Traxan

Big fall off for Ghostbusters.

TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count /Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week #
1 N Star Trek Beyond Par. $59,600,000 - 3,928 - $15,173 $59,600,000 $185 1
2 1 The Secret Life of Pets Uni. $29,330,000 -42.3% 4,048 -333 $7,246 $260,708,745 $75 3
3 2 Ghostbusters (2016) Sony $21,600,000 -53.1% 3,963 - $5,450 $86,856,739 $144 2
4 N Lights Out WB (NL) $21,600,000 - 2,818 - $7,665 $21,600,000 $4.9 1
5 N Ice Age: Collision Course Fox $21,000,000 - 3,992 - $5,261 $21,000,000 $105 1
6 4 Finding Dory BV $7,220,000 -36.0% 2,576 -960 $2,803 $460,199,119 - 6
7 3 The Legend of Tarzan WB $6,430,000 -43.8% 2,844 -707 $2,261 $115,824,084 $180 4
8 5 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Fox $4,400,000 -42.5% 2,137 -871 $2,059 $40,357,747 $33 3
9 37 Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party QF $3,700,000 +4,845.6% 1,216 +1,213 $3,043 $3,791,524 - 2
10 8 The Infiltrator BG $3,293,840 -37.9% 1,537 -64 $2,143 $12,239,750 - 2

islandclaws

Decent debut for Trek. At least it bucks the trend of most summer sequels doing significantly worse than their predecessors.

GB drop is in line with a tentpole. It'll finish out around $120mm or so; def not in league with Feig's other films as far as multiples go.

OldBoy

Nice tally for Pets and Lights Out. Both have to be surprises of the summer...

Michael Corvin

So will Bourne trounce the BO next week? Ultimatum did nearly a half billion worldwide. Question is, did Legacy ruin/taint the series?

I rarely get out opening weekend, but I'll find a way to see Bourne next weekend.

islandclaws

^ I think, if anything, Legacy whet fans' appetite for more Damon. We'll find out next week. A debut of $50mm or more would be a clear indication, and I know Uni wants the series to go on with Damon as long as it can.

Michael Corvin

I'm not a huge Trek fan but I have enjoyed the new series, but I think Bourne will absolutely bury it next weekend.

RichC2

Pets isn't a surprise at all, that thing has been tracking through the roof for a year now. Lights Out, though, absolutely.

Of course. If Bourne opens to $50m and Trek has a soft drop of 35% (it'll be a bigger drop but just hypothetically), it'd be at $39m and Bourne would still be burying it.

TomOpus

Warner Bros has to be happy about Lights Out. Budget was under $5 million. It's short runtime helped somewhat.

Now we can start naming the sequel:

Lights Still Out
Lights Out 2: The Disconnection
Lights Out 2: Rolling Brownouts
Lights Out 2: Electric Boogaloo

Shannon Nutt

Bourne will be No. 1, but will it have a much bigger opening than Star Trek Beyond did this weekend? Doubtful. It will probably do about the same (somewhere in the $60 million range). Trek will probably be in the No. 2 spot with around $25-$30 million.

Then Suicide Squad gets to bury them both...big time.

Ash Ketchum

I watched the premiere episode of Star Trek TOS last night: "The Man Trap"--and was stunned to realize I'd never seen it before. It's moderately suspenseful and Sulu, Uhura, and Yeoman Rand get to do more character stuff than usual (for instance, we first meet Sulu in the Botany Lab--not sure why he's there), but it's still a ludicrous story, something about a shape-shifting alien creature aboard the Enterprise that needs salt to survive and instead of going to the cafeteria and simply pouring salt into its mouth, it starts killing crew members to suck the salt out of them.

I've actually still got a couple dozen TOS episodes I've never seen, so STAR TREK BEYOND will just have to wait.

Artman

I don't think the 9yr absence from Damon as Bourne has helped it, for some series it does.. but I don't really see any momentum now. A 60m+ opening, 200m+ domestic final should be the target... wouldn't be surprised if it opens below that. But international should make up for it, and get it over 500m worldwide.

james2025a

Bourne will open big and probably have a good few weeks after that. i don't think that Legacy did anything to hurt the series (and i like that movie...unlike most it seems). Suicide Squad will hit big though and $100 million opening weekend is possible, however with schools back and i dont think any national holidays may keep it from hitting as big as it potentially could opening weekend. I imagine that within 2 weeks we hear of the sequel being greenlit.

RichC2

Suicide Squad opens on the 5th, I don't think most schools start back up until the 15th, though I know it varies by area.

A $60m+ opening is higher than the $50m+ tracking, so you actually have it pegged higher than the already decent momentum it has going. Ultimatum was well anticipated at the time and opened to a strong $69m, I think anything north of $45m would be a success. Supremacy opened to $52.5m, Identity pulled $27m.

Obi-Wanma

Schools here don't start up until after Labor Day.

RoboDad

[Pedantic mode]
The story wasn't really that ludicrous. It wasn't a shape-shifting alien, it was an alien that, in order to survive, developed the ability to hypnotize its prey into believing it was a familiar creature. That is why everyone saw it as someone different, even at the same time.

As for why it didn't just "go to the cafeteria and pour salt into its mouth", well, that would kind of reveal its true nature to everyone, and cause it to be captured. It survived by stealth.
[/Pedantic mode]

Ash Ketchum

[common sense reaction] I'm sure I saw the creature change into Dr. McCoy when no one was looking. And everyone saw it as Dr. McCoy. Which makes it a shape-shifter in my book. Kind of like John Carpenter's THE THING. And wouldn't killing half the crew be a surer way to "reveal its true nature to everyone and cause it to be captured"? Which is kind of what happened. If it had just raided the salt supplies in the pantry, or poured a lot of salt on its salad in the cafeteria, it could have stayed on the ship indefinitely. But killing the crew got everyone's attention. Not exactly stealth. And it didn't survive. [/common sense reaction ]

GuessWho

Why the hell did I just read Trek spoilers in the BO thread?

Obi-Wanma

You read spoilers for a TV episode that aired in 1966. I think you'll be ok.