Lightyear was released this weekend and accumulated an underwhelming $51 million coming in at number 2. Projections had this film coming in with more at around $70 million due to it being related to the Toy Story franchise and focusing on one of its lead characters. There are several factors which seem to affected Lightyear performance, one being that Jurassic World Dominion is doing strong buissness at the box office despite its very weak reviews, clearly showing that peole are willing up to see this franchise no matter what. Also there is the fact that Lightyear doesn’t seem to be a home run for critics either with a franchise low score of 77%. The low box office seems to indicate that audiences aren’t interested in spin-offs and only care about the main Toy Story franchise itself. It also underwhelmed oversees only bringing in $34 million taking the worldwide total to $85 million.
Looking at the rest of the box office it seems that the Jurassic franchise can’t be killed after all, as in its second weekend it remained at number one with $58.6 million, which brings its domestic total to $259 million. Oversees Dominion passed $300 million bringing its worldwide total to $622.2 million in its second weekend. Also in its fourth weekend Top Gun Maverick continues to do really strong business as it gained another $44 million this past weekend becoming the most successful movie domestic passing Doctor Strange. The film has also passed £885 worldwide making it the biggest film in Tom Cruises career. Finally Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness came in at number 4 and has passed $400 million domestic now having a total of $405 million domestic. Internationally it made another $3 million and its worldwide total is now at $942.5M and is expected to end its run with between $950-$970M.
What do you think of these results and what movie did you see this weekend?
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