Weekend box-office – 27th of June to 3rd of July 2015 – is it an emotional debut for Pixar’s Inside Out?

Critically, San Francisco’s animating legends Pixar may have wavered in the past few years but financially they’re as strong as ever. They’ve been fairly consistent financially since their debut twenty years ago: 1995’s Toy Story ($362 million), 1998’s A Bug’s Life ($363 million), 1999’s Toy Story 2 ($511 million), 2001’s Monsters Inc ($562 million), 2003’s Finding Nemo ($936 million), 2004’s The Incredibles ($631 million), 2006’s Cars ($461 million), 2007’s Ratatouille ($623 million), 2008’s WALL-E ($521 million), 2009’s Up ($731 million), 2010’s Toy Story 3 ($1 billion), 2011’s Cars 2 ($559 million), 2012’s Brave ($529 million) and 2013’s Monsters University ($743 million). Following a rare two year hiatus, Pixar are back with Inside Out, which challenges the record breaking behemoth that is Jurassic World. You can find last week’s predictions here.

US:

1. Jurassic World – Director: Colin Trevorrow – $106.6 million
2. Inside Out – Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen – $90.4 million
3. Spy – Paul Feig – $11.2 million
4. San Andreas – Brad Peyton – $8.7 million
5. Dope – Rick Famuyiwa – $6.1 million

UK:

1. Jurassic World – Colin Trevorrow – £11.1 million
2. Take That Live – £1 million
3. Spy – Paul Feig – £0.9 million
4. Mr Holmes – Bill Condon – £0.7 million
5. Entourage – Doug Ellin – £0.6 million

While Jurassic World does keep its first place spot, Inside Out is still a triumph as it’s the biggest opening for an original film since 2009’s Avatar. In this time period, original sci-fi works like Edge of Tomorrow have struggled but filmmakers such as Christopher Nolan (Inception, Interstellar) remain champions of the field. Indie comedy Dope makes a respectable fifth place entry. This week I’ve scored 5/10.

US:

1. Jurassic World – Colin Trevorrow
2. Inside Out – Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen
3. Ted 2 – Seth MacFarlane
4. Max – Boaz Yakin
5. Spy – Paul Feig

UK:

1. Minions – Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin
2. Jurassic World – Colin Trevorrow
3. Spy – Paul Feig
4. Slow West – John Maclean
5. Mr Holmes – Bill Condon

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World, this week’s UK and US number one.

Weekend box-office – 20th to 26th of June 2015 – Is it a walk in the (Jurassic) park for Chris Pratt?

Starring Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Richard Attenborough, Steven Spielberg’s 1993 sci-fi smash hit Jurassic Park had everything: critical and fan adoration and box-office phenomenon status with over $1 billion in ticket sales. The sequels however didn’t hit the mark with Spielberg’s 1997 follow up The Lost World taking $618 million and Joe Johnston’s 2001 effort Jurassic Park III receiving $368 million, despite additions such as Pete Postlethwaite and Julianne Moore. Jurassic World has taken an unorthodox approach by ditching the original cast for new blood such as underdog actors Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Bryce Dallas Howard (The Help), Jake Johnson (TV’s New Girl) and Vincent D’Onofrio (Netflix’s Daredevil) as well as indie director Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed). Last week we predicted it’d be number one but it hardly seems like to team to bring a record breaking smash hit.

US:

1. Jurassic World – Director: Colin Trevorrow – $208.8 million
2. Spy – Paul Feig – $15.6 million
3. San Andreas – Brad Peyton – $10.8 million
4. Insidious Chapter 3 – Leigh Whannell – $7.3 million
5. Pitch Perfect 2 – Elizabeth Banks – $6.4 million

UK:

1. Jurassic World – Colin Trevorrow – £19.4 million
2. Spy – Paul Feig – £1.5 million
3. San Andreas – Brad Peyton – £0.8 million
4. Insidious Chapter 3 – Leigh Whannell – £0.7 million
5. Pitch Perfect 2 – Elizabeth Banks – £0.4 million

While we had expected Jurassic World to be successful, we didn’t anticipate it stealing box-office records from Avengers Assemble and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. At the beginning of the year, we predicted that Age of Ultron, Spectre and Star Wars: The Force Awakens would be the big hitters with Jurassic World, Ant-Man, Terminator 5, Mission Impossible 5 and others lagging behind but this is just one in a series of upsets including the flops of Tomorrowland and Jupiter Ascending and the successes of Furious 7, Mad Max: Fury Road and Fifty Shades of Grey. This week I’ve scored 8/10.

US:

1. Jurassic World – Colin Trevorrow
2. Inside Out – Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen
3. Dope – Rick Famuyiwa
4. Spy – Paul Feig
5. San Andreas – Brad Peyton

UK:

1. Jurassic World – Colin Trevorrow
2. Mr Holmes – Bill Condon
3. Spy – Paul Feig
4. The Longest Ride – George Tillman Jr
5. Entourage – Doug Ellin

Chris Pratt in Jurassic World, This week’s US and UK number one.