He said they are popular, not great films.

Estimates:

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw	Uni.	$60,800,000	-	4,253	-	$14,296	$60,800,000	$200	1
2	1	The Lion King (2019)	BV	$38,246,000	-50.1%	4,802	+77	$7,965	$430,889,078	-	3
3	2	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Sony	$20,025,000	-51.3%	3,659	-	$5,473	$78,842,475	$90	2
4	3	Spider-Man: Far from Home	Sony	$7,755,000	-37.7%	3,446	-405	$2,250	$360,328,925	$160	5
5	4	Toy Story 4	BV	$7,150,000	-31.6%	3,225	-385	$2,217	$410,050,743	-	7
6	6	Yesterday	Uni.	$2,440,000	-20.8%	1,837	-713	$1,328	$67,902,655	$26	6
7	10	The Farewell	A24	$2,429,114	+60.0%	409	+274	$5,939	$6,837,624	-	4
8	5	Crawl	Par.	$2,150,000	-47.1%	2,085	-635	$1,031	$36,090,773	$13.5	4
9	7	Aladdin (2019)	BV	$2,018,000	-33.6%	1,370	-428	$1,473	$350,369,592	$183	11
10	9	Annabelle Comes Home	WB (NL)	$875,000	-43.7%	919	-368	$952	$71,575,112	-	6
11	12	The Secret Life of Pets 2	Uni.	$730,000	-20.8%	779	-222	$937	$155,409,025	$80	9
12	8	Stuber	Fox	$506,000	-71.3%	1,080	-1,070	$469	$21,752,533	-	4
13	13	Midsommar	A24	$407,775	-44.3%	381	-245	$1,070	$25,212,116	-	5
14	14	Rocketman	Par.	$285,000	-39.2%	354	-164	$805	$95,546,549	$40	10
15	22	Maiden	SPC	$229,436	+12.0%	131	+18	$1,751	$1,525,638	-	6

Take aways: Great opening for Hobbs and Shaw, good hold for Once Upon a Time, Lion King is at $1.2b worldwide. The Farewell is doing very well. Hobbs and Shaw is at $181m worldwide.

Estimates:

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	1	Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw	Uni.	$25,400,000	-57.7%	4,344	+91	$5,847	$108,513,780	$200	2
2	N	Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	LGF	$20,800,000	-	3,135	-	$6,635	$20,800,000	-	1
3	2	The Lion King (2019)	BV	$20,000,000	-48.1%	4,220	-582	$4,739	$473,103,826	-	4
4	N	Dora and the Lost City of Gold	Par.	$17,000,000	-	3,735	-	$4,552	$17,000,000	$49	1
5	3	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Sony	$11,600,000	-42.0%	3,507	-152	$3,308	$100,331,370	$90	3
6	N	The Art of Racing in the Rain	Fox	$8,100,000	-	2,765	-	$2,929	$8,100,000	-	1
7	N	The Kitchen (2019)	WB (NL)	$5,510,000	-	2,745	-	$2,007	$5,510,000	-	1
8	4	Spider-Man: Far from Home	Sony	$5,300,000	-32.9%	2,678	-768	$1,979	$370,972,490	$160	6
9	5	Toy Story 4	BV	$4,400,000	-40.1%	2,295	-930	$1,917	$419,578,368	-	8
10	N	Bring the Soul: The Movie	Trafalgar	$2,296,491	-	873	-	$2,631	$4,417,649	-	1
11	7	The Farewell	A24	$2,217,690	-8.1%	704	+295	$3,150	$10,322,121	-	5
12	N	Brian Banks	BST	$2,145,793	-	1,240	-	$1,730	$2,145,793	-	1
13	6	Yesterday	Uni.	$1,100,000	-55.4%	866	-971	$1,270	$70,454,730	$26	7
14	9	Aladdin (2019)	BV	$819,000	-61.5%	615	-755	$1,332	$352,774,267	$183	12
15	8	Crawl	Par.	$700,000	-68.0%	757	-1,963	$925	$38,070,074	$13.5	5
16	11	The Secret Life of Pets 2	Uni.	$410,000	-44.7%	402	-377	$1,020	$156,578,455	$80	10

Lion King is now the highest grossing animated film worldwide, and is 3rd domestic.

Good Boys is taking the top slot this weekend with an estimated $20m. Angry Birds 2 is opening poorly despite fairly solid reviews, with $8.7m estimated for the weekend.

Where'd you Go Bernadette looks like it'll land around $4m for the weekend, 47 Meters Down 2 is landing around $7m. Blinded By the Light is the best critical reception of the weekend, looks to hit $4.3m

In terms of quality? 2007 maybe?

Releasing it during the back-to-school period seemed like a mistake to me. People were still furiously trying to get supplies and haircuts last weekend.

Nobody is back to school in my area. My kids don't go back until after Labor day.

Still I always expected this to bomb. The Angry Birds fad was on it's last legs when the first movie came out. It's basically dead now.

Estimates:

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	Angel has Fallen	LGF	$21,250,000	-	3,286	-	$6,467	$21,250,000	$40	1
2	1	Good Boys	Uni.	$11,750,000	-45.1%	3,353	+149	$3,504	$42,057,505	$20	2
3	N	Overcomer	Affirm	$8,200,000	-	1,723	-	$4,759	$8,200,000	$5	1
4	3	The Lion King (2019)	BV	$8,150,000	-33.9%	3,300	-260	$2,470	$510,635,735	-	6
5	2	Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw	Uni.	$8,140,000	-42.6%	3,312	-445	$2,458	$147,701,255	$200	4
6	N	Ready or Not	FoxS	$7,550,000	-	2,855	-	$2,644	$10,578,148	-	1
7	4	The Angry Birds Movie 2	Sony	$6,365,000	-38.5%	3,869	-	$1,645	$27,091,263	$65	2
8	5	Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	LGF	$6,000,000	-40.0%	2,927	-208	$2,050	$50,489,202	$25	3
9	6	Dora and the Lost City of Gold	Par.	$5,200,000	-39.3%	2,843	-892	$1,829	$43,099,953	$49	3
10	8	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Sony	$5,000,000	-34.9%	2,209	-295	$2,263	$123,187,467	$90	5
11	7	47 Meters Down: Uncaged	ENTMP	$4,000,000	-52.5%	2,883	+30	$1,387	$15,415,947	$12	2
12	20	The Peanut Butter Falcon	RAtt.	$3,008,940	+945.8%	991	+942	$3,036	$3,728,289	-	3
13	10	Blinded By the Light	WB	$2,100,000	-51.5%	2,307	-	$910	$8,221,406	-	2
14	9	The Art of Racing in the Rain	Fox	$2,071,000	-54.7%	2,040	-725	$1,015	$21,451,327	-	3
15	12	Spider-Man: Far from Home	Sony	$1,665,000	-40.6%	1,008	-507	$1,652	$379,734,007	$160	8
16	11	Where'd You Go, Bernadette	UAR	$1,404,300	-59.4%	2,306	-98	$609	$6,589,860	-	2
17	14	Toy Story 4	BV	$1,259,000	-41.5%	820	-425	$1,535	$426,762,256	-	10
18	15	The Farewell	A24	$944,482	-36.4%	816	-45	$1,157	$14,474,395	-	7
19	16	Mission Mangal	FIP	$653,000	-52.2%	263	-	$2,483	$2,711,211	-	2
20	18	Yesterday	Uni.	$410,000	-28.0%	438	-64	$936	$72,402,160	$26	9

Angel Has Fallen is in line with London Has Fallen
Lion King is now Disney's biggest "remake" stateside, taking over for Beauty and the Beast ($504m)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has taken over Inglorious Basterds as Tarantino's 2nd highest grossing film (stateside)
Good Boys held up extremely well for an R rated comedy
Hawbbs and Shaw is nearing $600m worldwide ($588m)
Overcomer: The Peter North Story is religious, didn't do as well as War Room or Courageous (same director) but did very well in its own right.
Angry Birds 2 is at $74m worldwide.

Not bad for Angel has Fallen. That's good for a late August release.

Like London, it will probably make most of it's money from overseas.

With a slow BO, it goes to show you that everyone is waiting for It Chapter II.

Seems the studios are waiting on that too for some reason. There is absolutely nothing good coming out over labor day weekend.

I still feel like Labor Day would be a great three day for a family flick. Apparently studios disagree. #1 at $11.5m seems sad.

Seriously why aren't there any major releases for Labor Day? All the other major holidays have huge movies coming out for the weekend (except New Years and that's just a week after Christmas). I would have loved to go to a new movie this weekend. No football keeping me home on Sunday and nothing else to do with it being so hot outside.

Prepping for the holiday season releases already.

Most people don't live in the scorching hellscapes we do.

Our Feels Like temp is 106 today. This summer has sucked. Estimates for this weekend: