Pixar Animation’s latest hit Inside Out has achieved a lot of milestones with great reviews, Oscar talk and becoming the second-biggest opening weekend for a Pixar release, but one thing it doesn’t seem to be able to achieve is a #1 weekend. Although it’s been #1 for a couple of weekdays since opening, it once again fell just short of defeating Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World, which was #1 for a fourth weekend in a row. It’s the second Universal movie of the year to achieve that milestone after Furious 7, which dominated April.
Paramount Pictures’ Terminator Genisys had to settle for third place, while Warner Bros.’ Magic Mike XXL bombed after a strong opening day.
Jurassic World added another $30.9 million over the 4th of July weekend, down 44% from last weekend and with that, it’s grossed $558 million, surpassing The Dark Knight to become the fourth-highest grossing movie domestically and only the fourth movie to gross more than $550 million in North America alone. So far, Jurassic World has grossed just under $1.4 billion worldwide (passing Avengers: Age of Ultron) with another $42 million earned in 66 territories this weekend.
Disney•Pixar’s 15th feature film release in the 20 years since Toy Story, Inside Out, featuring the voices of Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling and Phyllis Smith, took in another $12.5 million on Friday, July 3rd, pulling ahead of Jurassic World, but it’s estimated by Disney to only gross $30.1 million for the weekend, down 43% from last weekend.
It has earned $246.2 million domestically, which makes it Pixar’s seventh-highest grossing movie domestically after just three weekends. It also means that it’s officially beat My Big Fat Greek Wedding as the highest-grossing movie to never hit #1 (at least on the weekend.) There’s a very good chance it will end up crossing $300 million domestically, which would make it the animation studio’s third-biggest feature after Toy Story 3 and Finding Nemo, although come Friday, it will have to face another animated juggernaut in Universal’s Minions.
Inside Out is rolling out slower internationally, as it added another $18.6 million in less than 50% of international territories. The film has helped the Walt Disney Studios cross the $1 billion mark domestically and $3 billion worldwide in the first half of 2015. That’s the fastest the studio has reached that amount helped by the Pixar movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Cinderella.
Speaking of Minions, it has already opened internationally in 26 territories setting records for a Universal animated opening in Austria, Finland, Germany, Norway and other countries. It added another $54.3 million, with Germany making up $9 million of that, and has $124 million banked internationally before its North American release.
Despite trailing behind Warner Bros.’ Magic Mike XXL on their respective opening Wednesdays, Paramount Pictures’ Terminator Genisys, reviving Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most popular character and pairing him with Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney and J.K. Simmons, began its run with $8.9 million on Wednesday and another $6.5 million Thursday. On Friday, it pulled ahead of Magic Mike XXL with $10.7 million but fell behind the two returning blockbusters. It ended up taking third place with $28.7 million just behind Jurassic World and Inside Out with $44.2 million in its first five days.That’s slightly more than the last installment Terminator Salvation grossed in its first three days before going on to make $125 million domestically.
$10.2 million of Terminator Genisys‘s global gross, currently at $130 million with $85.5 million grossed overseas (after $8.4 million in smaller territories last week), came from its IMAX theaters with $5.5 million earned in 363 domestic IMAX screens in its first five days.
On the other hand, the sequel to Channing Tatum’s 2012 hit, Magic Mike XXL, co-starring Amber Heard, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Gabriel Iglesias and Jada Pinkett Smith, started its run on Wednesday with a strong $9.3 million (including $2.4 million from Tuesday night previews), which was #1 for the day. It dropped on Thursday and then only grossed $6.3 million on Friday (fourth place for the day) with Warner Bros. estimating $12 million over the three-day weekend, which means that it ends its first five days with just $27.1 million. That’s considerably less than the $39 million three-day opening of the original Magic Mike.
Seth MacFarlane’s comedy sequel Ted 2 (Universal) took a massive plunge in its second weekend, dropping to fifth place with $11 million, down 67%, with a domestic gross of $58.3 million, which is slightly more than the original movie’s opening weekend. It has taken in $94.3 million worldwide.
New Line’s doggie drama Max also dropped two spots to sixth place with another $7 million (down 42%), bringing its ten-day total to $25.7 million.
The Melissa McCarthy comedy Spy (20th Century Fox) grossed another $5.5 million over the weekend to reach $97.9 million domestically for seventh place, while Dwayne Johnson’s disaster flick San Andreas added another $3 million in eighth place to bring its domestic total to $147.4 million as it starts to catch up to Mad Max: Fury Road.
The Sundance hit Me and Earl and the Dying Girl expanded into 870 theaters on Friday where it brought in $1.3 million to take ninth place with $4 million grossed to date. Another popular Sundance flick, Dope (Open Road), rounded out the Top 10 with just $1.1 million, having grossed a disappointing $14 million.
The Top 10 earned an estimated $130.7 million, which is still up from last 4th of July weekend when Transformers: Age of Extinction dominated with $37 million over Melissa McCarthy’s Tammy, the horror flick Deliver Us From Evil and the found-footage family film Earth to Echo.
Opening in six theaters on Friday, the Amy Winehouse doc Amy (A24) grossed $222,000, or $37,000 per theater, with plans to expand into more theaters next Friday.
