Jurassic World continues to dominate at the box office despite new films opening in theaters week after week.
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Update (July 6): Not so fast! The weekend actuals are now in and they’re telling a different story than the estimates did on Sunday. Inside Out actually beat Jurassic World by a $600,000 hair — Pixar’s latest made $29.8 million while Universal’s dinosaur reboot/sequel made $29.2 million. This means that Jurassic World “only” had a three-week #1 streak. Clearly it was a close race! (via Box Office Mojo)
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Original story (July 5): The dinosaurs ruled for their fourth weekend in a row, pulling in $43.8 million over the 4th of July holiday domestically and bringing Jurassic World’s box office total up to $1.385 billion worldwide. That numbers makes the film the fifth highest-grossing movie of all time, pushing this summer’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron down to sixth place.
The next film on Indominus Rex’s kill list is Furious 7 which is in fourth place at $1.511 billion. And in third, the original Avengers is not too far ahead with its $1.518 billion. At the rate Jurassic World is going, it’s looking like the film is going to continue to tear up the record books.
Meanwhile, Pixar’s Inside Out scored second place over the holiday weekend with a pull of $30.1 million. In terms of the studio’s slate, Inside Out is Pixar’s seventh highest-grossing film — This weekend’s performance pushed Inside Out to $246 million domestically, passing Toy Story 2’s $245 million pull. The movie will likely pass by Monsters, Inc.’s $255 million in the weeks ahead.
This weekend’s two new films both underperformed. The latest Terminator film titled Genisys brought in a disappointing $28.7 million while Magic Mike XXL went limp with only $11.6 million. Those numbers climb to $44.1 million and $26.6 million respectively when you add in their five-day totals (they opened last Wednesday).
Both sequels suffered the same fate as last week’s new sequel Ted 2 — moviegoers preferred checking out Jurassic World and Inside Out rather than seeing one of the new offerings. The Ted sequel, by the way, added $11 million to its box office total this weekend.