Neither Pixar nor zombies were enough to topple How to Train Your Dragon from the No. 1 slot at North American box offices over the weekend. The Universal Pictures live-action remake remained the top film, bringing in $37 million in ticket sales in its second weekend, despite the sizeable new releases of Elio and 28 Years Later, according to studio estimates Sunday. How to Train Your Dragon has rapidly amassed $358.2 million worldwide. Pixar's Elio, on the other hand, had a particularly tough weekend, the AP reports.
Six years after its last entry, the Dean DeBlois-directed How to Train Your Dragon has proven a potent revival of the DreamWorks Animation franchise. A sequel is already in the works for the $150 million production, which remakes the 2010 animated tale about a Viking boy and his dragon. The Walt Disney Co. animation studio has often launched some of its biggest titles in June. But Elio, a science fiction adventure about a boy who dreams of meeting aliens, collected only $21 million, the lowest opening ever for Pixar. Disney and Pixar spent at least $150 million making Elio, which didn't fare any better internationally than it did in North America, bringing in just $14 million from 43 territories. Next weekend should also be a competitive one in movie theaters, per the AP, with F1, from Apple and Warner Bros., and Universal's Megan 2.0 launching in cinemas.
With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore:
- How to Train Your Dragon, $37 million.
- 28 Years Later, $30 million.
- Elio, $21 million.
- Lilo & Stitch, $9.7 million.
- Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning, $6.6 million.
- Materialists, $5.8 million.
- Ballerina, $4.5 million.
- Karate Kid: Legends, $2.4 million.
- Final Destination: Bloodlines, $1.9 million.
- Kuberaa, $1.7 million.
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