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Sunday May 26, 2019
Box Office: ‘Aladdin’ Solid But No ‘Beauty’
Disney's live-action “Aladdin,” with a couple of good-looking unknowns in the leads, and the hugely known Will Smith as the hugely mocked genie, opened OK over Memorial Day weekend, grossing $86.1 mil. Among Disney's live-action remakes, that ranks upper tier but not top tier. It's the highest-ranking live action Disney remake to not gross $100 million opening weekend:
Movie | Gross | Thtrs | Open Wknd | Open % | |
1 | Beauty and the Beast (2017) | $504,014,165 | 4,210 | $174,750,616 | 34.67% |
2 | Alice in Wonderland (2010) | $334,191,110 | 3,739 | $116,101,023 | 34.74% |
3 | The Jungle Book (2016) | $364,001,123 | 4,144 | $103,261,464 | 28.37% |
4 | Aladdin (2019) | $86,100,000 | 4,476 | $86,100,000 | n/a |
5 | Oz The Great and Powerful | $234,911,825 | 3,912 | $79,110,453 | 33.68% |
6 | Maleficent | $241,410,378 | 3,948 | $69,431,298 | 28.76% |
7 | Cinderella (2015) | $201,151,353 | 3,848 | $67,877,361 | 33.74% |
8 | Dumbo (2019) | $112,701,413 | 4,259 | $45,990,748 | 40.81% |
9 | 101 Dalmatians (1996) | $136,189,294 | 2,901 | $33,504,025 | 24.60% |
10 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | $77,041,381 | 3,763 | $26,858,726 | 34.86% |
11 | Pete's Dragon (2016) | $76,233,151 | 3,702 | $21,514,095 | 28.22% |
Reviews were mixed (57% on RT) but let's assume it does what most of these have done and gross 28-34% of its total on opening weekend. That means total domestic will be between $260 and $300. One assumes it‘ll do better abroad, where it’s already grossed $121, since all Disney live-actions general earn 60-70% of their worldwide total in other countries. If these percentages hold (28-34/60-70), “Aladdin” could gross anywhere from $650 million to $1 billion abroad.
Of the two other openers, “Brightburn” (scary Superboy) and “Booksmart” (“Superbad” w/girls), the latter received great reviews (98%), the former meh reviews (59%), and neither blew the lid off the box office. “Brightburn” finished in fifth place with $7.5 while the critics darling finished in sixth with $6.5. Way of the world. Doesn't pay to be booksmart. I could‘ve told you that.
Meanwhile, “John Wick 3” added another $24 for second place but first place among “Wick” movies; it squeaked over the $100 million domestic mark, which no “Wick” movie has ever done. In third place, “Avengers: Endgame” added another $16.8 for a $798 domestic total. Tomorrow, it will become just the second movie (after “The Force Awakens”) to pass $800 mil domestic, but it’ll have to settle for second place. It won't catch “Force” at $936. On the adjusted chart, it's in 21st place. On the worldwide chart, it's still more than $100 million away from No. 1 “Avatar”: $2.78 billion vs. 2.67 billion.