- F1: The Movie (review)- $55.6M
Brad Pitt’s star power drove Apple to its first major blockbuster hit, as F1 got out of the gate with $55.6M domestic. Worldwide, the film’s $144M total is Pitt’s biggest opening weekend over, besting World War Z at $111M. The Formula One drama about a veteran racer taking an arrogant upstart under his wing, also took in $27.7M from IMAX screenings globally.
2. How to Train Your Dragon– $19.4M/$200M
Criticism about Dreamworks’ live-action How to Train Your Dragon being a thing appears to be moot. The film has been a smash hit, hitting the $200M domestically and should surpass the $217M stateside haul of the original in a few days. Worldwide, the film has $454M, just $40M shy of the entire run of its predecessor.
3. Elio– $10.7M/$42.2M
No such luck that Pixar’s Elio would have a long, successful run based on word of mouth. The struggling film fell 49% in week two for just $10.7M and $42M domestically, while globally it has $72M.
4. M3GAN 2.0 (review)- $10.2M
Blumhouse continues to try and reclaim its old magic. M3GAN 2.0 seemed like a surefire hit based on the $181M success of M3GAN in 2023. Instead, the sequel malfunctioned with just $10.2M domestically and $17M globally. Ouch. Forget the critical reviews; those shouldn’t matter for a movie that’s meant to be silly horror fun, even with the shift in genre to action-comedy. The reason for this, in my opinion, was the decision to drop it in the middle of summer rather than in January. Whoever made that move should be fired.
5. 28 Years Later– $9.7M/$50.3M
6. Lilo & Stitch– $6.9M/$400M
7. Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning– $4.1M/$185.9M
8. Materialists– $2.9M/$30.4M
Celine Song’s Materialists has given A24 its biggest movie of the year at $30.4M, surpassing Warfare‘s $25M.
9. Ballerina– $2.1M/$55.4M
10. Karate Kid: Legends– $1M/$51.5M
Also…Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby (review) opened in four locations and earned $86K for a $21K per site average. Victor wrote and directed the film as well as starred alongside Naomie Ackie and Lucas Hedges, telling the darkly comic story of a woman and her recovery from a traumatic event. A24 will give it a national rollout on July 18th.
