Box Office: Danny Boyle’s ’28 Years Later’ Bites Off $5.8M in Previews, Pixar’s ‘Elio’ Takes in $3M

Universal’ How to train your dragon He won the Jneteenth Holiday box office race on Thursday with $ 9.7 million for ticket sale, since he goes to his second weekend with an early national tour of almost $ 125 million.

The live action remake of the famous 2010 animated film by DreamWorks Animation is confident that it will remain at the top of the list at its second year departure despite the entry of two new photos of summer events, Danny Boyle’s 28 years later and Pixar’s Eliowhich took advantage of the holidays starting the previous views early in the day. (How to train your dragon It has a great advantage in playing in IMAX cinemas).

Sony’s zombie sequel, from Sony, reports a view of $ 5.8 million, sufficient to place secondly on Thursday, at least not officially (the previous views are ultimately folded to the gross day, or in this case, the Friday’s route). Sony suggests a weekend that opens the range of $ 28 million, while the tracking shows the Boyle movie at $ 30 million or more. Others think it could scare up to $ 40 million to $ 45 million.

So far, however, 28 years laterIt does not go so well with the public despite brilliant criticisms. Currently, the score of Rotten Tomatoes critics is 92 percent, while the audience score is only 69 percent.

28 years later – The first in a planned trilogy – Meet Boyle with the writer Alex Garland 25 years later 28 days He hits the big screen and became a cult classic. Jodie Eat, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams and Ralph Fiennes star in the photo, which is established almost three decades after the first film events.

Elio – An original film about a child whose desire to travel to outer space and interact with aliens becomes a reality – won $ 3 million from Thursday’s previous advances and select special access projections on Wednesday.

The follow -up shows the animated film that opens to $ 30 million in North America, although Pixar is prepared for the possibility that the film may suffer the worst 3 days opening for the animation study. Elementary ($ 29.6 million) in June 2023 and his first film, 1995’s Toy history ($ 29.1 million), not adjusted by inflation. (Toy history He opened thanksgiving and accumulated $ 39 million during the long five -day festive weekend).

At the moment, ElementaryThe opening was called no less than a debacle, however, it became a blow of sleeping on the way to win almost $ 500 million worldwide. Pixar and the Disney parent company, they trust that Elio It will have the same type of power of permanence throughout the summer when children arise from school. Until now, Elio is adorned with a better score of critics in Rotten Tomatoes than Elementary. Until now, there is no audience score at RT.

Pixar has been struggling to find its balance in a world where original animated stories do not open to the heights they once had, they think in the north of $ 70 million, in the post-pandemic world. And during the pandemic years, the then Disney CEO, Bob Chapek, decided to send three pixar titles directly to Disney+ at the national level, including Rotting red, Luca and the Oscar winner SoulSaid a decision, the rivals told families to wait to watch a movie at home. (The three were considered transmission hits).

But Pixar and Disney invested the course and once again they commit to telling original theatrical stories, mixed with known IP, such as the box office success of last year and record records. Inside out 2The best reheating photo of 2024, the superior title for Pixar and the best animated of all time with more than $ 1.69 billion in world sales of tickets, not adjusted by inflation.