Toys reigned supreme at the box office in the final weekend of June, as Toy Story 4 reclaimed the top spot with $57.9 million and Annabelle Comes Home — featuring a decidedly less-friendly plaything — had a softer-than-expected opening in second place. Elsewhere, newcomer Yesterday exceeded expectations in third while Avengers: Endgame shot back into the Top 10 thanks to its re-release in over 2,000 locations.
Following its franchise-best $120.9 million debut last weekend (not adjusting for inflation), Toy Story 4 dropped 52% in its sophomore frame, which is significantly higher than Toy Story 3’s 46.2% decline in weekend two and roughly even with Toy Story 2’s 51.6% drop. Overall, it’s a solid second weekend performance for the Disney-Pixar follow-up, which now stands at a fantastic $236.9 million total after ten days of release and is currently the fourth highest-grossing title of the year to date.
With an estimated $20.3 million three-day weekend and $31.2 million since opening Wednesday (including Tuesday night previews), Annabelle Comes Home posted the lowest opening weekend of the Annabelle series (of which it’s the third film) as well as the larger Conjuring franchise (of which it’s the sixth entry). Nonetheless, that’s still a pretty healthy debut for a film that reportedly cost in the high $20s/low $30 millions to produce.
Reviews for the Warner Bros./New Line threequel were mixed (it’s at 69% “Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes, similar to the second entry Annabelle: Creation), while audiences gave it a “B-“ Cinemascore, which is on the lower end for the overall Conjuring franchise but still respectable for a horror film. That’s actually the same Cinemascore as last summer’s The First Purge, which also debuted on a Wednesday (the Fourth of July) and brought in a similar $17.3 million over the three-day period and $31.2 million over the five-day.
Third place went to Universal’s Yesterday, which debuted to a better-than-expected $17 million from 2,603 locations. That’s a record opening (not adjusting for inflation) for director Danny Boyle, whose previous best was the Leonardo DiCaprio-starrer The Beach, which brought in $15.2 million way back in February 2000.
Reviews for the high-concept musical drama — which posits an alternate timeline in which the Beatles never existed — were mixed (it’s just barely “Fresh” with a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes), but opening-day audiences granted the film an “A-“ Cinemascore while the RT Audience Score is a superb 90%, suggesting word-of-mouth may have propelled the film’s performance this weekend. Along with Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, this is the third musically-driven sleeper in recent months to deal with an iconic musical act – though unlike those films, Yesterday isn’t a biopic, so the comparison only goes so far.
In its sixth weekend, Disney’s Aladdin continued strong in fourth place with an estimated $9.3 million, bringing the total for the musical fantasy to an outstanding $305.9 million through Sunday. The Guy Ritchie-directed film is now the fourth highest-grossing Disney live-action remake after 2017’s Beauty and the Beast ($504 million), 2016’s The Jungle Book ($364 million) and 2010’s Alice in Wonderland ($334.1 million).
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