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Saturday Update: Disney reports this morning that Finding Dory added another $23.2 million to its haul on Friday, easily holding onto first place at the start of its second weekend. Down just 58 percent from last Friday, the week-to-week hold was in line...

Friday Update: Independence Day: Resurgence reportedly hauled in an estimated $4.0 million from last night’s opening shows, marking a modest start for the sequel. By comparison, last year’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation took in $4.0 million, while San Andreas earned $3.1 million and 2014’s Dawn of...

Disney’s Finding Dory had one of the best opening weekends ever for an animated film, as it dominated the box office with $135.06 million. With an opening like that and generally strong holds for Pixar films historically, the movie should have...

Disney’s Finding Dory swam to the best opening weekend ever for an animated film with an estimated $136.2 million this weekend, though after adjusting for ticket price inflation it drops to being the third-highest animated opening behind 2007’s Shrek the Third and 2004’s Shrek 2. The sequel to the...

Disney and Pixar have done it again. The studios report Finding Dory earned a massive $54.954 million on opening day Friday, including Thursday evening’s $9.2 million launch. Both of those figures establish new records among any animated film in history, toppling previous holder Minions on...

Friday Update: Disney reports this morning that Finding Dory is already off to a record-breaking start, hauling in a stellar $9.2 million from Thursday’s opening night shows. That bests the previous record Thursday night gross for an animated movie (set by last summer’s Minions with $6.2),...

The company’s press release follows: LOS ANGELES – June 16, 2016 –  “Finding Dory” is making a splash in advance ticket sales, currently pacing as Fandango’s top pre-selling animated movie of all time, outselling the previous record-holder, “Minions,” at the same point...

Warner Bros.’ The Conjuring 2 topped the box office with a $40.40 million opening, good enough for first place even if slightly below its predecessor’s $41.85 million opening weekend in July 2013. Universal’s Warcraft opened with a disappointing $24.16 million, unable to...

Warner Bros.’ The Conjuring 2 topped the box office with an estimated $40.35 million this weekend, the first time a horror film took first place since the family-friendly horror Goosebumps last October and arguably the first “true” horror first-place finisher since Ouija in October...

Saturday Update: Warner Bros. reports this morning that The Conjuring 2 bowed to a strong $16.4 million on opening day Friday. That comes in just over 3 percent behind its predecessor’s July 2013 opening day after posting nearly identical Thursday night grosses (included...

Friday Update: Warner Bros. reports that The Conjuring 2 scared up $3.4 million from Thursday night’s first shows, coming in just ahead of the $3.3 million earned by the first film in July 2013 and significantly ahead of Insidious Chapter 3‘s $1.55 million...

Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows topped the box office this weekend with $35.31 million, almost exactly to its Sunday weekend estimate — though the film does start 46.2 percent behind the opening weekend of its 2014 prequel. Fox’s X-Men:...