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Mission Impossible – Fallout Repeats in First While Black Panther Crosses $700 Million

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With an estimated $35 million, Mission: Impossible – Fallout repeated at the top of the box office. It also brought in $76 million from 56 markets which included 20 new openings. The film’s domestic gross is $124.5 million so far. It has earned $205 million at the foreign box office for a total of $329.5 million worldwide. The film is doing very well compared to past Mission: Impossible films.

In second place was Disney’s Christopher Robin which fell short of expectations. The film earned an estimated $25 million. Things aren’t too bad as the film got an “A” CinemaScore and doesn’t have a lot of competition over the next few weeks. Still, disappointing. Internationally, the film opened in 18 markets where it brought in $4.8 million.

In third place was another debut, The Spy Who Dumped Me which earned an estimated $12.35 million. This too was a bit below expectations. With a budget of $40 million, the film shouldn’t do too bad and received a “B” CinemaScore.

In fourth place was Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again which added an estimated $9 million to its domestic total. Domestically it has earned $91 million. Internationally, it added $19.3 million as it opened in seven new markets. Overseas it has earned $139.2 million for a global total of $230 million.

Rounding out the top five was The Equalizer 2 which brought in an estimated $8.8 million to bring its domestic total to $79.9 million. The film doesn’t have much of an international footprint yet but will be expanding over the next three months.

In comic movie earnings…

Ant-Man and the Wasp dropped one spot to bring in $6.2 million and lift its domestic total to $195.5 million after five weeks. While the sequel has topped the original by $15 million, if you adjust the original for inflation, it’s still behind by $9 million. Internationally, the film has earned $230.8 million for a total of $426.3 million. Worldwide, the sequel still needs at least $93 million to move past the original.

In its second week, Teen Titans Go! To The Movies dropped 53.3% and brought in $4.9 million domestically. Its total is now $20.8 million, over double the budget of $10 million. Internationally the film as brought in $2.4 million for a total of $23.2 million.

Avengers: Infinity War was #22 slipping one spot earning an estimated $240,000 to bring its domestic total to $678.1 million. Internationally the film has earned $1.367 billion for a worldwide total of $2.045 billion. The film is $23.1 million shy of moving into third place of all time and there’s a chance the film could do it, though unlikely.

Deadpool 2 dropped four spots to come in at #27 for the weekend. The film earned $177,000 domestically to bring that total to $318 million. With $414.6 million earned internationally, the film has brought in a worldwide total of $732.6 million. The sequel lags the original in every way and with a much higher budget, it’s unlikely it’ll be as profitable as the original. It is the second most successful “X” film domestically behind the original (not adjusted for inflation) and worldwide the film is in third place (again unadjusted).

In the biggest news, Black Panther was #33 for the weekend bringing in $35,000 and crossing the $700 line. The film is only the third movie to do so. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the top film with $936.7 million and Avatar is second with $760.5 million. Internationally, Black Panther has earned $646.7 million for a worldwide total of $1.347 billion. The movie is the rare blockbuster that has earned more domestically than it has internationally.

We’ll be back for a further dive into this year’s comic adaptations.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout Debuts with a Franchise Best while Teen Titans Go! to the Movies Struggles

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout topped the box office with an estimated $61.5 million, which is the franchise’s largest three-day opening. It’s also the second largest opening for a Tom Cruise film.

The film earned the best reviews for the franchise, a 97% on RottenTomatoes and 86 on Metacritic as of writing. The opending day audience gave the film a franchise-best of “A” CinemaScore. Not suprisingly, the film was 55% male.

The film debuted in 36 markets delivering an estimated $92 million which is the biggest opening for the franchise.

With a positive reaction from audiences and it being at the tail end of the summer, the film should do quite well.

In second place was Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again with an estimated $15 million. Domestically the film has topped $70 million. It too has little competition for its demographic so should be interesting to see what legs it has.

The Equalizer 2 dropped to third place after topping the box office last weeked. With a $14 million estimate, the film dropped a lot more than original. It’s just short of $65 million after ten days.

In fourth place was Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation which brought in an estimated $12.3 million to bring its domestic total to $119.2 million after three weekends.

Rounding out the top five was Teen Titans Go! To the Movies which brought in an estimated $10.5 million. That’s far short of expectation which had the film opening in the mid-teens. We expected the film to easily be second for the weekend. The film has a budget of just $10 million, so the poor performance isn’t a disaster. What’s strange is the film has a very positive word of mouth. The film also opened in eight small markets internationally bringing in an estimated $1 million.

In other comic films…

Ant-Man and the Wasp brought in an estimated $8.4 million bringing the domestic total to $183.2 million which pushed it past the original. The film has a reported budget of $162-$195 million more than $30 million than the original which had a budget of $130 million. Worldwide the film stands at $394.2 million where the original earned $519.3 million.

Avengers: Infinity War earned an estimated $388,000 to bring its domestic total to $677.5 million and come in at #21 for the weekend.

Deadpool 2 brought in an estimated $270,000 to come in at #24 for the weekend. Its domestic total is $317.7 million so far.

Black Panther gets closer to that elusive $700 million domestically by bringing in an estimated $3,000 and coming in at #44 for the weekend. It stands at $699,955,434 domestically.

We’ll be back in an hour for a deeper dive into this year’s comic film adaptations.

Sequels Rule the Box Office as The Equalizer 2 Barely Edges Out Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!

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It was the battle of the sequels at the weekend box office and early reports have The Equalizer 2 winning the weekend with an estimated $35.8 million. It beat Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! which came in second with an estimated $34.4 million.

The Equalizer 2 topped the opening of the first film which earned $34.1 million for the first weekend. It received an “A” Cinemascore, again beating the originals “A-“. Internationally the film opened in 11 markets bringing in an estimated $3.3 million. The film has a long opening around the world wrapping up in October.

Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again also beat its first film by almost $7 million. It received an “A-” Cinemascore with 83% of the opening weekend audience was female. With little competition this summer, the film should do well. It opened in 41 markets and outperformed the original in 34 of those. It brought in $42.4 million for the foreign box office giving it a grand total of $76.8 million after its first weekend. That tops the budget of $75 million.

In third place was last weekend’s champ, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. It earned $23.2 million to bring its domestic gross to $91.1 million. Internationall it added $37.7 million to bring its overseas total to $115.6 million and $206.7 million worldwide. It still has a few openings well into August.

Ant-Man and the Wasp dropped 45% in its third weekend earning an estimated $16.1 million to bring its domestic total to $164.6 million. It earned $21.6 million internationally for an overseas total of $188.9 million and worldwide total of $353.5 million. The film will open in Germany, Austria, and Hungry next weekend, the UK August 2nd, Italy on August 14th, and Japan on August 31st. The film seems to be outpacing the original domestically but internationally we’ll have to wait and see after some of those openings. The UK drove a decent amount of earnings for the original some the comparison is difficult.

Rounding out the top five was Incredibles 2 which brought in $11.5 million to bring its domestic total to $557.3 million. It also earned $36.5 million internationally and worldwide it stands at $940.4 million. This film will be crossing the billion dollar mark.

In other comic films….

Deadpool 2 was #19 for the weekend earning $460,000 to bring its domestic total to $317.1 million and worldwide it has earned $732.9 million.

Avengers: Infinity War was right behind at #20 adding $402,000 to its total to bring it to $676.8 million domestically and $2.043 billion worldwide.

Black Panther added $25,000 to its domestic total to bring that to $699.9 million. We’re on our edge to see if it can cross $700 million domestically. Worldwide the film stands at $1.347 billion.

Next weekend sees the opening of a new comic based film, Teen Titans Go! to the Movies. This one will be a contender for first though it goes up against Mission Impossible – Fallout. Expect the Titans to come in second with a possible surprise first place.

We’ll be back in an hour for an even deeper dive into this year’s comic adaptations.