While the weekend performed better than it did a year ago, the box office had two films at the top that should have done a lot better than they did. The Secret Life of Pets 2 took too long to get here after the first film landed in 2016 as it opened to half of what that film did and then some as it’s just $47 million to the $104 million of the original. The film should do well overall in the long term without too much competition for a bit as it’s got an A- CinemaScore and families are getting ready for a lot of schools to be out. Weekday showings for this should do well to bolster its numbers. The film also began playing overseas previously so in its third weekend here it did another $16 million to bring its international to $49 million.
The other big film out that was tracking poorly for awhile with estimates of a $40 million opening, the final X-Men film with Dark Phoenix landed with a $33 million debut. This is about $15 off the estimates that the studio was looking at and doesn’t bode well with a B- CinemaScore – which is impressive considering even Apocalypse got a baffling A-. The film fared better overseas where it brought in $107 million with just under half of that coming from China.
Aladdin took a 43% dip in its third week to bring in $24.5 million and that places it at $232 million domestic and another $372 million overseas. Godzilla: King of the Monsters in its second weekend had a hard drop of 67% with a $15.5 million take, helping it to get to just under $79 million since it opened. It added some decent numbers over the week and it should cross $100 million but not too much further than that overall.
Next weekend sees Sony bringing out Men in Black International to 3,800 screens while Warner Bros. through New Line has Shafthitting 2,900 screens. Focus Features is bringing out The Dead Don’t Die in 550 screens while Amazon expands Late Night into another 15,00 screens above the four that it’s in now. Music Box Films has a limited release for In the Aisles while Roadisde Attractions has American Woman. Verizon Media rolls out the documentary 5B, making for a light week of limited releases.