Pixar will certainly be happy with their latest box office results, as they see their biggest opening in almost a decade for one of their originals. To catch us up, we have Brandon Blake, the entertainment lawyer Los Angeles with Blake & Wang P.A.
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Hoppers was also the main success at the box office for the weekend, bringing in $46M, with a total haul of $88M globally over a nicely synergistic 88 markets. That was finally enough to topple their release of Coco in 2017, which has been the best-performing original title for them to date.
It will be welcome news to Pixar itself, which has slipped from the animation world’s darling to a much harder sell in recent years. Other than their franchise offerings, like Inside Out 2, we’ve seen a spate of lackluster theatrical releases from them of late.
Scream Beats Out the Bride
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In another surprising result, while The Bride! Didn’t see the theatrical success it was expected to on its debut weekend, bringing in only $7.3M domestically for a total of $13M, Scream 7 is finding a warmer on-screen welcome than you would think from critical feedback. Although there was a notable falloff for its second weekend, it still successfully brought in another $15.6M, bringing its cume globally to just short of $150M.
Hoppers may have been the only title in the top 3 to really make a splash this weekend, but it was certainly the best kind of splash to make. There are a few things that have contributed to its success so far, including a deal to run the film on IMAX screens for daytime viewing. Interestingly, there was a large percentage of teens, younger adults, and even older adults going to see the film as well, so it has successfully escaped being branded a family-only title. Perhaps the Pixar magic is, once again, on its way up.
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