Arnold Can’t Overpower Dinosaurs or Your Inner Emotions

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BOX OFFICE REPORT 

June 3-5, 2015(estimates from BoxOfficeMojo.com)

TOP 51. Jurassic World (30.9 million)2. Inside Out ($30.1 million)3. Terminator Genisys ($28.7 million)4. Magic Mike XXL ($11.6 million)5. Ted 2 ($11.0 million)

Like the mega-sized dinosaurs at the park, Jurassic World's feast on the box office scraps has continued unabated. For the fourth weekend in a row, the film took first place. It's now one of only four movies to pass $550 million in North America. It also beat Avengers: Age of Ultron to crack the Top 5 of all time internationally. It just has Furious 7 and the first Avengers to go to be the biggest movie ever not directed by James Cameron.

That means Inside Out still hasn't hit No. 1. But in just three weekends, it's already become the highest-grossing movie ever not to reach that mark. That beats a record held for 13 years by My Big Fat Greek Wedding. $300 million might still be in reach, which would put it just behind Toy Story 3 and Finding Nemo in the Pixar stable. But it will face stiff competition from Minions next week. 

Terminator: Genisys came up just short to be the No. 1 movie, but there's not really any reason to celebrate. That's the lowest opening since the first one in 1984. Even Judgment Day, back in 1991, had a bigger debut. Magic Mike XXL also experienced a deflated ego, opening at just a fraction of what the original opened to in 2012. But hey, at least it did better than Ted 2.

Outside the top 5: - This Weekend's Indie Champ: Amy, the documentary about the late R&B singer Amy Winehouse. The controversial film averaged $37,000 on six screens.

- Audiences did not have faith in Faith of Our Fathers. The Christian drama only made $622,000 on 344 screens.

- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, one of the summer's best films, is now playing in wide release. It saw its weekend gross increase by a third. The dramedy has made $4 million so far, but It deserves even more. Go see it. 

Next week: As if they hadn't invaded your Facebook pages enough, Minions are coming to take over the box office. The Despicable Me spinoff will finally give us a new No. 1. Your tiny yellow overlords are coming and will make at least $65 million. The Gallows and whatever the hell Self/Less is (I've seen that commercial a dozen times and I still can't make any sense of it) won't stand a chance.

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About Kip Mooney

Kip Mooney
Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about. I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague. Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work. In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo. I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.

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