'Mission' Notches Best 2nd Weekend For Franchise With $35M; 'Christopher Robin' No Eeyore With $25M
Paramount is reporting a second $35M for its Skydance co-production of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which is easily the best second weekend for the Tom Cruise franchise. Depending on how you slice and dice it, M:I: Ghost Protocol had a funky platform release during the 2011 holiday season, going wide in its second weekend with 3,448. That said, the second weekend here of Fallout at $35M beats the second ($29.55M) and third weekend ($29.4M) of Ghost Protocol. Domestic currently stands at $124.4M, pacing 16% ahead of Rogue Nation through 10 days. Fallout saw a 49% increase on Saturday from Friday, and overall, the hold was -43%, besting Rogue Nation's -49%.
Disney is calling Christopher Robin at $25M, which as we mentioned previously is better than Pete's Dragon, Disney's previous August feature adaptation of one of its vault classics, plus in a few days stateside will beat the entire global run of the last 2011 feature toon Winnie-the-Pooh ($33.1M). Robin's opening also is in sync with Sony's Peter Rabbit ($25M opening, $115M domestic) and higher than 2015's Paddington ($18.9M, $76.2M domestic). The studio's Marvel Black Panther finally hit $700M after 25 weekends in the theater, and ranks as not only the highest MCU movie ever at the domestic B.O., but the third highest after Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936.6M) and Fox's Avatar ($760.5M).
Disney reports that families repped 60% of Christopher Robin's business this weekend, however PostTrak shows that it's adults leading the way with 55% general, 30% kids, and 15% parents. When you back out the $1.5M Thursday previews from Robin's $9.4M Friday (hence $7.9M), Saturday was slightly up for the Disney pic at 9%, but not in the way that Pete's Dragon spiked (it didn't have previews) between its Friday-to-Saturday at +21% and Peter Rabbit which saw an enormous +97% surge in its first days, also sans Thursday previews. Again, whether it's the kids or parents leading the charge here, Christopher Robin is a feather in Disney's extension of its estimated $6 billion Winnie the Pooh universe.
Lionsgate is reporting a blase $12.3M for the R-Rated female action comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me. The pic cost around $40M with more than half the budget funded by foreign sales. The Hitman's Bodyguard, Spy Who Dumped is not. That movie Ryan Reynolds-Samuel L. Jackson summer comedy opened to $21.5M and legged out to $75.4M last summer. Typically Lionsgate will preview the summer titles they're excited about at CinemaCon, re: Hitman's Bodyguard, so when they showed up this spring without an early cut for Spy Who Dumped Me, we had our suspicions (that said, the comedy's stars Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis were certainly there promoting onstage). And Fox's YA feature The Darkest Minds is encountering the darkest ticket sales of the weekend's wide entries with $5.8M. We deconstructed in the previous update what went sideways here: They're both been-there-done-that titles in their execution Dumped too similar to Paul Feig's Spy and Darkest Minds far too similar to X-Men. In this parched era for pure live-action comedies at the box office, Universal's Blockers has the best opening to date in 2018 with $20.5M, while New Line's Game Night is the highest cume wise with $69M. There is an argument to made that Deadpool 2, though being a superhero movie first, is technically the best comedy given that it's a hysterical hybrid ($125.5M opening, $318M domestic).
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