Tag: Lightyear
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UK-Ireland box office sees ‘Minions: The Rise Of Gru’ knock ‘Elvis’ off the top spot
The Universal animation took £10.4m in its debut weekend.RankFilm (distributor) Three-day gross (July 1 – 3)Total gross to date Week 1. Minions: The Rise Of Gru (Universal) £10.4m £10.4m 1 2. Elvis (Warner Bros)£3m £10.2m 2 3. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount)£2.7m £68.0m 6 4. Jurassic World Dominion (Universal)£1.8m £30.4m 4 5. Lightyear (Disney) £863,720 £8.5m…
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‘Lightyear’ Is a Box-Office Dud, but It’s Poised to Be the Next Disney+ Hit
Pixar’s first theatrical release since pre-pandemic times was a box-office disappointment: “Lightyear” opened to 50.58 million last weekend in the U.S. and Canada, whiffing on (already low) projections by around 20 million. (It brought in an additional 12.43 million over the last week.) But that doesn’t mean Buzz is destined for the bin of forgotten…
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How John Carpenter’s 1982 ‘The Thing’ Became a Surprise Entry in This Weekend’s Top Ten
Forget the box office top ten estimated weekend charts published yesterday. They all left out one film: John Carpenter’s 1982 horror classic “The Thing.” The film, which played in around 730 theaters for a single showtime on Sunday only as a Fathom Events presentation, ended up in the #9 position for the three days with…
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Lightyear Spoiler Review: A Brand Deposit That Fails To Achieve Lift-Off
Expectations are the damnedest thing. Over nearly thirty years of making computer-animated feature films, Pixar Animation Studios has created a set of expectations that are gradually becoming impossible to overcome. Among its initial films, the studio made such wonderful original stories that seemed impossible to top. In the late-2000s, with a run of films like…
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‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ holds UK-Ireland box office lead; ‘Lightyear’ opens third
Mixed fortunes for titles amid hot weather for much of territory.RankFilm (distributor) Three-day gross (June 17 – 19)Total gross to date Week 1. Jurassic World Dominion (Universal) £5.7m £21.8m 2 2. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount) £4.2m £57.4m 4 3. Lightyear (Disney) £3.7m £3.7m 1 4. Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (Lionsgate) £189,597 £239,000 1…
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Korea Box Office: Strong ‘Witch’ Opening Spells Third Place Debut for ‘Lightyear’
The theatrical debut of much-anticipated local horror-action film “The Witch: Part 2. The Other One” dominated the Korean box office chart over the latest weekend and overshadowed the simultaneous release of Pixar title “Lightyear.”Distributed by Next Entertainment World, “The Witch: Part 2” conjured up an 8.21 million opening weekend from just shy of 1,800 screens…
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Box Office Thrives with ‘Maverick’ and Struggles with ‘Lightyear’ as Theaters Live and Die by Blockbusters
If the future for theaters is near-total reliance on a handful of top franchise films, this weekend suggests that plan could work. It was peak playtime with Father’s Day and the first federal observance of Juneteenth and while it broke no records, these results are the best since Covid.This weekend also contains the biggest disappointment…
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Box Office: Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ Underwhelms With 51 Million Debut as ‘Jurassic World’ Stays No. 1
To infinity and beyond? Not exactly…“Lightyear,” a spinoff story set in Pixar’s “Toy Story” universe, fell short of that boundless milestone in its box office debut, collecting a lackluster 51 million from 4,255 North American theaters. Family audiences, the movie’s prime demographic, have been largely absent since Covid. But even so, those ticket sales are…
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Chris Evans Says Reprising His ‘Fantastic Four’ Role In The MCU Would Be An “Easier Sell” Than Returning As Cap
It’s hard to argue that Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, hasn’t been one of the MCU’s bright points. The beloved character has been the heart of the massive cinematic universe since the beginning with “Captain America: The First Avenger,” giving us a superhero with a moral compass that matched his brawn.During a recent…
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How ‘Lightyear’ Took Pixar Into the Uncharted Space of IMAX
.Pixar’s return to movie theaters represents an additional milestone for the animation powerhouse: “Lightyear” is the studio’s first film shot in IMAX. It’s a theatrical spectacle befitting the vision of director Angus MacLane, who pictured the Buzz Lightyear origin story as a ’70s blockbuster movie that charged the imagination of “Toy Story” kid Andy “the…