, BvS - 1.99x, Suicide Squad - 2.4x). Now obviously the issue is Jungle Book is an entirely different genre and usually kid's films are more spread out while superhero films tend to be front-loaded with big drops. However I think both show that good reviews and word of mouth matter a lot, especially when they don't have a massive event level opening.

• Despite having very little marketing and terrible reviews the Tupac biopic still managed to leverage the rap icon's fame well as All Eyez on Me surprised opening at #3 with $27M. Early predictions had the film opening over $30M do to the incredible $12M Friday but the film ended up being incredibly front-loaded as by Sunday the daily number had dropped down to $6M. It's clear with this opening we aren't going to see insane Straight Outta Compton numbers but this still could potentially hold well. For one we've seen films like SOC and Get Out prove that black audiences continue to go out for black films with good word of mouth. Despite being savaged by critics, All Eyez scored an A- on Cinemascore so it could hold despite the concerns around the Friday frontloading. The film does carry a solid $40M budget and typically rap biopics don't have a great overseas life (Straight Outta Compton made 80% of its total gross in domestic sales). With predictions placing All Eyez opening below $20M this is a pretty good start and the film could potentially hold well enough to justify its costs by the end.

• Sometimes movies are made just because another movie was successful, but sometimes a movie that's already been made gets a bigger release because another movie was successful. I always find those films and the results more fascinating as is the case with 47 Meters Down, a film that was intended to go straight to VOD to cash in on the Sharknado craze but instead was released in 2,000+ theaters this weekend to bank off The Shallows' surprise hit last summer. Despite getting much worse reviews than The Shallows, it seems there is a decent shark movie audience out there as the film as the film opened at #5 to $11.5M. While not quite up to the $16M opening of The Shallows last year (in almost the exact same weekend no less) it's still a pretty great pull for a film that likely cost less than $5M to make. It's also not a bad start for production company Entertainment Studios with this being their first film. Still don't expect the audiences to stick around like they did for Shallows. While that film got a great B+ rating, 47 Meters got a rough C rating so expect it to drop hard. Still it's a solid first weekend pull especially for a film that small. Don't be surprised if next year there's a couple random summer shark movies because apparently even 40 years after Jaws summer and sharks still go together.

• If you make a film with the word "rough" in the title it better not flop as Rough Night had a rough weekend opening at #7 with just $8M. The film received middling reviews from critics but even worse got a C+ rating from Cinemascore, a terrible rating for a comedy so it's very likely this film won't even pass its budget of $20M. This also represents the worst wide release opening for Scarlett Johansson since 2008's The Spirit. The fact this film couldn't even match modest predictions which had it opening in the low teens is a bad sign, especially for a film with such a notable cast. The film was the feature debut of Lucia Aniello, a Broad City alum who's mostly worked in TV. Once again like we see with The Lonely Island films success on TV rarely seems to translate to success on the big screen, especially if you employ the same kind of humor. This film is also going to put a lot more pressure on Spider-man: Homecoming as Sony has had an incredibly weak year so far.

Films Reddit Wants to Follow

This is a segment where we keep a weekly tally of currently showing films that aren't in the Top 5 that fellow redditors want updates on. If you'd like me to add a film to this chart, make a comment in this thread.

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget	Week #
Get Out	$175,484,140	$251,284,140	$4.5M	17
Beauty and the Beast (2017)	$503,365,014	$1,252,765,014	$160M	14
The Fate of the Furious	$224,893,405	$1,236,893,405	$250M	10
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	$374,853,015	$844,353,015	$200M	7

Notable Film Closings

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget
Kong: Skull Island	$168,052,812	$566,152,812	$185M

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Submitted June 19, 2017 at 09:06PM by mi-16evil http://ift.tt/2sKhszv