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boxofficecollageEven after dropping 56% in its 2nd week, Ant-Man reigned, shutting out Pixels by only $0.9 million. As predicted, this weekend had a lot of close calls, with the front-runners all within $8 million of each other. Pixels was hampered by extremely negative reviews.


Minions took much more of a hit than predicted, settling in 58% down at $49 million, $8 million behind Ant-Man. Universal is still smiling today as it has pushed past the 5 billion dollar worldwide box office mark faster than any other in history.

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Looks like the Minions takeover of Amazon, McDonald’s, and, let’s face it, the entire world worked out. Beating out Toy Story 3 for the second biggest animated opening of all time. With a current global gross of nearly $400 million, Minions is another certified hit for Universal this year.

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To suggest that Inside Out and Jurassic World upset the competition is making light of Terminator Genisys‘ somewhat epic failure. Granted, Genisys beat out Jurassic World in the long 5-day stretch, but fell behind in the Friday-Sunday weekend by $2.2 million.

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There’s really not much to say besides Jurassic World had no problem gobbling up the competition. ALL of the competition. All of the competition of all time. It beat both Avengers movies. And every Harry Potter. And Nolan’s Dark Knight series. Love it or hate it, it looks like everyone went to see Chris Pratt’s trained velociraptors this weekend.

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Tomorrowland was almost upset by Pitch Perfect 2‘s stellar second weekend this holiday. Bad buzz and a confusing concept (that didn’t get any clearer after seeing it) have surely hurt it, but somehow negative reviews aren’t effecting Poltergeist.

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It’s no surprise that Pitch Perfect 2 killed it, but how much much it killed it? That is a little shocking. With $69.2 million, Elizabeth Banks’ directorial debut is an unequivocal success, landing the number one spot this weekend.