Alien invaders were no match for cute fish at the box office this weekend, as ‘Finding Dory’ dominated for a second week in a row. ‘Finding Dory’ continues to power along with a second global weekend over $100M, taking the estimated collection to date to almost $400M already. In North America, the total is already up to an amazing $287M after just 10 days of release, posting a strong hold of -46% this weekend and holding the #1 spot. Internationally, ‘Finding Dory’ is following a staggered release to take advantage of local holidays and has opened in only a few key markets. New openings were strong in France and Spain while ‘Finding Dory’ plays extremely strongly in Australia and New Zealand while in China it is about to be the #1 Pixar release of all-time. Like the US, holds in the second weekend were strong, especially across Latin America. With the gross to date earned on ‘Finding Dory’, that now means that Pixar releases have grossed over $10Bn globally over 17 movies starting in 1995 with ‘Toy Story’.
The records that Finding Dory broke in just the initial few days are impressive and include the opening weekend record for an animated film, the largest single day and opening day for an animated film. It also took the record for the largest per-theater average for a wide opening animated release.
