RankTitleDomestic Gross (Weekend)Worldwide Gross (Cume)Week #Percentage ChangeBudget1Spider-Man: Far from Home$93,600,000$580,055,6281N/A$160M2Toy Story 4$34,300,000$649,957,5443-42.5%$200M3Yesterday$10,750,000$56,982,7402-36.8%$26M4Annabelle Comes Home$9,750,000$134,757,3972-51.9%$15M5Aladdin (2019)$7,600,000$921,689,6167-24.9%$183M* numbers are for the three-day weekend. Spider-Man: Far From Home opened on Tuesday so this does not represent the full $185M it made in the 6 day opening slotNotable Box Office StoriesSpider-Man: Far From Home - The 2019 summer blues continue for other studios but that lovely, never done anything wrong, not terrifying monopoly Disney continues to be not feel the summer heat as Spider-Man: Far From Home opened well over the July 4th holiday weekend, opening to $185M domestic for its 6 day release. It beat previous Spider-Man incarnation The Amazing Spider-Man for biggest Tuesday opening with $39.2M and almost scored the biggest July 4th with its $93.6M 3 day haul coming just under Transformers: Dark of the Moon's $97.8M haul. Overseas the film is doing quite well, scoring almost $400M after opening in three major Asian markets last weekend (China, South Korea and Japan) while it opened in all major markets except Italy (we are still salty about Italian Spider-man jokes I guess) this weekend. As per usual the pack was led by China where it's grossed a healthy $167M in that country so far. It will be interesting to see how the film drops as Spider-Man: Homecoming had one of the worst drops of the MCU with a 62.2% drop for its second weekend. The reviews and Cinemascore are practically the same for Homecoming so Far From Home could face the same drop, though Homecoming did end with a pretty good 2.85x multiplier so even with a big second weekend did Far From Home should end up doing just fine.Spider-Man: Far From Home (cont.) - In terms of the MCU, Spider-Man is in a very strange state. As the shared custody child of Daddy Disney and Step-Mom Sony it's a weird thing where Disney sets up Spider-Man solo films with these major appearances in huge crossover movies like Captain America: Civil War and the Avengers Thanos Duology and then Sony comes in with all that hype and some truly awful posters and reaps a major payday. It works for now but it gets odder when Far From Home is such a notable epilogue to the first full arc of the MCU yet all the money goes to Sony. Far From Home feels like an MCU film. It has many references to previous non-Spidey MCU films. Yet notably its very premise is extremely sweaty in a way I can't describe for fear of the spoiler cops and their many cancelled guns. That sharing seems to be working but as Spidey becomes more important in the Feige infinity gauntlet of valuable IP while Sony desperately tries to get the Me and the Boys solo movie off the ground it will continue to be a strained relationship until Disney of course devours Sony and becomes the Akira style kaiju nightmare it dreams of.Midsommar - There's a certain A24 horror film release strategy I love which is basically "release it wide before people know it's weird". And they certainly tried with Midsommar, which opened not great but okay enough at #6 with $10.8M for its five day haul. The film by Ari Aster is the immediate follow-up to last year's critical darling Hereditary which put Ari on the scene as a master horror maker and ruiner of so many a date night. Fun fact, I saw Midsommar next to a teenager and his parents who I will say were troopers and stayed for the whole thing so parents of the year or most grounded kid ever? Hereditary was a pretty good earner, ending up with almost $80M worldwide which is pretty impressive for a film with the "thanks I hate it" rating of D+ on Cinemascore. In that regard Midsommar did better with a much more improved but still pretty bad C+ on the polling service. It also opened worse than Hereditary, as the 3 day $6.5M of Midsommar's 3 day opening was half of what Hereditary opened to. So a big drop is far worse for this film so one hopes that weirdos will keep this one going. But Midsommar is a tough sell. I loved the movie and even I would not easily recommend it. The opening gave my bf a panic attack (and he loved it too). It's intense and creeping and slow. And it is very long for a horror film. It's not the kind of buzzy, fun, "you have to see this" of an Us or Quiet Place. With a $10M budget I think Aster will be fine and A24 will continue to fund his mania. But don't expect a lot of people to continue to blindly go see his movies besides absolute maniacs like me.Films Reddit Wants to FollowThis is a segment where we keep a weekly tally of currently showing films that aren't in the Top 5 that fellow redditors want updates on. If you'd like me to add a film to this chart, make a comment in this thread.TitleDomestic Gross (Weekly)Domestic Gross (Cume)Worldwide Gross (Cume)BudgetWeek #Avengers: Endgame$8,981,672$847,862,833$2,772,462,833$356M11Pokémon Detective Pikachu$616,291$142,692,041$427,492,041$150M9John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum$4,863,561$165,253,649$311,253,649$55M8Dark Phoenix$2,313,439$64,637,317$245,742,317$200M5Notable Film ClosingsTitleDomestic Gross (Cume)Worldwide Gross (Cume)BudgetCaptain Marvel$426,829,839$1,128,267,209$152MLong Shot$30,316,271$46,514,981$40MBreakthrough$40,713,082$50,444,358$14MAs always r/boxoffice is a great place to share links and other conversations about box office news.Also you can see the archive of all Box Office Week posts at r/moviesboxoffice (which have recently been updated).My Letterboxd: https://ift.tt/2Q79jjT via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2XxJpFu
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