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Box Office Weekend – ‘Mission: Impossible’ Repeats at #1 While ‘Christopher Robin’ Has Fair Opening

by · August 5, 2018

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout continues to blow the box office away with the franchise’s best second-weekend performance ever as as the movie looks like it’s on the way to becoming the most successful in the franchise. Meanwhile, Christopher Robin has a so-so opening weekend that should be no bother – provided that the film is able to have strong legs during the next few weeks, where it won’t have much competition.

 

Fallout only had an under-43% drop on its second weekend, something that indicates strong audience interest and repeat business. Over the course of its first full week of play and its second weekend, Ethan Hunt’s sixth mission has already doubled its opening weekend gross (which, as noted in a previous report, is the best for the franchise) and shows no signs of stopping, making it likely that the movie could have the biggest total box office for the franchise domestically and globally by the time it’s finished playing in theaters.

 

Meanwhile, Christopher Robin worked as counterprogramming against the spy action movie with a $25M weekend. That’s below initial expectations, but the good thing is that it’s above the opening to 2016’s Pete’s Dragon ($21.5M) and audiences who saw the movie loved it with an “A” Cinemascore and a solid 4.5/5-star rating on PostTrak. With any luck, that kind of good-word-of-mouth against minimal competition should be able to carry the $70M+ movie into profitability by the time it hits Blu-Ray and DVD. The same may not be said for fellow newcomers The Spy Who Dumped Me from Lionsgate or Fox’s The Darkest Minds, both of which had underwhelming weekends of $12M+ and $5M+ respectively versus respective budgets of $40M and $34M. While Christopher Robin‘s reviews were mixed-to-positive, critics panned these other two movies and audiences aren’t as warm to either, indicating that future weekends at the box office could be rough for either movie.

 

The remaining movies on this list held over pretty well, with Teen Titans GO! To The Movies being the worst holdover with a still-respectable under-54% drop, while Eighth Grade got a pretty substantial boost out of opening in hundreds of more theaters. Last, but not least, Black Panther was able to pull off a miracle and clear the $700M mark while playing in a mere 25 theaters, making it the third movie to do so in box office history after Fox’s Avatar and Disney’s Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and the first to accomplish such a feat outside of the Winter/Spring window. This in spite of being available on Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital formats for nearly three months straight.

 

The Top Twelve for the three-day weekend can be summarized as follows (bolded titles are new releases):

  1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Paramount Pictures) – $35M Weekend/$124.487M Total; 42.8% Drop.
  2. Christopher Robin (Disney) – $25.003M Weekend.
  3. The Spy Who Dumped Me (Lionsgate) – $12.35M Weekend.
  4. Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! (Universal Pictures) – $9.09M Weekend/$91.335M Total; 39.8% Drop.
  5. The Equalizer 2 (Sony Pictures) – $8.83M Weekend/$79.886M Total; 37% Drop.
  6. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (Sony Pictures) – $8.2M Weekend/$136.455M Total; 33.1% Drop.
  7. Ant-Man and the Wasp (Disney/Marvel Studios) – $6.188M Weekend/$195.469M Total; 29.4% Drop.
  8. The Darkest Minds (20th Century Fox) – $5.8M Weekend.
  9. Incredibles 2 (Disney/Pixar) – $5.009M Weekend/$583.141M Total; 31% Drop.
  10. Teen Titans GO! To The Movies (Warner Bros./Warner Animation Group) – $4.86M Weekend/$20.784M Total; 53.3% Drop.
  11. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Universal Pictures) – $4.01M Weekend/$405.616M Total; 40.4% Drop.
  12. Eighth Grade (A24) – $2.87M Weekend/$6.581M Total; 126.2% Rise.

Incredibles 2, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Ant-Man and the Wasp, The Equalizer 2, and Mission: Impossible – Fallout are now playing in theaters.

 

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