Father's Day weekend has, since 2015, been Pixar weekend. Inside Out, Finding Dory, Cars 3, Incredibles II, and Toy Story 4 debuted on that weekend in consecutive years. Soul was supposed to open that weekend last year, and ended up being one of the final holdouts among the big releases scheduled for June before finally fleeing. This year, Luca was supposed to open for Father's Day, and it did...on Disney+. I'm still flabbergasted as to why Disney did this, as reviews were terrific, and they almost certainly cost themselves an easy #1 this weekend. We'll see if the Toy Story spinoff Lightyear, set for Father's Day weekend next year, keeps its theatrical release date.
In the absence of Italian pre-teen sea monsters, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, a sequel to the moderate 2017 hit The Hitman's Bodyguard, won the weekend mostly by default. It took in $11.4 million over the weekend. The action comedy diluted its opening by coming out on Wednesday, and took in a more impressive $16.7 million over its first five days, less than $5 million off the first film's three-day opening. Hitman's Wife is probably not built for the long-term, but in these conditions, if it can take in half of its surprisingly leggy predecessor's $75.5 million, it will have to be considered at least a mild success.
A Quiet Place Part II continues to be the overwhelming smash of the early summer, taking in another $9.1 million in its fourth weekend. That's only about $2 million less than the first one made on its fourth weekend. The film now has taken in a total of $125 million, and could end up surprisingly close to the $188 million the original did in 2018.
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway hopped up one spot to third, taking in a decent $6.1 million for a ten-day total of $20.3 million. It gets one more weekend with the family audience mostly to itself before Boss Baby 2 arrives for Fourth of July weekend.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It continues to fade fairly fast, as it scared up $5 million for a total so far of $53.5 million. It should pass The Curse of La Llorona in the next week, but looks likely to come up short of Annabelle Comes Home, which was the second-lowest grosser of the series with $74.2 million.
Cruella continues to perform decently in 5th, spotting another $4.8 million for a fashionable $64.5 million. For now, it is now the third highest-grossing movie of both the year and of the pandemic era.
In just two weeks, In the Heights has gone from potential breakout smash to possibly the summer's biggest flop. It fell a shocking 64% to $4.2 million, for a ten-day gross of $19.7 million. There's already been plenty of post-mortems about how such a well-reviewed, well-liked movie could end up bombing like it is in the process of doing, and expect plenty more (yes, the controversy about the lack of darker-skinned actors and characters probably played a part, but not a big one). You have to think that producers of the year's other big musicals, like Dear Evan Hanson and West Side Story, have to plenty nervous now.
Spirit Untamed proved very tame, taking in $1.6 million for a total of $13.8 million. This should go galloping off into the sunset well before $20 million.
After a limited release last weekend, Twelve Mighty Orphans, a drama starring Luke Wilson as the coach of the football team at a boys' home during the Depression that unexpectedly wins the Texas high school championship, went wide to marginal business, taking in $0.9 million. Its ten day stands at $1.3 million.
Having an unexpectedly small drop, horror spoof The House Next Door took in $0.6 million for a ten-day of $2 million. Rounding out the Top Ten, Wrath of Man looks to be heading toward the exit with $26.8 million, allowing it to edge past fellow spring vigilante thriller Nobody.
Outside the Top Ten, Godzilla vs. Kong finally lumbered past the $100 million mark in its 12th weekend, with its total now standing at $100.1 million. It becomes the second $100 million grosser of the pandemic era.
Almost exactly 20 years after the release of the The Fast and The Furious, the series has not only dispensed with articles but words themselves in its titles, as F9 roars into theaters. Continuing the franchise's signature fast cars defying the laws of physics wrapped around some sort of plot, Vin Diesel has to go up against his hitherto unmentioned biological brother, played by John Cena (you would think his existence would have come up before, given that each movie uses the word "family" roughly a thousand times each). As usual, most of the characters introduced in previous installments show up here, outside of the spun off Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson. But Helen Mirren--Helen Mirren!--is back. This will easily open at #1, probably making several orders of magnitude more than whatever ends up at #2. It will likely also beat A Quiet Place Part II's $47.6 million opening. Could it top $50 million? $60 million? We'll find out just how fast and furiously fans rush to the theater next week.
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