While it was looking likeSkyscrapercould be an action movie winner forDwayne Johnson, his latest outing was no match for the third entry in theHotel Transylvaniaseries. The animated family film took home $44 million on its opening weekend, the second-best opening in the series, which isn’t too shabby when you consider that this is the firstHotel Transylvaniamovie to open during the summer rather than September. The animated feature also took $46.4 million from overseas for a global start of over $100 million. Obviously, Sony hopes to take advantage of kids being out of school and thatTransylvaniawill benefit from repeat viewings.
Meanwhile,Skyscraperfaltered badly. It’s $25.5 million weekend wasn’t even good enough for second place, which went to the second weekend ofAnt-Man and the Waspearning $29.5 million. The Marvel sequel has made $133 million domestic and $151 million overseas.
Skyscraperhad to settle for third place, and right now the film’s hopes are banking on China where the movie is set. The movie will open there on Friday, and that market will have to perform if the movie is to have any hope of earning back its massive $125 million budget. Nevertheless, this is definitely a blow to Johnson’s earning power as he’s shown that he can thrive in pre-existing franchises, but when trying to start one of his own (Baywatch,Rampage,Skyscraper), people are less interested.
At the indie box office,Eighth Gradegenerated the best per-screen average of the year thus far, pulling in $63,071 per screen on just four screens. Meanwhile,Sorry to Bother Youexpanded to 805 theaters and broke into the Top 10 with a weekend gross of $4.3 million. Finally, Gus Van Sant’sDon’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Footmade $83,120 with $20,780 per theater.
Check out the full Top 10 below. Next weekendThe Equalizer 2,Unfriended: Dark Web, andMamma Mia: Here We Go Again!will battle it out.
Hotel Transylvania 3
$44,100,00
$45,376,000
Ant-Man and the Wasp
$28,840,000
$132,825,225
Skyscraper
$25,485,000
Incredibles 2
$16,220,000
$535,818,492
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
$15,515,000
$363,297,215
The First Purge
$9,130,000
$49,905,970
Sorry to Bother You
$4,258,000
$5,322,952
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
$3,850,000
$43,200,345
Uncle Drew
$3,225,000
$36,692,040
$2,910,000
$132,255,936
