Finding Dory Tops Box Office in Its Second Weekend

Disney Pixar's animated sequel is still holding first position into its second weekend, collecting $73.2 million and dipping just 46%, according to studio estimates from comScore. In only 10 days, the Finding Nemo follow-up has hooked $286.6 million in the USA and $396.9 million worldwide. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with comScore, said that the overall weekend was nearly identical in total box office gross to the same weekend a year ago when “Jurassic World” and “Inside Out” dominated the multiplex.

“The great continued performance by ‘Finding Dory’ bolstered a very mixed set of results for the remaining films in the Top 10,” he noted. “There was good news for one of the newcomers as Sony’s ‘The Shallows’ benefited from great reviews and social media buzz to creep up silently like a shark and surprised everyone with its performance.”

Fox's Independence Day: Resurgence, which carries a reported budget of 165 million dollars and opened with an estimated 41.6 million dollars Independence Day: Resurgence finished about 20% below recent forecasts, which had pegged the sequel to match the $50 million opening weekend from the 1996 original. It edged Kung Fu Panda 2 as the eighth-largest opening of 2016.

Central Intelligence is in third place with an estimated sell of 18.4 million dollars in tickets in its second weekend of showings. It has grossed over 69 million dollars in ten days of releasing. Two movies debuted in the fourth and fifth positions, Sony's shark thriller The Shallows at 16.7 million dollars and STX's Free State Of Jones at 7.8 million dollars.

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