Incredibles 2 has 'staggering' start

The Parr family, also known as The Incredibles, returned after 14 years in Incredibles 2 . It dominated last weekend’s box office, landing it in first place with a haul of about $183 million.
The Parr family, also known as The Incredibles, returned after 14 years in Incredibles 2 . It dominated last weekend’s box office, landing it in first place with a haul of about $183 million.

LOS ANGELES -- The Pixar superhero movie Incredibles 2 made 14 years of anticipation worth the wait for Disney, as the follow-up to 2004's The Incredibles smashed the record for highest animation debut of all time with about $183 million in ticket sales for U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to the measurement firm ComScore.

Warner Bros. debuted Tag in third place. It earned about $15 million, on par with analysts' predictions of $13 million to $15 million.

Tag, released under Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema division, is an R-rated comedy about a group of friends who play an extreme version of the classic schoolyard game. The film received mixed reviews from audiences and critics, earning a B-plus on CinemaScore and 56 percent rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Featuring Jon Hamm and Jeremy Renner, the film cost an estimated $28 million to make.

In fourth place: Disney's Solo: A Star Wars Story, now in its fifth weekend. It added $10 million in earnings -- a moderate 42 percent drop despite losing more than 1,100 locations -- for a to-date total of about $194 million. The record numbers for Incredibles 2 alleviate some of the sting the studio is still feeling over Solo;

Rounding out the top five, Fox's Deadpool 2, now in its sixth week, added $8.7 million for a cumulative $294.5 million.

Columbia's Superfly remake opened at No. 6 with $6.8 million after debuting June 13 for a cumulative $9 million.

A modern update to the 1972 blaxploitation film, Superfly cost an estimated $16 million to make but failed to meet analysts' predictions of $10 million to $12 million. The film earned a B-plus rating on CinemaScore and a 54 percent rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

A24's Hereditary, the horror film starring Toni Collette that has sharply divided critics and moviegoers, was bumped from the top five to No. 7 in its second weekend. The low-budget film, written and directed by Ari Aster, added about $7 million in ticket sales (a 48 percent drop, respectable for the horror genre) to reach a cumulative $27 million.

Vertical Entertainment premiered Gotti to disappointing results. The film, directed by Kevin Connolly and starring John Travolta as the mobster, gets a 0 percent rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes and earned just $1.7 million across 503 locations.

In limited release, Focus Features' breakout Mr. Rogers documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? earned $985,000 in 96 locations -- now in its third weekend -- for a total gross of $1.7 million.

This week, Universal premieres the action movie Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The film has already posted a $111 million opening in China as well as $173.6 million in 51 territories for an international total of $370 million to date.

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. Incredibles 2, Disney, $182,687,905, 4,410 locations, $41,426 average, $182,687,905, 1 week.
  2. Ocean's 8, Warner Bros., $18,968,184, 4,145 locations, $4,576 average, $78,588,354, 2 weeks.
  3. Tag, Warner Bros., $14,947,396, 3,382 locations, $4,420 average, $14,947,396, 1 week.
  4. Solo: A Star Wars Story, Disney, $10,001,056, 3,182 locations, $3,143 average, $193,765,143, 4 weeks.
  5. Deadpool 2, 20th Century Fox, $8,681,501, 3,212 locations, $2,703 average, $294,562,309, 5 weeks.
  6. Superfly, Columbia, $6,870,740, 2,220 locations, $3,095 average, $9,012,057, 1 week.
  7. Hereditary, A24, $6,855,063, 2,998 locations, $2,287 average, $27,016,183, 2 weeks.
  8. Avengers: Infinity War, Disney, $5,442,261, 2,164 locations, $2,515 average, $664,346,211, 8 weeks.
  9. Adrift, STX Entertainment, $2,200,333, 1,929 locations, $1,141 average, $26,905,478, 3 weeks.
  10. Book Club, Paramount, $1,827,492, 1,656 locations, $1,104 average, $61,977,585, 5 weeks.
  11. Gotti, Vertical Entertainment, $1,719,902, 503 locations, $3,419 average, $1,719,902, 1 week.
  12. Race 3, Yash Raj Films, $1,690,861, 314 locations, $5,385 average, $1,690,861, 1 week.
  13. A Wrinkle in Time, Disney, $1,678,797, 245 locations, $6,852 average, $99,906,924, 15 weeks.
  14. Hotel Artemis, Open Road, $1,008,109, 2,299 locations, $438 average, $5,821,628, 2 weeks.
  15. Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Focus Features, $1,002,709, 96 locations, $10,445 average, $1,710,413, 2 weeks.
  16. Upgrade, OTL Releasing, $518,330, 646 locations, $802 average, $11,078,295, 3 weeks.
  17. RBG, Magnolia Pictures, $498,234, 288 locations, $1,730 average, $10,116,762, 7 weeks.
  18. Life of the Party, Warner Bros., $448,369, 608 locations, $737 average, $51,850,137, 6 weeks.
  19. Overboard, Lionsgate, $435,447, 581 locations, $749 average, $48,567,231, 7 weeks.
  20. Breaking In, Universal, $431,195, 504 locations, $856 average, $45,170,800, 6 weeks.

MovieStyle on 06/22/2018

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