Box Office Week: Toy Story 4 has biggest opening in franchise history with $118M. Child's Play so-so performance with $14M, and Anna, well, there's a movie called Anna playing in theaters apparently.

Rank	Title	Domestic Gross (Weekend)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Week #	Percentage Change	Budget
1	Toy Story 4	$118,000,000	$238,000,000	1	N/A	$200M
2	Child’s Play (2019)	$14,055,540	$14,055,540	1	N/A	$10M
3	Aladdin (2019)	$12,200,000	$810,110,128	5	-29.5%	$183M
4	Men In Black International	$10,750,000	$182,089,654	2	-64.2%	$110M
5	The Secret Life of Pets 2	$10,290,000	$194,683,535	3	-57.8%	$80M

Notable Box Office Stories:

Toy Story 4: You live at the servitude of the mouse and you better like it. The fourth entry in this Pixar/Disney franchise came in #1 surprising no one. This is the biggest opening weekend in this franchise, and the third biggest opening this year. A beloved franchise with a RT of 98% and an “A” from CinemaScore audiences this was a good gamble in adding this chapter to the seemingly completed trilogy. But while critics and audiences did love this newest entry it doesn’t come without some “problems”, if you can call making $118M a problem. What was surprising however was that the numbers did come in lower than estimates, by as much as $20M off. In the summer of humdrums, Disney has mostly avoided it, with only Dumbo underperforming. Toy Story 4 was expected to break out of this slog that has affected all other studios in recent weeks. You have to wonder if the franchise has reached his apex as far as new audiences reach. This entry was only $8M more (TS3 110M v TS4 118M) in its opening weekend than its predecessor. The franchise that launched CGI animation to the stratosphere might have been outgrown by its audience that grew up with it. With such a great audiences score, let’s see if word of mouth helps its multiplier in the weeks to come. Please understand, it’s not a bomb by any stretch of the imagination, but this summer of under performance continues, even with surefire hits. I’m pretty sure the Disney executives are crying themselves to sleep until next week when they push Avengers: Endgame to the #1 movie of all time or until Lion King opens July 19th.

Toy Story 4: (Cont) Internationally it’s doing better than can be expected in this summer, bringing in just a little more than domestically (120 vs 118). Making it the biggest animated movie opening in history. And while final numbers are not in as of this writing, China seems to have fallen in love with the release of Spirited Away (never before officially release in this country) over Toy story 4. But please don’t worry about the mouse, the mouse is your friend, you must submit to the mouse.

Child’s Play: This new remake in this horror franchise was also bitten by the under performance bug. With bigger estimates than reality this horror movies will turn a profit, it does come with some caveats, since the return is so small in this opening weekend of $14M vs a budget of $10M, you have to wonder if Chucky/Buddi is going to make another entry in the big screen, or in the direct to video that its predecessor seemed to do so well in the last decade. Especially when you have a well-known version of Chucky that had a good revival in the last 2 movies before doing this shoehorn remake. With a TV show coming (probably) next year from original creator and Chucky, you have to think that this remake confused/deflated fans of this franchise and preferred to not see this newest re-incarnation. That can be reflected in the “C” score from audiences. Not a good multiplier score for any movies, but horror movies bank on a big opening weekend, and this was just not the case here.

Anna: Luc Besson latest movie made is entry as the #9 movie in the top 10. You have to wonder if between the sexual allegations and the trashed reviews, if it even was a good idea to release this movie. Hated by critics and audiences, and in the “Me too” era, you have to wonder if the already faltering star power of this director is all but gone, after the massive failure of “Valerian and the miscasts protagonists”, and now Anna.

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 (Weekly)	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget	Week #
Captain Marvel	$65,000	$426,754,530	$1,128,125,775	$152M	16
Avengers: Endgame	$1,895,000	$834,503,966	$2,749,603,966	$356M	9
Pokémon Detective Pikachu	$872,401	$141,660,482	$422,160,482	$150M	7
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum	$6,401,225	$148,928,130	$289,167,424	$55M	6

Notes: If this weeks box summary sounds a little bland than normal, please note that THE u/mi-16evil is on vacation, and as a tribute, I’m trying to fill his shoes. Because I know how much I appreciate his weekend Box Office breakdowns.

Submitted June 24, 2019 at 09:35PM by fenixborealis http://bit.ly/2N8xhuP