Weekend Wrap-up: Knight is First for the Weekend, Last for the Franchise with $44.68 million
June 27, 2017
Transformers: The Last Knight had the weekend to itself, but it couldn’t take advantage earning $44.68 million / $68.48 million over the full five days. It earned less over five days than last year’s winner, Finding Dory, earned over three days. Wonder Woman remained in second place becoming just the third film released in 2017 to hit $300 million, but there was not much else to celebrate at the box office. This explains why the overall box office fell 27% from last weekend down to $139 million. More importantly, this is 26% lower than the same weekend last year. 2017 is still ahead of 2016, but its lead was cut in half to just 1.3% or $70 million. This is a little distressing.
Transformers: The Last Knight opened with $44.68 million over the three-day weekend for a total of $68.48 million from Wednesday through Sunday. This is by far the worst opening in the Transformers franchise. In fact, it earned less in five days than the first Transformers movie earned in three. Add in what are arguably the worst reviews of the summer and it will likely not have very good legs. On the other hand, the film will earn more in China than it does domestically, so it could still break even thanks to its international numbers.
Wonder Woman remained in second place with $24.91 million over the weekend for a four-week running tally of $318.11 million. At this pace, it will become the biggest domestic hit in the DCEU in less than a week, while it is catching up to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2.
Cars 3 fell 55% to $24.07 million over the weekend for a total $98.78 million after two weeks of release. A 55% decline is not good for a family film, but it is better than Cars 2 managed. It will likely still end up with the second worst domestic result for a Pixar film, but merchandising will be enough to cover its combined production and advertising budgets, as well as the combined production and advertising budgets for the inevitable sequel.
47 Meters Down rose to fourth place with $7.09 million over the weekend for a ten-day total of $23.91 million. It could be more than the film cost to make and advertise, so this is great news for the distributor, as it means they will almost assuredly earn a profit during the film’s initial push into the home market.
The Mummy rounded out the top five with $6.06 million over the weekend for a three-week total of $68.74 million. It is doing much better internationally, but not by enough to make a real difference financially.
All Eyez on Me fell 78% to just $5.81 million over the weekend for a total of $38.60 million after ten days of release. The film got off to an amazing start, but it is quickly fading and could see its theater count hit this Friday. It will certainly lose a lot of its theaters the first weekend of July. The only other film in the sophomore class not in the top five was Rough Night. It held on well down just 41%, but this is a case of too little, too late, as it only pulled in $4.70 million over the weekend for a two-week total of $16.64 million. It was expected to earn more than that during its opening weekend. Furthermore, its theater average is low enough that it will lose a lot of theaters on Friday.
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