Well it looks like Avengers: Endgame has once again topped the box office for a 3rd weekend at #1. The film manages to edge out Detective Pikachu this weekend with an estimated $63M this weekend dropping an estimated 57% bringing it's domestic total to $723M, surpassing Black Panther's domestic of $700M. Endgame has now become the highest MCU film domestically. Additionally the film has now earned $2.4B worldwide. As of now it does seem to stand a solid chance at surpassing Avatar's worldwide total of $2.7B. With these heavy weekend drops, it does seem to be headed for a $760M-$900M domestic total. Although I see it finishing somewhere in the high $700M mid $800M range. Avengers will probably not surpass The Force Awakens domestic total just due to how frontloaded Endgame is currently performing. Still it should surpass Avatar's domestic to become the 2nd highest grossing film domestically while potentially dethroning Avatar's worldwide total. We will see.
Debuting in 2nd place is Detective Pikachu, which opened to an estimated $58M. We already discussed our predictions and how we overestimated it during our Friday box office article. Either way, this is still a solid start for the franchise and with the good reception, it has the possibility to have good holds in the future weeks. Aside from Aladdin, Pikachu will pretty much have a majority of the rest of this month to itself. Who knows, if the reception to Aladdin is bad, then maybe more families will choose Pikachu. Movies can also co-exist so both films could end up performing well. Either way, with an A- Cinemascore, word of mouth on this film should be pretty solid. Sure, this might not be making a billion but we shouldn't of set the bar so high in the first place.
In 3rd place is Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson comedy, The Hustle with an estimated $13.53M. Seems like a solid opening, I'm not sure what the budget exactly is but it should hold ok however the negative reception from reviews and audiences could hurt it.
In 4th place, The Intruder managed to avoid the typical big second weekend drop for a horror film only dropping an estimated 39% with a total of $6.6M bringing it's domestic total to $20M which is good considering how low it'd budget is. Should be a profitable and successful run.
Rounding out the Top 5 is Long Shot which after having a small opening last weekend managed to only drop 37% with a total of $6.12M bringing it's estimate total to $19.73M.
Outside the Top 5, newcomer Poms only managed to open to 6th place with $5.11M total while Tolkien opened to only $2.15M for an estimated 9th place finish. Shazam managed to earn another $1.06M although it dropped yet another 57% bringing it's domestic total to $137M. It should be able to hit $140M by the end of it's run which is still solid. Additionally, Captain Marvel dropped 57% this weekend with $1.81M bringing it's domestic total to over $423M.
So Endgame once again won the #1 spot for a 3rd weekend in a row (The first Avengers and Infinity War managed to do the same as well). I'm short of disappointed Pikachu didn't go to #1 because it would've been interesting to see a movie like Pikachu beat Avengers but still happy that both movies did fairly well. Next week we see the release of John Wick: Chapter 3 as the summer box office heats up. Who will win next weekend's box office? Will Avengers reign once again or will John Wick manage to come atop? Check back in for our next weekend box office rundown!
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