BOX OFFICE: Pixar Back On Top As FINDING DORY Swims Straight To #1 With Record Breaking Opening Weekend

BOX OFFICE: Pixar Back On Top As FINDING DORY Swims Straight To #1 With Record Breaking Opening Weekend

We're still waiting on Pixar to make a Marvel movie, but they've found great success this weekend with animated sequel Finding Dory. Hit the jump for updates on that, X-Men: Apocalypse, and more.

By JoshWilding - Jun 18, 2016 12:06 PM EST
Filed Under: Animated Features
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
2016's next big superhero movie is Suicide Squad, but there are still quite a few other blockbusters to be excited about over the next six weeks or so before that DC Comics adaptation is released. One of those is Finding Dory, and after a massive $55 million yesterday, the Pixar sequel now looks set to have a record breaking opening weekend of $139 million. That means it will have the biggest debut of all-time for an animated movie (until Toy Story 4 comes along), topping Shrek the Third's $121.6 million.

The movie has broken a number of records this weekend, and looks set to dominate for the next couple of weeks. Pixar has had mixed success with sequels in the past, and with 2016 proving to be a very hit or miss year for movies at the box office, they have to be relieved that this one has done so well. Elsewhere, future Black Adam Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson continues to prove himself a major box office draw after Central Intelligence debuted with what looks to be a solid $35 million debut.



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