LOS ANGELES -- Inside Out may be the first Pixar film not to debut at No. 1, but its strong $90.4 million domestic launch still ranks as the second-highest opening weekend in the studio's history.
The Pete Docter-directed film blew past early tracking expectations of $60 million and ended up finishing a close second to Universal Pictures' Jurassic World.
The latest installment of the dinosaur franchise added $106.6 million to its total in the United States and Canada, the second-biggest haul in history for a film in its second weekend, behind only the $103.1 million that Marvel's The Avengers scored in its weekend No. 2 in 2012.
Jurassic World, directed by Colin Trevorrow and starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, raised its worldwide total to an estimated $981.3 million.
Spy, San Andreas and new release Dope helped to boost the box office 65 percent higher than it was the same weekend a year ago, when Think Like a Man Too opened with $29.2 million. Year-to-date, the box office is up about 6.2 percent.
Strong reviews propelled Inside Out, about an 11-year-old Midwestern girl named Riley who is steered through a life-changing move to San Francisco by the emotions in her head: Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling). Lauded by critics at the Cannes Film Festival, the film has a 98 percent positive rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and an A grade from audience polling firm CinemaScore.
Only Toy Story 3, with a $110.3 million debut weekend in 2010, has opened bigger for Disney-owned Pixar.
As expected, families turned out en mass: An estimated 71 percent of moviegoers were families, and 38 percent of the audience were 12 or younger. About 56 percent of moviegoers were female.
Jurassic World may have prevented Inside Out from claiming the top spot at the box office, but Hollis said the dino film built momentum for his new release.
Melissa McCarthy's Spy finished in third place and added $11.2 million in its third weekend, a 33 percent drop from last week. The comedy has made $75 million.
The earthquake film San Andreas, starring Dwayne Johnson, came in at No. 4, adding $8.7 million. Its domestic haul to date is $133 million.
The new comedy-drama Dope rounded out the top five with a solid $6.1 million debut. Open Road Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide reportedly acquired the film at the Sundance Film Festival for $7 million.
The film, written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, was made with help from producers Forest Whitaker and Nina Bongiovi, as well as executive producer Pharrell Williams and co-executive producer Sean Combs. It follows nerdy high school seniors Malcolm (Shameik Moore), Jib (Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) after they accidentally cross paths with neighborhood drug dealer Dom (rapper ASAP Rocky).
The film earned largely positive reviews and an A-minus CinemaScore. Audiences were almost split evenly between male and female, but they skewed young: About 55 percent were younger than 25. An estimated 43 percent were black.
Unlike most other independent films, Dope opened in wide release (2,002 screens) right off the bat.
In limited release, The Overnight opened to an estimated $61,523 on just three screens in New York and Los Angeles, making its per screen average $20,507. The film, which stars Adam Scott, Jason Schwartzman, Taylor Schilling and Judith Godreche, follows two couples in Los Angeles who meet for a dinner party that gets unexpectedly intimate.
Also in limited release: Fox Searchlight's Me and Earl and the Dying Girl added $364,000 in its second weekend, bringing its 10-day total to about $645,000.
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The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Rentrak:
- Jurassic World, Universal, $106,588,440, 4,291 locations, $24,840 average, $402,800,095, two weeks.
- Inside Out, Disney, $90,440,272, 3,946 locations, $22,919 average, $90,440,272, one week.
- Spy, 20th Century Fox, $11,225,366, 3,558 locations, $3,155 average, $75,099,815, three weeks.
- San Andreas, Warner Bros., $8,706,339, 3,177 locations, $2,740 average, $132,695,233, four weeks.
- Dope, Open Road, $6,100,010, 2,002 locations, $3,047 average, $6,100,010, one week.
- Insidious Chapter 3, Focus Features, $4,063,701, 2,553 locations, $1,592 average, $45,322,149, three weeks.
- Pitch Perfect 2, Universal, $3,519,440, 2,146 locations, $1,640 average, $177,683,820, six weeks.
- Mad Max: Fury Road, Warner Bros., $3,033,049, 1,424 locations, $2,130 average, $143,819,878, six weeks.
- Avengers: Age of Ultron, Disney, $2,847,404, 1,662 locations, $1,713 average, $449,447,357, eight weeks.
- Tomorrowland, Disney, $2,216,375, 1,764 locations, $1,256 average, $87,903,675, five weeks.
- Entourage, Warner Bros., $1,927,183, 1,304 locations, $1,478 average, $29,637,317, three weeks.
- Love & Mercy, Roadside Attractions, $1,748,331, 791 locations, $2,210 average, $7,204,136, three weeks.
- I'll See You in My Dreams, Bleecker Street, $685,101, 287 locations, $2,387 average, $4,058,635, six weeks.
- ABCD 2, UTV Communications, $444,195, 146 locations, $3,042 average, $444,195, one week.
- Aloha, Sony, $401,336, 470 locations, $854 average, $20,038,257, four weeks.
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Fox Searchlight, $364,039, 68 locations, $5,354 average, $657,451, two weeks.
- Cinderella, Disney, $344,535, 275 locations, $1,253 average, $199,833,128, 15 weeks.
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, Sony, $330,666, 267 locations, $1,238 average, $69,285,729, 10 weeks.
- Home, 20th Century Fox, $315,613, 413 locations, $764 average, $174,113,337, 13 weeks.
- Far From the Madding Crowd, Fox Searchlight, $263,673, 256 locations, $1,030 average, $11,282,558, eight weeks.
MovieStyle on 06/26/2015