{"id":226365,"date":"2025-06-30T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226365\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:16:11","slug":"f1-breaks-through-m3gan-2-0-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226365\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 breaks through; M3GAN 2.0 tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend proved to be a great one for Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski, with\u00a0F1\u00a0disproving naysayers and racing its way to the top of the domestic box office. A few months ago, many box office pundits worried the movie would flop, given that Formula One isn\u2019t nearly as popular in North America as it is in the rest of the world. There were also concerns that Apple Original Films\u2014who have yet to score a major theatrical hit\u2014had poured a ton of money into a film with questionable prospects. Yet, the movie\u2019s quality and star power, boosted by excellent word-of-mouth (it earned a terrific A CinemaScore), propelled it to a $55.6 million domestic debut (according to Comscore), making it the second-biggest opening of Brad Pitt\u2019s career after\u00a0World War Z. That\u2019s about $5 million more than we predicted<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n

While that\u2019s a very respectable number,\u00a0F1\u00a0was an even bigger hit overseas, grossing another $88.4 million and bringing its international opening to over $144 million. Those are blockbuster numbers, and the thinking is that\u00a0F1\u00a0should hold up well over the 4th of July weekend, especially as it\u2019s proving popular with family audiences. Speaking of families, they continued to turn out in droves for the\u00a0How to Train Your Dragon\u00a0remake, which brought in $19.4 million and surged past the $200 million domestic mark. Meanwhile, Pixar\u2019s\u00a0Elio\u2014which flopped last weekend\u2014didn\u2019t have a strong hold, dropping 49% to $10.7 million and bringing its domestic total to $42 million. It likely won\u2019t have the legs Disney was no doubt hoping for.<\/p>\n

Next up are two huge disappointments, proving that while horror fans will turn out when the movie is good, they don\u2019t appreciate being misled. How else to explain the dismal opening for\u00a0M3GAN 2.0, which earned just $10.5 million, only about a third of what the original opened with? Once word got out that it was more of a sci-fi action-adventure than a horror flick, that audience stayed away. Mixed reactions from horror fans also seem to be hurting\u00a028 Years Later, which fell a massive 68% in its second weekend to $9.7 million. A $50 million domestic total isn\u2019t bad, and overseas it\u2019s already passed $100 million, but there\u2019s no doubt Sony will be watching closely to see how the follow-up,\u00a028 Years Later: The Bone Temple, performs before greenlighting the third and final film in the trilogy.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile,\u00a0Lilo & Stitch\u00a0blasted past the $400 million mark this weekend with another $6.9 million.\u00a0Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning\u00a0continued to inch toward the $200 million mark with a $4.15 million weekend, bringing its domestic total to around $185 million (internationally, it\u2019s made more than double that).\u00a0Materialists\u00a0also seems to be heading toward a more modest run than expected, falling another 49% to $2.99 million and a domestic total just over $30 million. That\u2019s solid business for its home studio A24, but not the breakout hit many had predicted.<\/p>\n

Another underperformer is\u00a0Ballerina: From the World of John Wick, which is wrapping up its run with $2.1 million this weekend and a $55 million total. Ironically, it remains Lionsgate\u2019s highest-grossing film since their last\u00a0Hunger Games installment, highlighting just how rough a patch the studio is going through. Another failed franchise relaunch is\u00a0Karate Kid: Legends, which brought in just $1 million this weekend, for a mediocre $51 million total. One lesson Hollywood needs to learn is that these franchise reboots often don\u2019t work, a trend we dig into right HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next weekend is a holiday and sees the release of\u00a0Jurassic World: Rebirth. Will it break $100 million in its first weekend? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekend proved to be a great one for Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski, with\u00a0F1\u00a0disproving naysayers and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,4199,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-226365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114771799879170952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}