Disney-Pixar’s Onward, featuring the voices of Chris Pratt and Tom Holland, topped the box office this weekend with an estimated $40 million. This made for a good opening, but still one on the lower end of initial expectations which predicted $40-45 million.
Onward’s weekend is also, per Variety, on par with the debut of Disney-Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur, which debuted with $39 million and wound up being the lowest-grossing Pixar film of all time. The last two Pixar films, Toy Story 4 and The Incredibles 2, both had massive opening weekends. Both were also sequels to big hits and opened in the summer, not March.
IGN’s review of Onward hails it as a “fun-filled fantasy adventure tale featuring a solid voice cast.”
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The Invisible Man, dropping about 49% from last weekend, pulled in an estimated $14 million to take the number two spot. Right now, it’s at $52 million domestically. For third place, it was The Way Back, starring Ben Affleck as a mourning alcoholic who tries to turn his life around as the coach of a high school basketball team. It brought in an estimated $8.5 million.
IGN’s review of The Way Back notes that it’s a “gratifying sports movie that is made better than the average by some sadness, some realism, and Ben Affleck’s performance.”
North American Box Office Estimates
In a close race for third, Sonic the Hedgehog will fall just behind The Way Back. Still, the well-received video game flick has, to date, earned a whopping $141 million here in North America.
Meanwhile, Focus Features’ Jane Austen adaptation, Emma, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, brought in $5 million, landing in sixth place.
Bad Boys for Life continues its juggernaut run, crossing the $200 million domestic mark this weekend.
Here are the Top 10 North American box office estimates for the (2-day) weekend (via Box Office Mojo)
- 1. Onward $40,000,000
- 2. The Invisible Man $15,150,000
- 3. The Way Back $8,500,000
- 4. Sonic the Hedgehog $8,000,000
- 5. The Call of the Wild $7,000,000
- 6. Emma $5,000,000
- 7. Bad Boys for Life $3,050,000
- 8. Birds of Prey $2,160,000
- 9. Impractical Jokers $1,845,000
- 10 My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising $1,528,753
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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.
Source: IGN.com Box Office: Pixar's Onward Opens Big, But Not Pixar-Big