Disney-Pixar’s Lightyear isn’t quite going supersonic at the box office. The Toy Story spinoff is coming in under expectations in its debut weekend, after a $20.5 million Friday, including $5.2 million from Thursday previews. Going into the weekend, the projections ranged from $70 million and $80 million from 4,255 North American theaters.
Dinosaurs and dads are to blame. Holdover hits Jurassic World Dominion and Top Gun: Maverick are likely eating into Lightyear’s family-friendly demographic, with both films over-performing while the animated spinoff struggles. Lightyear marks Pixar’s return to the big screen after the animation studio’s controversial decision to release its last three films—Soul, Luca, and Turning Red—on the Disney+ streaming platform.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Spinoffs can’t be expected to perform as well as the franchise proper, but one would’ve expected Lightyear to be more Minions than Penguins of Madagascar. By comparison, Toy Story 4 made nearly $121 million in its opening weekend back in 2019, before finishing, like Toy Story 3, with over $1 billion worldwide.
If current projections hold, Jurassic World Dominion could be looking at another top place finish in its second weekend, after vastly exceeding expectations a week ago. With $15.7 million on its second Friday, the film is looking to add at least another $57 million over the next couple of days, a number that could balloon to $66.3 million over the four-day Juneteenth weekend. The film recently crossed the half-billion mark worldwide, despite franchise-low reviews.
With an estimated 23% drop and nearly $11 million on Friday, Top Gun: Maverick is looking at a $40 million fourth weekend, with the projections for the extended weekend going up to $46.5 million. This will take the film’s running domestic total to $468 million, bringing it within touching distance of the half-billion mark stateside. Maverick is already the year’s biggest film domestically, and has made over $800 million worldwide.
Disney screwed themselves on this one... they didn't marketed right, there releasing it in the middle of these other big budget movies and it'll probably be on disney plus in a few months so people probably don't care to waste their money on a animated movie they don't care about
They’re blaming dads here for Father’s Day? Trust me it is moms too. This movie should have made a ton more but families are choosing they want to control the narrative of their kids exposure to things they don’t think they are ready for yet. Just my observation of the situation.
as it should be,no gays allowed in cartoons lmao.
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