Weekend Actuals: Spider-Man: Far From Home Repeats at No. 1 w/ $45.3M; Crawl Eats Up $12.0M; Stuber Stalls Out w/ $8.2M

Monday Update: Sony’s superhero sequel Spider-Man: Far From Home repeated atop the box office again with $45.3M.

Dropping -51% in its sophomore weekend, its decline was much milder than the -62% sophomore weekend plummet for predecessor Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Paramount’s thriller Crawl began in third place with $12.0M, in line with pre-release projections.

Fox’s action comedy Stuber opened in fourth place with $8.2M, below most pre-release projections.

A24’s dramedy The Farewell started with $355,662 in four theaters. Its $88,916 per-theater average is the best of 2019 so far, and the highest since The Favourite with $105,603 last November.

Comparisons

Total box office this weekend was $126.5M.

That’s -31.1% below last weekend and -23.8% below this same weekend last year, when Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation led with $44.0M.

Year-to-date box office stands at $6.20B. That’s -8.6% behind this same date last year, down from -8.4% after last weekend.

Some analysts still predict 2019’s box office will ultimately beat 2018’s, on the strength of a strong upcoming slate of anticipated blockbusters, including The Lion King, Frozen II, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.


Monday’s Weekend Actuals (Domestic)

FRI, JUL. 12 – SUN, JUL. 14

WIDE (1000+)

# TITLE WEEKEND   LOCATIONS   AVG. TOTAL WKS. DIST.
1 Spider-Man: Far from Home $45,353,359 -51% 4,634 0 $9,787 $274,582,664 2 Sony / Columbia
2 Toy Story 4 $20,945,639 -38% 4,210 -330 $4,975 $346,650,213 4 Disney
3 Crawl $12,005,210 3,170 $3,787 $12,005,210 1 Paramount Pictures
4 Stuber $8,225,384 3,050 $2,697 $8,225,384 1 20th Century Fox
5 Yesterday $6,708,055 -33% 2,755 141 $2,435 $48,274,580 3 Universal Pictures
6 Aladdin $6,173,124 -18% 2,557 -201 $2,414 $331,789,844 8 Disney
7 Annabelle Comes Home $5,622,042 -41% 3,209 -404 $1,752 $60,832,476 3 Warner Bros.
8 Midsommar $3,667,722 -42% 2,707 0 $1,355 $18,522,993 2 A24
9 The Secret Life of Pets 2 $3,205,795 -31% 2,320 -526 $1,382 $147,242,980 6 Universal
10 Men in Black: International $2,218,592 -41% 1,612 -1104 $1,376 $76,487,189 5 Sony / Columbia
11 Avengers: Endgame $2,104,276 -33% 1,443 -542 $1,458 $851,612,415 12 Disney
12 Rocketman $1,685,106 -35% 1,332 -77 $1,265 $91,960,016 7 Paramount Pictures
13 John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum $1,334,416 -37% 1,145 -348 $1,165 $167,498,132 9 Lionsgate

LIMITED (100 — 999)

# TITLE WEEKEND   LOCATIONS   AVG. TOTAL WKS. DIST.
1 Super 30 $870,726 317 $2,747 $870,726 1 Reliance Entertainment
2 Child’s Play $590,970 -60% 807 -900 $732 $28,416,486 4 United Artists Releasing
3 Godzilla: King of the Monsters $458,536 -43% 434 -287 $1,057 $109,191,018 7 Warner Bros.
4 The Last Black Man in San Francisco $360,256 -17% 207 19 $1,740 $3,335,440 6 A24
5 Shaft $335,985 -49% 303 -136 $1,109 $20,714,893 5 Warner Bros.
6 Late Night $328,816 -41% 330 -63 $996 $14,801,011 6 Amazon Studios
7 Wild Rose $296,146 41% 161 98 $1,839 $757,793 4 Neon
8 Pavarotti $278,255 -39% 196 -54 $1,420 $3,523,819 6 CBS Films
9 Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable $241,740 205 $1,179 $241,740 1 Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures
10 Dark Phoenix $197,992 -55% 200 -226 $990 $65,081,358 6 Fox
11 Booksmart $175,601 -24% 160 0 $1,098 $21,995,342 8 United Artists Releasing
12 POKÉMON Detective Pikachu $164,173 -27% 207 -40 $793 $143,395,333 10 Warner Bros.
13 Ma (2019) $104,080 -41% 152 -45 $685 $45,315,550 7 Universal Pictures
14 The Dead Don’t Die $93,435 -50% 142 -125 $658 $6,504,595 5 Focus Features
15 A Dog’s Journey $51,495 -13% 111 -5 $464 $22,499,185 9 Universal Pictures

PLATFORM (1 — 99)

# TITLE WEEKEND   LOCATIONS   AVG. TOTAL WKS. DIST.
1 The Farewell $355,662 4 $88,916 $355,662 1 A24
2 Unplanned $352,510 49 $7,194 $18,461,462 16 Pure Flix
3 Maiden $218,328 67% 68 44 $3,211 $478,214 3 Sony Pictures Classics
4 I Got the Hook-Up 2 $143,300 37 $3,873 $143,300 1 RLJE FilmsUrban Movie Channel
5 The Art of Self-Defense $114,374 7 $16,339 $114,374 1 Bleecker Street
6 Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love $110,954 147% 30 26 $3,698 $178,191 2 Roadside Attractions
7 The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith $100,622 -43% 97 -82 $1,037 $1,228,832 3 ArtAffects Entertainment
8 The Biggest Little Farm $91,721 -31% 99 -8 $926 $3,939,943 10 Neon
9 Anna $77,083 -60% 92 -232 $838 $7,490,674 4 Lionsgate / Summit
10 Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am $67,323 -17% 59 11 $1,141 $362,588 4 Magnolia Pictures
11 Shazam! $53,531 -18% 83 -21 $645 $140,293,925 15 Warner Bros.
12 Dumbo $45,718 -26% 92 -11 $497 $114,635,337 16 Walt Disney Pictures
13 The Cure: Anniversary 1978 – 2018 Live in Hyde Park $38,761 83 $467 $356,953 2 Trafalgar Releasing
14 Sword of Trust $19,332 2 $9,666 $19,332 1 IFC Films
15 The Souvenir $17,504 -13% 27 13 $648 $1,016,562 9 A24
16 Rojo $12,479 2 $6,240 $12,479 1 Distrib Films
17 The Fall of The American Empire $10,890 79% 35 26 $311 $2,836,047 55 Sony Pictures Classics
18 The Other Story $10,185 -2% 7 0 $1,455 $55,650 3 Strand Releasing
19 All Is True $9,487 -22% 17 -6 $558 $1,171,166 10 Sony Pictures Classics
20 Last Year at Marienbad (2019 re-issue) $9,402 5 $1,880 $47,751 9 Rialto Pictures
21 Paris Is Burning (2019 re-issue) $8,520 -21% 4 -2 $2,130 $102,885 5 Janus Films
22 Hampstead $7,016 -36% 13 2 $540 $95,031 5 IFC Films
23 Long Day’s Journey Into Night $6,002 132% 3 0 $2,001 $466,650 14 Kino Lorber
24 Christ Stopped at Eboli $5,432 461% 2 1 $2,716 $55,649 15 Rialto Pictures
25 Apollo 11 $4,805 138% 15 10 $320 $8,941,416 20 Neon
26 The Chambermaid $4,574 -68% 4 0 $1,144 $58,365 3 Kino Lorber
27 Amazing Grace $4,040 5% 14 -4 $289 $4,444,399 15 Neon
28 Framing John Delorean $3,892 -69% 10 -16 $389 $138,287 6 IFC Films
29 Walking On Water $3,299 62% 5 1 $660 $93,004 9 Kino Lorber
30 The Third Wife $3,239 -28% 3 -1 $1,080 $75,114 9 Film Movement
31 Babylon $3,197 2 $1,599 $104,013 19 Kino Lorber Films
32 In the Aisles $2,984 79% 6 3 $497 $16,658 5 Music Box Films
33 Non-Fiction $2,736 -52% 6 -6 $456 $695,818 11 IFC Films
34 The White Crow $2,381 -60% 10 -14 $238 $1,811,052 12 Sony Pictures Classics
35 The Quiet One $2,360 -63% 13 1 $182 $32,611 4 IFC Films IFC Films
36 Chasing the Dragon 2: Wild Wild Bunch $2,307 -57% 1 -1 $2,307 $194,566 6 Well Go USA
37 Halston $2,054 3 $685 $141,770 8 1091
38 The Queen (2019 re-release) $1,888 -53% 1 0 $1,888 $23,330 3 Kino Lorber
39 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché $1,802 -5% 6 0 $300 $75,763 13 Zeitgeist Films
40 American Woman $1,722 -67% 6 -1 $287 $235,083 5 Roadside Attractions / Vertical Entertainment
41 Shadow $1,679 -40% 3 1 $560 $512,225 11 Well Go USA Entertainment
42 Meeting Gorbachev $1,588 5 $318 $240,743 11 1091
43 Dogman $1,323 -69% 5 -2 $265 $146,475 14 Magnolia PicturesMagnolia Pictures
44 The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil $1,247 -22% 1 0 $1,247 $213,414 6 Well Go USA Entertainment
45 Diamantino $1,209 9% 2 -3 $605 $62,622 8 Kino Lorber
46 The Man Who Killed Don Quixote $1,130 2 $565 $391,963 14 Screen Media
47 Yomeddine $667 2 $334 $8,140 7 Strand Releasing
48 Rafiki $630 -8% 3 1 $210 $134,992 13 Film Movement
49 Pasolini $468 -44% 1 0 $468 $29,509 10 Kino Lorber
50 Grass $63 1 $63 $7,447 13 Cinema Guild
51 The Wandering Soap Opera $44 76% 1 0 $44 $2,555 9 Cinema Guild

Sunday Update: With no new major competition in the marketplace, Spider-Man: Far From Home easily swung back into the top spot at the box office in its second weekend with an estimated $45.3 million, a drop of 51% from its $92.5 million three-day opening. Elsewhere, Toy Story 4 remained strong in second place while new wide openers Crawl and Stuber debuted to mixed results.

With a fantastic $274.5 million in its first 13 days of release, Far From Home is currently pacing about 18% ahead of its its predecessor Spider-Man: Homecoming, which had $225.2 million by the same point. That comparison isn’t entirely fair, however, given that Far From Home got an early Tuesday start over the 4th of July holiday week, an advantage Homecoming didn’t enjoy. In terms of the MCU overall, Far From Home currently stands as the 15th highest-grossing title in the superhero franchise, having surpassed Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($259.7 million) on Sunday.

Second place went to Toy Story 4, another blockbuster holdover that benefitted from no new direct competition (a scenario that will change drastically next weekend with the release of Disney’s sure-to-be-massive live-action remake of The Lion King). Dropping roughly 39% to an estimated $20.7 million, the third sequel in the long-running Pixar franchise now stands at $346.4 million through the end of its fourth weekend, pacing it 2% ahead of 2010’s Toy Story 3 (though adjusted for inflation, it’s actually running a bit behind its predecessor). Toy Story 4 is now the fifth highest-grossing Pixar release of all time, just behind Inside Out ($356.4 million) and just ahead of Finding Nemo, which brought in $339.7 million way back in 2003 (which would be around $473 million in today’s dollars). 

The alligator thriller Crawl debuted in third place with an estimated $12 million, putting it in similar territory to the shark thriller 47 Meters Down, which opened with $11.2 million in June 2017. The Paramount release, which debuted in 3,170 locations, boasts surprisingly strong reviews for a genre film, with an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Based on its 76% Audience Score on RT, audiences also seem to be enjoying it, which likely helped propel its box office this weekend. With a budget of just $13.5 million, this one is already looking like a profitable venture for the studio.

Fourth place went to the weekend’s other new wide release Stuber, which brought in a rather disappointing $8 million from 3,050 locations. The buddy comedy starring Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista garnered mixed reviews (it has a 47% on Rotten Tomatoes), while audiences gave it an okay “B” CinemaScore. A common comp for this one has been last summer’s Tag, another R-rated male-driven comedy, though that film fared much better with an opening weekend of $14.9 million on its way to a $54.7 million total in North America.

Universal’s sleeper hit Yesterday continued strong in fifth place with an estimated $6.7 million, a drop of just 33% from its sophomore frame. The musical rom-com now has a very good $48.3 million after 17 days of release.

Also holding remarkably well was Disney’s Aladdin, which brought in an estimated $5.9 million in sixth place, a drop of just 21% from last weekend. That gives the live-action blockbuster a total of $331.5 million through the end of its eighth weekend. It will likely suffer a sharper drop next weekend with the release of Disney stablemate The Lion King.

In seventh, Annabelle Comes Home grossed $5.5 million in its third weekend, giving the horror threequel $60.7 million to date. Just behind it was the A24 horror film Midsommar, which dipped 46% to $3.5 million in its second weekend for an $18.6 million total after ten days of release.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Universal’s The Secret Life of Pets 2 and Sony’s Men in Black: International, which brought in an estimated $3.1 million and $2.2 million in their sixth and fifth weekends, respectively. The total for the animated sequel now stands at $147.1 million, while the sci-fi comedy reboot has $ million to date.

Limited Release:

A24’s The Farewell had a sensational debut this weekend, with the comedy-drama starring Crazy Rich Asians breakout Awkwafina grossing $351K from just four locations for a per-screen average of over $87K, the highest of the year so far. The film, which will expand to further top markets over the next couple of weekends before going wide of August 2, currently boasts a perfect 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Overseas Update:

The Lion King got off to a solid early start in China with an estimated $54.1 million ahead of its U.S. release. As Disney notes, that’s a higher opening total in the country than Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast or The Jungle Book.

Spider-Man: Far From Home took in an estimated $100 million overseas this weekend, bringing its international total to $572.5 million, which Sony notes is the highest tally of any Spider-Man film to date. The MCU title’s worldwide total now stands at a whopping $847 million after just 17 days and it will soon surpass Spider-Man: Homecoming, which finished its global run with $880.1 million. The highest-performing overseas markets are China ($191.8 million), Korea ($49.7 million), the U.K. ($28.6 million) and Mexico ($24.1 million).

Toy Story 4 grossed an estimated $48.1 million in 45 markets this weekend, bringing its international cume to $424.7 million and its global total to $771.1 million to date. The highest-grossing territory currently is Mexico with a huge $66.1 million, followed by the U.K. at $53.7 million and China with $28.6 million.

Annabelle Comes Home had a solid third weekend internationally, bringing in an estimated $18.1 million from 78 markets. The WB release’s overseas tally now stands at $112.8 million (nearly twice what it’s brought in Stateside), while it’s brought in $173.6 million globally.

Aladdin took in $14.6 million overseas for an international total of $628.7 million and a worldwide tally of $960.2 million. The film has brought in a massive $88.1 million in Japan, $73.7 million in Korea and $53.3 million in China.


Sunday’s Studio Weekend Estimates (Domestic)

FRI, JUL. 12 – SUN, JUL. 14

WIDE (1000+)

# TITLE WEEKEND   LOCATIONS   AVG. TOTAL WKS. DIST.
1 Spider-Man: Far from Home $45,300,000 -51% 4,634 0 $9,776 $274,529,305 2 Sony / Columbia
2 Toy Story 4 $20,665,000 -39% 4,210 -330 $4,909 $346,369,574 4 Disney
3 Crawl $12,000,000 3,170 $3,785 $12,000,000 1 Paramount Pictures
4 Stuber $8,043,000 3,050 $2,637 $8,043,000 1 20th Century Fox
5 Yesterday $6,750,000 -33% 2,755 141 $2,450 $48,316,525 3 Universal Pictures
6 Aladdin $5,873,000 -22% 2,557 -201 $2,297 $331,489,720 8 Disney
7 Annabelle Comes Home $5,550,000 -41% 3,209 -404 $1,730 $60,760,434 3 Warner Bros.
8 Midsommar $3,551,571 -44% 2,707 0 $1,312 $18,406,842 2 A24
9 The Secret Life of Pets 2 $3,100,000 -34% 2,320 -526 $1,336 $147,137,185 6 Universal
10 Men in Black: International $2,215,000 -41% 1,612 -1104 $1,374 $76,483,597 5 Sony / Columbia
11 Rocketman $1,700,000 -35% 1,332 -77 $1,276 $91,974,910 7 Paramount Pictures
12 Avengers: Endgame $1,692,000 -46% 1,443 -542 $1,173 $851,200,139 12 Disney
13 John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum $1,375,000 -35% 1,145 -348 $1,201 $167,538,716 9 Lionsgate

LIMITED (100 — 999)

# TITLE WEEKEND   LOCATIONS   AVG. TOTAL WKS. DIST.
1 Super 30 $923,912 317 $2,915 $923,912 1 Reliance Entertainment
2 Child’s Play $561,862 -62% 807 -900 $696 $28,387,378 4 United Artists Releasing
3 The Last Black Man in San Francisco $361,613 -16% 207 19 $1,747 $3,336,797 6 A24
4 Late Night $334,642 -40% 330 -63 $1,014 $14,806,837 6 Amazon Studios
5 Wild Rose $294,000 40% 161 98 $1,826 $755,647 4 Neon
6 Pavarotti $255,000 -44% 196 -54 $1,301 $3,500,564 6 CBS Films
7 Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable $250,000 205 $1,220 $250,000 1 Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures
8 Dark Phoenix $189,000 -57% 200 -226 $945 $65,072,366 6 Fox
9 Ma (2019) $101,000 -43% 152 -45 $664 $45,312,470 7 Universal Pictures
10 A Dog’s Journey $48,000 -19% 111 -5 $432 $22,495,690 9 Universal Pictures

PLATFORM (1 — 99)

# TITLE WEEKEND   LOCATIONS   AVG. TOTAL WKS. DIST.
1 The Farewell $351,330 4 $87,833 $351,330 1 A24
2 Unplanned $345,000 49 $7,041 $18,453,952 16 Pure Flix
3 Maiden $224,328 71% 68 44 $3,299 $484,214 3 Sony Pictures Classics
4 I Got the Hook-Up 2 $143,300 37 $3,873 $143,300 1 RLJE FilmsUrban Movie Channel
5 The Art of Self-Defense $121,080 7 $17,297 $121,080 1 Bleecker Street
6 Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love $110,160 145% 30 26 $3,672 $177,397 2 Roadside Attractions
7 The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith $101,000 -43% 97 -82 $1,041 $1,229,210 3 ArtAffects Entertainment
8 The Biggest Little Farm $76,125 -42% 99 -8 $769 $3,924,347 10 Neon
9 Anna $68,800 -64% 92 -232 $748 $7,482,391 4 Lionsgate / Summit
10 Dumbo $51,000 -17% 92 -11 $554 $114,640,619 16 Walt Disney Pictures
11 Sword of Trust $22,512 2 $11,256 $22,512 1 IFC Films
12 The Souvenir $17,575 -13% 25 11 $703 $1,016,633 9 A24
13 Amazing Grace $4,100 6% 14 -4 $293 $4,444,457 15 Neon
14 Apollo 11 $2,375 18% 15 10 $158 $8,932,048 20 Neon
15 Halston $2,166 3 $722 $141,882 8 1091
16 Meeting Gorbachev $1,549 5 $310 $240,704 11 1091

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