(Bloomberg) — “DC League of Super-Pets,” an animated family film from Warner Bros., topped a weaker North American box office this weekend, as the major summer moviegoing season starts to draw to a close.
- “Super-Pets” made $23 million in its opening weekend across 4,314 domestic cinemas, according to data from Comscore Inc. released Monday. That’s lower than Box Office Pro’s forecast of $26 million to $39 million.
- “Nope,” a Universal Pictures horror film directed by Jordan Peele, slid to second place, selling $18.6 million worth of tickets, Comscore said. The top ten movies combined made $93.9 million, a poorer result than the Box Office Pro forecast of a 10% to 20% decline from the $124 million the top ten movies made a week earlier.
Key Insights
- “DC League of Super-Pets” is based on the DC Comics series. It follows crime-fighting pets, including a dog owned by Superman, and stars Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. The movie has mostly positive critical reviews, with a 71% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
- The performance of “Super-Pets” is middling for a family film in the pandemic era. It had far weaker openings than both “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” distributed by Universal, and “Sonic the Hedgehog 2,” a Paramount Pictures movie. But it outperformed another Paramount picture, “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank,” which made $6.3 million in its domestic debut earlier in July.
- After Sony Corp. releases the Brad Pitt-led action film “Bullet Train” on Friday, the schedule for big-budget movies is expected to slow until later in 2022.
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(Updates with final box office figures in first and second bullets.)
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