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Mission Impossible Mops Up Weekend of Teddy Bears and Spies

The sixth Mission: Impossible film continues once again to be the hit of the summer by remaining at #1 for the weekend, despite a 42% dip. In its second weekend, the Tom Cruise-starring spy/action film made $35 million, placing its domestic total at $124 million. While the film still has yet to make its budget back, it may be on track to topple that amount and maybe even become the most massive grossing movie of the series. Fallout marks the second Mission Impossible film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, so it’s fair to guess he’ll be back for Mission Impossible 7 after such success.
The premieres for the weekend couldn’t top Tom Cruise. Christopher Robin, Disney’s live-action and somewhat somber approach to the story of Winnie the Pooh, debuted with a gross of $25 million. The Spy Who Dumped Me, an action/comedy starring the buddy duo of Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon, only made $12.3 million, well short of its $40 million budget. Not exactly stellar openings, but not nearly as terrible as the other two premieres. The Darkest Minds, a dystopian sci-fi adventure based on the young adult novel, grossed $5.8 million to arrive at #8. Not even in the top 10 is the Dinesh D’Souza political documentary, Death of a Nation, making only $2,325,000 to be at #13.
The rest of the movies took expected drops, although it was a massive tumble for Teen Titans Go! To The Movies at 53%. Last weekend the animated superhero satire was only at #5, and now it’s all the way down at #10, grossing only another $4,860,000 to bring its domestic total to $20,784,557. Though it’s not a big success for the film, it has already cleared its modest $10 million budget. Worth noting, despite not being in the top 10, is that Marvel’s Black Panther has finally crossed over the $700 million mark, edging over that finish line for only being in 25 theaters and already on home video.
View the full top 10 box office results below:
Mission: Impossible – Fallout ($35,000,000)
Christopher Robin ($25,003,000)
The Spy Who Dumped Me ($12,350,000)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again ($9,090,000)
The Equalizer 2 ($8,830,000)
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation ($8,200,000)
Ant-Man and the Wasp ($6,188,000)
The Darkest Minds ($5,800,000)
Incredibles 2 ($5,009,000)
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies ($4,860,000)
Next weekend will be a chaotic one of dogs and sharks, among killers and klansman. Getting an early start on Wednesday will be the dog comedy Dog Days in 2,500 theaters. Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, a drama on racism, will hit 1,500 theaters. Slender Man, the horror film based on the scary online stories, will enter 2,000 theaters. But the biggest movie of the weekend will undoubtedly be The Meg, a campy giant monster creature feature, debuting in 3,900 theaters.
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Movie Magic: The De-Aging Technique of The Irishman
Have you read Izzy yet? If so, you know that Izzy makes the apples that give the Gods their youth and immortality. It also seems Robert De Niro discovered one of Izzy’s apples too… In Martin Scorsese’s upcoming biographical film, he stars as Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, a labor union leader and alleged hitman for the Bufalino crime family. The trailer for the movie, which will premieres NEXT WEEK (!), also features a “de-aged” De Niro. “We’re so used to watching them as the older faces,” Scorsese said in an interview on the A24 podcast. “Does it change the eyes at all? …If that’s the case, what was in the eyes that I liked? Was it intensity? Was it gravitas? Was it threat?…How do we get that? I don’t know.” Some might consider this magic and I for one can’t wait to see the impact of Izzy’s apples on screen for myself. ????
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“Captain Marvel” Retains Top Slot at the Box Office

It’s no surprise that in its second weekend, the first Marvel Cinematic Universe of 2019 is still riding high. Captain Marvel, the latest in the MCU with Brie Larson starring as the lead, generated another $69 million over the weekend, placing its domestic total at $266 million. Tallying up the international box office, the film’s global total to date is $760 million. Despite the online controversy, the film is looking to be another strong box office smash for Disney and Marvel.
As for the premieres for the weekend, and there were plenty, they were all over the map. Just below Captain Marvel was the animated adventure Wonder Park, bringing in $16 million, another film with controversy when the director’s name was removed from the picture after sexual harassment charges. Five Feet Apart, the dying teen drama about a romance amid cystic fibrosis, only came in at #3 with a weekend gross of $13 million. And debuting the lowest in the top 10 for debuts was Captive State, a sci-fi dystopian tale, only making $3 million. The film debuted so low the little film No Manches Frida 2 was able to sneak about it at #6 with a gross of $3.8 million.

Drops were fairly low all around for the returning films, mostly because Captain Marvel was dominating the previous weekend. The only milestone worth noting is that The LEGO Movie 2, after six weeks at the box office, finally cracked $100 million. And the sun is now setting on Green Book’s post-Oscar run by coming in at #10 for the final weekend of its top 10 run over the past few weeks.
View the full top ten weekend box office results below:
Captain Marvel ($69,318,000)
Wonder Park ($16,000,000)
Five Feet Apart ($13,150,000)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World ($9,345,000)
Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral ($8,085,000)
No Manches Frida 2 ($3,894,000)
Captive State ($3,163,000)
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part ($2,135,000)
Alita: Battle Angel ($1,900,000)
Green Book ($1,277,000)
Next weekend, Captain Marvel may very well have some competition when Jordan Peele’s new horror film Us hits over 3,600 theaters.
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“Dragon” Continues To Soar, “Funeral” Close Behind, “Green Book” Back

With little competition for the weekend, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, the third in the animated fantasy saga, was able to secure the box office once more. In its second weekend, the animated epic made $30 million to push its domestic total to $97 million. So far the film has done about the same as the previous film and is on track to stay in the top 10 for a few more weeks in March.
Debuts this weekend were small with one big exception. Tyler Perry’s latest Madea film, A Madea Family Funeral, naturally made a relatively big splash with its dedicated audience. Starting at #2, the film made $27 million for its first weekend. No word on the budget yet but it’s most likely on a budget as most Tyler Perry productions are, so it’s safe to call this a success, especially for debuting with a box office so close to Dragon.
The rest of the premieres were not as strong at all. Greta, the new thriller starring Chloe Moretz, debuted all the way down at #8 with $4.5 million box office. To be fair, however, the film was in a constant battle for its spot as three other films also reported earnings around $4 million for the weekend. Of note, Green Book, fresh off winning the Academy Award for Best Picture one weekend ago, splashed back into more theaters to arise even higher in the top 10 with its domestic total now sitting at $73 million. Don’t count on it remaining there long as bigger blockbusters will be swooping as we plow through the last remnants of winter movies.
Check out the full listing of the top 10 box office weekend results below:
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World ($30,046,000)
Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral ($27,050,000)
Alita: Battle Angel ($7,000,000)
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part ($6,615,000)
Green Book ($4,711,000)
Fighting With My Family ($4,691,284)
Isn’t it Romantic ($4,645,000)
Greta ($4,585,000)
What Men Want ($2,700,000)
Happy Death Day 2U ($2,516,000)
Next weekend is once again all about Marvel as their latest superhero solo film, Captain Marvel, will be appearing in 4,100 theaters.
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