| Weekend Box Office Estimates June 21st-23rd (UPDATED WITH ACTUALS) 🔺 = New or Expanding / ★ = Highly Recommended |
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| W I D E |
PLATFORM / SPECIALTY TITLES |
 Toy Story 4 |
 Last Black Man in San Francisco |
| 1 🔺 Toy Story 4 $120.9 *NEW* on 4575 screens |
1🔺 The Dead Don't Die $1.1 (cum. $4.7) on 690 screens REVIEW |
| 2 🔺 Child's Play $14 *NEW* on 3007 screens REVIEW |
2 🔺 Pavarotti $431k (cum. $1) on 135 screens |
| 3 Aladdin $13.2 (cum. $288.5) on 3435 screens REVIEW, 1992 RETROSPECTIVE |
3 🔺 The Last Black Man in San Francisco $410k (cum. $1.3) on 72 screens REVIEW ★ |
| 4 Men in Black International $10.7 (cum. $52.6) on 4224 screens REVIEW |
4 🔺 Echo in the Canyon $225k (cum. 1.1) on 81 screens |
| 5 Secret Life of Pets 2 $10.2 (cum. $117.5) on 3804 screens REVIEW |
5 Biggest Little Farm $164k (cum. $3.2) on 134 screens |
| 6 Rocketman $5.6 (cum. $77.2) on 2414 screens REVIEW ★ |
6 🔺 Wild Rose $52k *NEW* on 4 screens |
What did you see this week?
• True to the overstated but possibly real 'franchise fatigue' of summer 2019, Toy Story 4 opened lower than both studio and analyst's expectations though $118 million is still a hefty opening tally, and the third best of the year (Disney has the top four openings all to themselves). Meanwhile Child's Play also fell short of expectations continuing the trend. If only some original film would break out we could view it as people being tired of sequels and franchises, but it's probably not that as they're not seeking out anything new instead. Speaking of franchise fatigue, Godzilla: King of Monsters managed to inch over the $100 million mark this weekend. But with a budget of $170 million (not including P&A) that's still rough waters for the iconic kaiju to swim in.
• In platform releases, The Last Black Man in San Francisco and the music docs Echo in the Canyon and Pavarotti continued to do well all three crossing the $1 million mark this weekend.
• The new titles not listed above included Anna, earning $3.6 million its opening weekend, the documentaries Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, A Bigger Splash (a rerelease of the art doc classic) and The Quiet One earning $48k, $18k, and $10k respectively.