Apparently a lot and nothing at all can happen when you take a few weeks off in June.
Toy Story 5 popped open the Jack-In-The-Box with a $159.7 million debut. Clearly, this film knew how to properly “blockbuster” as opposed to a lot of the films this summer. While I was terrified that Taylor Swift’s song was going to break me as much as Sarah McLachlan’s “When She Loved Me” song from Toy Story 2, it was thankfully just a throw-away song during the end credits. Crisis averted!
Minions and Monsters banana-ed its way to $62 million over all five days of the elongated 4th of July weekend. That smells more like a fart gun than a dart gun. Maybe it can keep rolling through the month, but this was the slowest beginning of a Minion/Despicable Me movie. Have they finally met their arch enemy… OverExposure?!
Meanwhile, Supergirl was sadly anything but with a $37.1 start. When people bring up things like Morbius has a bigger opening, this is not the Morbin’ Time Warner Bros. was hoping for. Now while we all hear cries of “superhero fatigue” whenever films like this falter, they never mention those same words when Deadpool & Wolverine and the upcoming Spider-Man film debut with $200 million. When a film never gets above the 60’s in testing scores, that’s not because it’s a superhero movie.
With many big films going sideways, the two low-budget superstars of the season, Obsession and Backrooms, were able to keep putting butts in seats. Can Moana sail her way into the Top 5 this weekend or are the only final players of the season coming in a Trojan Horse and Tangled Web He Weaves? We’ll find out…
The Top Five If Today Was Labor Day:
#1. Toy Story 5 - $365 million
#2. Obsession - $245 million
#3. The Devil Wears Prada 2 - $220 million
#4. Backrooms - $190 million
#5. The Mandalorian and Grogu - $176 million
