Toy Story 4‘s second-weekend success comes at the expense of another, extremely different toy story. Annabelle Comes Home debuted in second place with a $20.3 million weekend. This marks the lowest opening for a movie set in Warner Bros. and New Line’s Conjuring Universe started by James Wan in 2013, with the other two entries in the deadly doll trio—Annabelle and Annabelle: Creation—opening to $37 million and $35 million. Annabelle Comes Home should be fine in the long run given its assumedly minor budget, but WB will have to keep an eye on those diminishing returns.
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Meanwhile, Danny Boyle‘s Yesterday premiered in third place with $17 million. It’s a bit of a disappointing note to start on given Boyle’s skill, the script from Richard Curtis, and general buzz around a Beatles-focused movie. It’s possible audiences are just getting tired of films built around the classic rock hits they could get from a Spotify playlist, considering Rocketman has only garnered $84 million domestically after five weeks. (Although you can’t ignore the insane success of Bohemian Rhapsody last year.)
Avengers: Endgame continued its bid to become the highest-grossing movie of all time, “returning” to theaters with “new” content this weekend. It looks like the Russo Brothers‘ massive Marvel movie landed just short for now, garnering another $5.5 million domestic and around $2.3 million abroad, leaving it $26 million behind Avatar‘s all-time record.
Speaking of milestones, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum crossed the $300 million mark worldwide over the weekend, a major accomplishment for the Keanu Reeves-led franchise considering the first two entries made $88 million and $171 million worldwide, respectively.
Check out the weekend’s top 10 estimates below, and be back here next week to see if Spider-Man: Far From Home can swing to the top of the box office.
| Rank | Title | Weekend | Total |
| 1. | Toy Story 4 | $57,932,000 | $236,921,809 |
| 2. | Annabelle Comes Home | $20,370,000 | $31,204,459 |
| 3. | Yesterday | $17,000,000 | $17,000,000 |
| 4. | Aladdin (2019) | $9,344,000 | $305,861,946 |
| 5. | The Secret Life of Pets 2 | $7,090,000 | $131,202,000 |
| 6. | Men in Black International | $6,550,000 | $65,030,511 |
| 7. | Avengers: Endgame | $5,537,000 | $841,318,161 |
| 8. | Child’s Play (2019) | $4,276,607 | $23,405,006 |
| 9. | Rocketman | $3,870,000 | $84,173,960 |
| 10. | John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum | $3,175,000 | $161,315,088 |
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