In F1® The Movie, Ruben Cervantes’ racing team is considered the worst of the worst. That’s a stark contrast from the movie itself, which crossed the box office finish line for an uncontested first place.
In its debut weekend, F1® The Movie earned $55.6 million domestically—nearly triple the amount our second-place winner took. And internationally, F1® did even better, skidding into an additional $88.4 million.
That knocks How to Train Your Dragon out of the sky and into second place. In its third week since release, it sunk its retractable teeth into another $19.4 million in the U.S. In total, the live-action remake has grossed $454.4 million worldwide.
Pixar’s Elio rounded out the top three by bringing in $10.7 million. So far, the movie has made $42.2 million in the United States. That maintains the movie’s status as Pixar’s worst-performing animation ever: It’ll need an additional $20 million to surpass the next-lowest Pixar film, Onward. Regardless, it seems unlikely this sci-fi movie will ever break free of its financial hole, let alone Earth’s atmosphere.
Elio narrowly escaped M3GAN 2.0’s clutches. The horror sequel snatched $10.2 million from the box office in its opening debut. Not a bad haul for a horror franchise, but it pales in comparison to the original film’s $30 million opening. Chalk it up to faulty programming.
28 Years Later rounds out the top five, chomping down on $9.7 million. Worldwide, these reanimated creatures have caused $103 million in box office damage.
2 Responses
As with “Elio” coming out so soon after “Dragon,” I’m pessimistic about how well “Fantastic Four” will perform, being right on the heels of “Superman,” which I expect to perform very well and probably be the biggest hit of the summer, ahead of “How to Train Your Dragon” and, if it breaks a billion, ahead of “Lilo and Stitch” (which is closing in on “Minecraft” both domestically and internationally, just as “How to Train Your Dragon” is domestically closing in on “Captain America: Brave New World”). I’m still impressed that “Sinners,” deservedly, did as well as it did. I didn’t see that movie until a month after it came out, and my screening still had a lot of people in it, who heartily enjoyed the film.
My sister and I went to see How to Train Your Dragon. It is hard to truly compare the live-action to the animated version with just one viewing, but I enjoyed the realism in the emotional scenes between Hiccup and his dad, Gobber, and Astrid. They basically matched all the iconic scenes but the live-action filming felt more natural than their rival Disney live-action remakes where a lot of things feel more muted in the adaptions. It’s awesome that their director has a talent for both types of filming and also interviewed with Plugged In!