We had a long weekend, with the 4th of July being on Monday, and we had a pretty good movie weekend. Again to my surprise, Finding Dory snagged the number one spot with about $50 million. The Legends of Tarzan snagged the number two spot with $45.5 million, and The Purge: Election Year came in with about $34.7 million. The BFG unfortunately under-performed, making only $22.3 million
Here is a breakdown of the top 10 movies for the weekend:
- Finding Dory – $50,195,956
- The Legends of Tarzan – $45,565,000
- The Purge: Election Year – $34,796,220
- The BFG – $22,271,014
- Independence Day: Resurgence – $20,200,000
- Central Intelligence – $15,010,000
- The Shallows – $10,450,000
- Free State of Jones – $5,076,000
- The Conjuring 2 – $4,570,000
- Now You See Me 2 – $3,600,000
We have some big winners in this week’s guesses for the Summer Movie Draft Giveaway! Both Austin Baroudi and Daisy were able to make a correct guess of Finding Dory and they got within $5 million! They snagged 8 bonus entries to the giveaway! D. Rivera also managed to get 3 points for guessing Finding Dory as well. Congratulations!
Looking To This Weekend
We have a couple of movies coming up this weekend. The Secret Life of Pets is opening, an animated movie featuring lovable animals, and what they do when us humans aren’t home. We also have Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, which features two men looking to be respectable members of society looking for dates to their sister’s wedding, but who they find seem to have their own agenda of trying to swindle a free trip to Hawaii out of the men.
I think I am pretty confident that The Secret Life of Pets will take number one this weekend. I think Finding Dory will finally taper off enough to give up the number one spot. Numbers-wise, I think The Secret Life of Pets will make $65 million. This should be a fairly big opening as it is a children’s movie, so there should be a good crowd for the weekend. The trailer seems to have hit with a lot of people too, as there is a lot of laughing when I am in the theater and the trailer comes on. I think Finding Dory could still be in the running though—and it will probably be the number 2 movie for the weekend.
Make sure you get your guesses in for this week! Simply leave the guess in the comments below! I am really curious to see what everyone thinks will happen this weekend!
As for our friendly competition, we have new standings below. For information as to what this is, you can check out it out here!
Here are the current standings:
Here is a look at the standings up until this weekend for our 7 players:
| Movie | Cost | Box Office |
|---|---|---|
| My Big, Fat Greek Wedding 2 | $13 | $60.0M |
| Ratchet and Clank | $6 | $8.8M |
| X-Men: Apocalypse | $37 | $153.7M |
| TMNT: Out of the Shadows | $14 | $79.6M |
| Now You See Me 2 | $9 | $59.3M |
| Warcraft | $17 | $45.9M |
| The Founder | $4 | – |
| Total | $407.1M |
| Movie | Cost | Box Office |
|---|---|---|
| Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice | $30 | $330.4M |
| Criminal | $7 | $14.7M |
| A Hologram for the King | $1 | $4.2M |
| Captain America: Civil War | $42 | $405.6M |
| Money Monster | $2 | $40.6M |
| Jason Bourne | $18 | – |
| Total | $795.4M |
| Movie | Cost | Box Office |
|---|---|---|
| God’s Not Dead 2 | $5 | $20.8M |
| Central Intelligence | $15 | $94.4M |
| The BFG | $20 | $22.3M |
| The Secret Life of Pets | $21 | – |
| Ghostbusters | $15 | – |
| Sausage Party | $24 | – |
| Total | $137.5M |
| Movie | Cost | Box Office |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcore Henry | $7 | $9.3M |
| Jungle Book | $30 | $359.9M |
| The Purge: Election Year | $5 | $34.8M |
| Ice Age: Collision Course | $19 | – |
| Suicide Squad | $39 | – |
| Total | $403.8M |
| Movie | Cost | Box Office |
|---|---|---|
| Keanu | $8 | $20.6M |
| The Angry Birds Movie | $16 | $105.7M |
| The Nice Guys | $9 | $35.2M |
| Finding Dory | $50 | $380.5M |
| Nine Lives | $5 | – |
| Ben Hur | $12 | – |
| Total | $542.1M |
| Movie | Cost | Box Office |
|---|---|---|
| Huntsman: Winter’s War | $20 | $48.0M |
| Mother’s Day | $11 | $32.5M |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | $35 | $75.7M |
| Free State of Jones | $9 | $16.1M |
| Independence Day: Resurgence | $25 | $76.4M |
| Total | $248.7M |
| Movie | Cost | Box Office |
|---|---|---|
| Meet the Blacks | $4 | $9.1M |
| The Boss | $1 | $63.1M |
| Barbershop: The Next Cut | $9 | $53.9M |
| The Darkness | $1 | $10.7M |
| Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising | $20 | $55.0M |
| The Conjuring 2 | $7 | $96.0M |
| The Shallows | $6 | $16.7M |
| The Legend of Tarzan | $7 | $45.6M |
| Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates | $6 | – |
| Star Trek Beyond | $19 | – |
| Bad Moms | $1 | – |
| Pete’s Dragon | $15 | – |
| Spectral | $4 | – |
| Total | $370.0M |
It looks like the big movies are all wrapping up now, but there are a few movies that could score people some big points. We will have to see how everything plays out going forward.
As for the giveaway, be sure to get your guesses in for your bonus entries!
I’ll go with the Secret Life of Pets this week with $50 million.
The Secret Life of Pets 55 million
The Secret Life Of Pets – $47 million
life of pets at $65 million
Secret life of pets. 45 mil
The Secret Life of Pets at $53 million.
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Carl, do you have a guess for what movie will be #1 this weekend? If not, we will have to delete the entry that you claimed. Thanks.