🎟️ Box Office Breakdown: ‘F1’ takes the checkered flag, ‘M3GAN’ stalls out…

The Dailies

The Dailies reports on the latest box office news from this week.

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1. 🏁 F1: The Movie: 🆕 $55.6M domestic opening, $144M global debut. Brad Pitt racing movie delivered Apple's long-awaited box office breakthrough with authentic Formula 1 thrills that demanded the IMAX treatment (55% of business came from premium formats). The $250M-budgeted racing epic scored an "A" CinemaScore and 97% audience score.
2. 🐉 How to Train Your Dragon: (Wk 3) $19.4M domestic weekend (-47%), $200.1M domestic total, $454.4M global. Now sitting at #8 on DreamWorks Animation's all-time domestic list and poised to overtake the original's $494M worldwide haul.
3. 🚀 Elio: (Wk 2) $10.7M domestic weekend (-49%), $42.2M domestic total, $73M global. Pixar's latest continues to struggle despite solid reviews.
4. 🤖 M3GAN 2.0: 🆕 $10.2M domestic opening, $17.2M global debut. The killer doll's sequel earned about a third of the original's $30.4M opening. It seems the AI horror phenomenon may have been more of a viral moment than a franchise foundation.
5. 🧟‍♂️ 28 Years Later: (Wk 2) $9.7M domestic weekend (-68%), $50.4M domestic total, $103M global. Danny Boyle's zombie sequel suffered a brutal second-weekend drop, though it's still tracking toward profitability on its $60M budget.
6. 🌺 Lilo & Stitch: (Wk 6) $6.9M domestic weekend (-29%), $400.1M domestic total, $946M global. Continues its march toward becoming 2025's first billion-dollar blockbuster, with a sequel already greenlit.
7. 🕴️ Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: (Wk 6) $4.15M domestic weekend (-36%), $186M domestic total, $542M global.
8. 👩‍❤️‍👨 Materialists: (Wk 3) $3M domestic weekend (-53%), $30.4M domestic total, $47M global. A24's rom-com becomes their biggest hit of the year, surpassing ‘Warfare's’ $25.78M total.
9. 🩰 From the World of John Wick: Ballerina: (Wk 4) $2.13M domestic weekend (-53%), $55.5M domestic total, $134M global.
10. 🥋 Karate Kid: Legends: (Wk 5) $1M domestic weekend (-58%), $51.6M domestic total, $89M global.

The big picture: This weekend's $127.6M domestic take was down 17.3% from last year, capping off the weakest June since 2001 (excluding pandemic years). With fewer releases (only 36 this June vs. 74 in 2018) and underwhelming tentpoles this month, June has mainly been carried by May holdovers like ‘Lilo & Stitch’ and ‘Mission: Impossible.’ July's loaded lineup of ‘Jurassic World Rebirth,’ ‘Superman,’ and ‘Fantastic Four’ needs to deliver big to salvage the summer.

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