“F1: The Movie ”puts the pedal to the metal in box office opening weekend with $144 million global take
Key Points
Brad Pitt and Joseph Kosinski's F1: The Movie was the resounding winner at this weekend's box office tally.
The past two weeks' reigning champ, How to Train Your Dragon, fell to second place both domestically and globally.
Pixar's Elio continued to flounder, MEGAN 2.0 booted up, 28 Years Later's virus showed no signs of abating, and Jurassic World: Rebirth poses the only major threat to F1 next weekend.
This is no photo finish: F1: The Movie is the weekend's clear box office victor.
AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R16ekkr8lb2m7nfblbH1» iframe AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R26ekkr8lb2m7nfblbH1» iframeThe torqued-up actioner set in the high-stakes world of Formula 1 racing ran laps around its closest competition for a $55.6 million take at the domestic box office, and $144 million globally. Given its star, Brad Pitt, and director, Top Gun: Maverick's Joseph Kosinski, F1's out-the-gate success isn't too surprising, but it was by no means assured. The film which depicts an aging, former pro racer who's pushed by a teammate (Javier Bardem) to test his mettle on the blacktop again had to slay a dragon to secure the gold.
Dean DeBlois' How to Train Your Dragon live-action remake has been a box office juggernaut since its mid-June release, scoring a scorching-hot $197.8 million global premiere and continuing its winning streak into week 2. Though it fell to No. 2 this weekend, it still added $19.4 million domestically for a $200 million gross, and $52 million globally for a $454.4 million gross.
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Nico Parker and Mason Thames in 'How to Train Your Dragon'This weekend's other anticipated premiere, the cybertronic horror sequel MEGAN 2.0, fell short of a top three finish at the domestic race, scoring No. 4 with a $10.2 million take. It fell even shorter globally, ranking seventh with a $17.1 million haul, but the Blumhouse offering from Gerard Johnstone featuring Girls star Allison Williams will have no problem surpassing its estimated $25 million production budget.
What did earn a spot in the domestic winners' circle this weekend was Elio, the latest from Pixar, which earned $10.7 million in its second week of release for a $42.2 million domestic haul since its release, and added $22.1 million globally for a $72.3 million haul. $70 million is nothing to scoff at, unless you're Pixar, which is still smarting from the film's meager $21 million debut earning it the ignoble title of the animation titan's worst-ever debut. The film is still a good deal short of its budget, which is estimated around $150 million, and for contrast, by this time in its release, last year's Inside Out 2 had already grossed $724 million at the global market.
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Other notable titles on this weekend's domestic charts include Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, both in their sixth weeks of release and still chugging along, crossing the $400 million and $185 million marks at the box office, respectively. Materialists, Celine Song's genre-skewed, mixed-reviewed love triangle, has proven its legs, holding strong at No. 8 with a $3 million take in its third week of release.
AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R1eekkr8lb2m7nfblbH1» iframe AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R2eekkr8lb2m7nfblbH1» iframeGlobally, Danny Boyle, Cillian Murphy, and Alex Garland's gory threequel, 28 Years Later, continues collecting its bones, adding $23.4 million for a $103 million two-week gross. Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback, the 28th entry in the long-running Japanese anime franchise, raked in another $23.2 million from only three markets after a staggering 11 weeks in theaters.
Next week, F1 faces more threats from reptilian megafauna, this time in the form of Jurassic World: Rebirth. Starring Scarlett Johansson,Jonathan Bailey,Mahershala Ali,and Rupert Friend, this new era in the dino dynasty marks the first first Jurassic film withoutChris PrattandBryce Dallas Howard since 2015.
Teasing what fans can expect from the new film to Entertainment Weekly back in December, director Gareth Edwards said Rebirth "felt like the beginning of a brand-new chapter in this franchise," and called it "a giant love letter to Steven Spielberg and his earlier films."
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