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BO Wkd 06•16-18•17 - Queen is dethroned, all hail McQueen, ScarJo roughed up

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65% CARS 3
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92% WONDER WOMAN
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24% ALL EYEZ ON ME
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16% THE MUMMY (2017)
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54% 47 METERS DOWN
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50% ROUGH NIGHT
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24% THE BOOK OF HENRY

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Box Office: ‘Cars 3' Races Past ‘Wonder Woman' to No. 1

This weekend featured a heated race between four new films that opened in wide release. As of Sunday morning, it appears some have fared better than others.

The big winner is Disney and Pixar's ”Cars 3," which is speeding to $53.5 million from 4,256 locations, putting it in first place. That's a lower opening than ”Cars" ($60.1 million) and ”Cars 2" ($66.1 million), but still enough to win the weekend. The first two ”Cars" movies combined have made more than $435 million in the U.S. and $1 billion globally. The ”Cars" films are far from Disney and Pixar's highest earners, but ”Cars 3" is another example that even a decent opening for the duo is a victory in the big picture.

The movie comes from director Brian Fee, who was a storyboard artist on the first two ”Cars" films, as well as ”Ratatouille" and ”Wall-E." The ensemble voice cast of ”Cars 3" includes Owen Wilson, Cristela Alonzo, Armie Hammer, Larry the Cable Guy, Bonnie Hunt, Nathan Fillion, Kerry Washington, and Lea DeLaria.

”This, at the end of the day, is a very important franchise for the company," said Disney distribution chief Dave Hollis, who pointed to the centering of Cristela Alonzo's Cruz Ramirez in the third installment. ”We're seeing, once again, the power of putting a female protagonist front and center ... There is now a new generation of ‘Cars' fans."

”Cars 3" bumps ”Wonder Woman" out of first place, but the super hero movie continues to show strong. With an estimated $40.7 million from 4,018 locations, the Warner Bros. and DC Comics film is seeing another extremely low drop of 32% from last weekend.

”In a world where the typical superhero blockbuster starts out strong and the quickly fades, ‘Wonder Woman' sees her star shining even more brightly as time goes on ... and that is a rare thing indeed," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore.

Otherwise, Tupac biopic ”All Eyez on Me" from Lionsgate and Summit is beating out expectations with an estimated $27.1 million from 2,471 locations. Demetrius Shipp Jr. plays the mythologized rapper. Benny Bloom — who has two feature films and a long list of music videos on his resume — directed the film that explores Shakur's origins, rise, and imprisonment. The release date aligns with what would have been Shakur's 46th birthday.

”47 Meters Down" is opening to $11.5 million from 2,270 locations. It's the first major release from Entertainment Studios, which acquired the project from its original distributor, Dimension Films. Mandy Moore and Claire Holt star as sisters who decide to go cage diving, and end up at risk of being attacked by sharks.

Finally, ”Rough Night," a raunchy, fem-centric R-rated comedy from Sony, is on track to earn only $8.1 million from 3,162 locations. The project combines the talents of director and co-writer Lucia Aniello, co-writer and actor Paul W. Downs, and star Ilana Glazer — the three are frequent collaborators on Comedy Central's ”Broad City" and ”Time Traveling Bong." Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Zoe Kravitz, and Glazer make up a rowdy girl gang who reunite for a bachelorette weekend that goes horribly wrong.

”It is genuinely a funny movie that was made at the right price, and there is a place for Rough Night as summer counter-programming in the coming weeks," said Sony's distribution chief Adrian Smith.

”Rough Night" will land in seventh for the weekend behind its fellow newcomers, ”Wonder Woman," the second weekend of ”The Mummy" ($13.9 million) and ”Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" ($8.5 million).

In limited release, Focus Features' ”The Book of Henry" is on track to make $1.4 million from 579 locations. ”While we'd certainly hoped to be a little quicker out of the gate, we are encouraged that the film is being embraced by audiences who scored it in the high eighties in exit polls," said Lisa Bunnell, distribution president at Focus Features.
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illmatic22

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Saw Wonder Woman and I know some are tired of origin stories but this was one of the better Comic Book films in years! Gal was better than I expected and nailed the whole fish out of water thing while Chris Pine stole the show. Patty Jenkins you the real MVP.
 
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GhaleonEB

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Cars and WW are way closer than I thought they were gonna be. That's a ridiculous drop. I remember after week one, before the legs really kicked in (they actually kicked in on day 2) we wondered it it could top $300m. It's going to get there before the end of next weekend. Yeah.
 
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Solo

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The only sad thing about WW's box office domination is that Gal is likely only being paid a pittance compared to the box office revenue, which is so unfortunate given how she *is* Wonder Woman.

Although I think her contract may be up after JL, and if that's the case, I hope she cashes in big on WW2.
 
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Glass Rebel

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zero_suit said:
I'd say that and Batman Begins. Batman was on a terrible losing streak, and Nolan saved it.
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I prefer Batman Begins as a movie but watching WW with my gf and some female friends was a more "meaningful" experience. I feel like people are underestimating how important it is.
 
Grizzlyjin

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
R Rated comedies are having a rough fucking summer.
 
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Heshinsi

"playing" dumb? unpossible
Am I wrong to believe that the international market is kinda lukewarm on DC movies compared to films like Pirates, Fast&Furious, and the Marvel super hero films?
 
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Ridley327

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Judging by the reviews and the amazing spoilers floating around (seriously, it sounds like the most insane film ever), I get the feeling that The Book of Henry should have gone straight to Rifftrax.
 
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Kusagari

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DC somehow fucked up Batman and Superman to the point that a solo Wonder Woman film set in WW1 and an R-Rated Deadpool film are bigger domestically.
 
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BumRush

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Awesome legs for WW and it looks like Cars did what it needed to do.

Happy Father's day to kswiss, cooter and all of the other BO GAF dad's!!

(Seriously, who else is a dad on here??)
 
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ArmGunar

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Worldwide Updates: (kswiston isn't here)

Beauty and the Beast - $1.253B
The Fate of the Furious - $1.237B

Pirates of the Caribbean 5 - $650M
Wonder Woman - $572M ($39.5M intl we)
The Mummy - $295.6M
Cars 3 - $74.8M ($21.3M in 23 markets)


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KuwabaraTheMan

Banned
11th highest third weekend ever. Decent chance of seeing Wonder Woman get in the top 10 considering that it's outperformed estimates to date.
 
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