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Sunday March 31, 2019
Box Office: Dumbo Drop
Disney's live-action “Dumbo,” directed by Tim Burton, finished first at the domestic box office, grossing $45 mil, about $11 milion ahead of the second weekend of Jordan Peele's “Us,” which fell 52.7% while adding another $33.6 for a domestic total of $128.2.
If that seems like a weak open for “Dumbo,” it is. Here's Box Office Mojo's rankings of the best opening weekends of Disney live-action remakes:
| RNK | MOVIE | OPENING | TOTAL | THTRS |
| 1 | Beauty and the Beast (2017) | $174,750,616 | $504,014,165 | 4,210 |
| 2 | Alice in Wonderland (2010) | $116,101,023 | $334,191,110 | 3,739 |
| 3 | The Jungle Book (2016) | $103,261,464 | $364,001,123 | 4,144 |
| 4 | Oz The Great and Powerful | $79,110,453 | $234,911,825 | 3,912 |
| 5 | Maleficent | $69,431,298 | $241,410,378 | 3,948 |
| 6 | Cinderella (2015) | $67,877,361 | $201,151,353 | 3,848 |
| 7 | Dumbo (2019) | $45,000,000 | $45,000,000 | 4,259 |
| 8 | 101 Dalmatians (1996) | $33,504,025 | $136,189,294 | 2,901 |
| 9 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | $26,858,726 | $77,041,381 | 3,763 |
| 10 | Pete's Dragon (2016) | $21,514,095 | $76,233,151 | 3,702 |
Not a good spot to be in. Adjust for inflation and it's behind “101 Dalmations,” too.
“Captain Marvel” finished third with another $20 mil. It's now at $353 domestically, which is the eighth-best domestic run for an MCU movie—behind, going up the chain, “Guardians 2,” “Cap/Civil War,” “Iron Man 3,” “Avengers/Ultron,” “Avengers,” “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Black Panther.” Meaning it's Marvel's second-biggest debut after “Black Panther.” It's also the No. 1 movie of the year worldwide, currently at $990 million.
Fifth for the weekend was “Unplanned,” an anti-abortion movie, at $6 mil. So that kind of thing is back again.
Of the top 10, I've already seen “Us” and “Captain Marvel,” and want to see “Dumbo” and “Hotel Mumbai,” which finished eighth at $3.1 mil.