Cars 3 smokes Wonder Woman

Jackson Storm (voice of Armie Hammer) and Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) are among the characters in Cars 3. It came in first at last weekend’s box office and made about $53.7 million.
Jackson Storm (voice of Armie Hammer) and Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) are among the characters in Cars 3. It came in first at last weekend’s box office and made about $53.7 million.

LOS ANGELES -- Racing to the top, Walt Disney Co.'s Cars 3 unseated Warner Bros.' Wonder Woman after a two-week box-office reign.

The Pixar film grossed an estimated $53.7 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters in its opening weekend, although it came in well below analyst expectations of $60 million.

Starring Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen, the series follows the ups and downs of a hot-shot race car looking to prove himself. The latest movie also features the voices of Cristela Alonzo, Larry the Cable Guy and Kerry Washington.

In its third week, Wonder Woman landed in second place with about $41.3 million. This brings its domestic gross to date to $275 million.

The weekend's standout, however, is Lionsgate's All Eyez on Me, which debuted to $26.4 million. Though only a third-place finish, it far surpassed analyst expectations of $17 million to $20 million, an unsurprising feat considering the industry's historical inability to properly track films targeting black audiences.

All Eyez on Me is the long-awaited bio-pic about Tupac Shakur, the Harlem-born hip-hop hit maker who, in just 25 years of life, came to define a generation through his music, acting and poetry before that fateful 1996 drive-by shooting. Starring first-time actor Demetrius Shipp Jr., a doppelganger for the California Love rapper, the film is titled after Tupac's final album released before his death. It also stars Danai Gurira as his mother and former Black Panther Afeni Shakur, Kat Graham as Jada Pinkett (Smith) and Annie Ilonzeh as Kidada Jones.

Landing in fourth place, after a disappointing domestic debut last week, was Universal's latest remake of The Mummy. It pulled in $14.5 million over the weekend for a domestic gross to date of $57 million.

Rounding out the top five was newcomer 47 Meters Down, a shark survival thriller, with $11.2 million. It beat analyst expectations that it would sink at the box office with about $5 million in ticket sales.

The movie, starring Mandy Moore and Claire Holt as vacationers in Mexico whose shark cage drops to the ocean floor, was released from Entertainment Studios to poor critical and audience reviews. Moviegoers gave it a C CinemaScore, and it has a 55 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The only other major new release was Columbia's Rough Night, an R-rated ensemble comedy about a group of friends from college who reunite in Miami for a bachelorette party, which goes into cover-up mode after they accidentally kill a male stripper. The $20 million romp, starring Scarlett Johansson and Kate McKinnon, came in at $8 million, good enough for only a seventh-place spot. The film likely won't rebound in the coming weeks, having mustered only a C-plus CinemaScore from audiences and a 51 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore:

1. Cars 3, Disney, $53,688,680, 4,256 locations, $12,615 average, $53,688,680, 1 week.

  1. Wonder Woman, Warner Bros., $41,268,850, 4,018 locations, $10,271 average, $275,095,580, 3 weeks.

  2. All Eyez on Me, Lionsgate, $26,435,354, 2,471 locations, $10,698 average, $26,435,354, 1 week.

  3. The Mummy, Universal, $14,510,960, 4,034 locations, $3,597 average, $57,121,660, 2 weeks.

  4. 47 Meters Down, Entertainment Studios, $11,205,562, 2,270 locations, $4,936 average, $11,205,562, 1 week.

  5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Disney, $8,964,039, 2,759 locations, $3,249 average, $150,572,153, 4 weeks.

  6. Rough Night, Columbia, $8,004,283, 3,162 locations, $2,531 average, $8,004,283, 1 week.

  7. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, 20th Century Fox, $7,181,541, 2,968 locations, $2,420 average, $57,795,201, 3 weeks.

  8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Disney, $5,071,732, 1,813 locations, $2,797 average, $374,942,747, 7 weeks.

  9. It Comes at Night, A24, $2,601,467, 2,450 locations, $1,062 average, $11,124,631, 2 weeks.

  10. Megan Leavey, Bleecker Street, $2,541,645, 1,832 locations, $1,387 average, $8,378,502, 2 weeks.

  11. Baywatch, Paramount, $1,610,987, 1,307 locations, $1,233 average, $55,158,487, 4 weeks.

  12. The Book of Henry, Focus Features, $1,424,540, 579 locations, $2,460 average, $1,424,540, 1 week.

  13. Paris Can Wait, Sony Pictures Classics, $713,931, 447 locations, $1,597 average, $3,195,793, 6 weeks.

  14. Beatriz at Dinner, Roadside Attractions, $702,073, 77 locations, $9,118 average, $906,101, 2 weeks.

  15. Alien: Covenant, 20th Century Fox, $568,149, 400 locations, $1,420 average, $72,754,134, 5 weeks.

  16. My Cousin Rachel, Fox Searchlight, $530,977, 531 locations, $1,000 average, $1,975,140, 2 weeks.

  17. Everything, Everything, Warner Bros., $356,241, 403 locations, $884 average, $33,151,209, 5 weeks.

  18. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, 20th Century Fox, $330,813, 255 locations, $1,297 average, $20,087,808, 5 weeks.

  19. The Boss Baby, 20th Century Fox, $323,442, 260 locations, $1,244 average, $172,492,985, 12 weeks.

MovieStyle on 06/23/2017

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