Ellen DeGeneres’ “Finding Dory” smashes animated box office record June 18, 2016 - 12:11 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - “Finding Dory” has already broken a major box office record with a $9.2 million haul on Thursday, June 16 easily topping “Minions,” which previously held the record for highest grossing animated movie during Thursday previews, TheWrap said. “Minions,” released by Universal in 2015, grossed $6.2 million on a Thursday, while previous franchise installment “Despicable Me” grossed $4.7 million on a Thursday, as well. “Dory,” a sequel to “Finding Nemo,” crushed previous Pixar opening performances, including $4 million for “Toy Story 3” and $3.7 for “Inside Out.” “Finding Dory” is expected to open with an estimated $125 million, and is fighting for the position of the top opening for animated film of all time, currently held by “Shrek the Third” with $121.6 million. If it beats the opening of “Toy Story 3,” which earned $110 million in 2010, it would at least break a Pixar record. Heading into the weekend, “Dory” was Fandango’s top pre-selling animated movie of all time, beating previous record holder “Minions.” The sequel comes 13 years after “Finding Nemo,” which opened to $70.2 million and has grossed $936.7 million worldwide since. “Finding Dory” features the voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Ed O’Neill, Ty Burrell,Diane Keaton and Albert Brooks, and currently holds a “fresh” score of 95 percent on critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart‘s action comedy “Central Intelligence” fought its way to $1.84 million at the Thursday previews. Heading into the weekend, the film is projected to earn $35 million. “Central Intelligence” is about a man named Calvin (Hart) whose life didn’t turn out the way he had anticipated. Enter Bob Stone (Johnson), Calvin’s once-bullied high school classmate turned CIA agent. Bob enlists Calvin to help him on a top-secret mission, causing all sorts of ruckus. The action-comedy now has a score of 60 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and social media hype has been strong — Johnson and Hart asked for video reactions of fans after the Thursday night showings. The Thursday preview gross is a great start — in comparison, Hart’s “Ride Along 2” earned $1.26 million on that day back in January. “Barbershop: The Next Cut” made $735,000. New Line, Warner Bros. and Universal’s “Central Intelligence” cost roughly $50 million to produce.  Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |
