BOX OFFICE REPORT
July 10-12, 2015(estimates from BoxOfficeMojo.com)
TOP 51. Ant-Man ($58.0 million)2. Minnions ($50.2 million)3. Trainwreck ($30.2 million)4. Inside Out ($11.6 million)5. Jurassic World ($11.4 million)
It was a battle of epic proportions among the smallest contenders. Ant-Man took the crown, but narrowly. With an estimated $58 million, that's the lowest opening for a Marvel movie since 2008's The Incredible Hulk. Still, that means that since Iron Man kicked off summer 2008, every entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has opened in the top spot.
Minions continued their reign of terror with another $50.2 million over the weekend. It's already made more than $200 million since its debut, which in this gargantuan summer doesn't seem quite as impressive. Its animated competition Inside Out, has also passed $300 million. By the end of its run, that film will be the No. 2 Pixar flick behind only Toy Story 3.
Trainwreck, despite opening in third place, was anything but. Its $30 million is a big improvement over Judd Apatow's last outings "“ This is 40 and Funny People "“ and proves that Amy Schumer is a bankable lead actress. Meanwhile, Jurassic World became only the fourth movie to cross the $600 million mark in North America. In the next two weeks, it should pass The Avengers for its final position. (There's no way it's passing Titanic.)
Outside the top 5: - This Weekend's Indie Champ: Irrational Man, the latest from Woody Allen. The comedy made $37,600 on each of its five screens.
- Another week, another massive Indian opening. Bajrangi Bhaijaan, about a mute Pakistani girl and her Indian protector, averaged an astonishing $9,473 on 256 screens.
- This week in funny facts: Unless it's an error, Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino, earned only $18 this weekend on exactly 18 screens, which gave it a dubious $1 per screen average.
Next week: Three wide releases, all with very different intended audiences, will duke it out. There's Paper Towns, based on the novel by the author of The Fault in Our Stars; Southpaw, a gritty boxing drama from the creator of Sons of Anarchy; and Pixels, which brings together all the "˜80s video game characters you loved in a shameless exercise in nostalgia. Any of these could top the charts, but I'm going with $40 million and the win for Pixels, since its advertising has been relentless.
