Early Summer Box Office

Remakes of Disney animated hits continue to score; sequels to aliens and agents in dark suits don't.

THREE DAYS OF GROSSES

1) Men In Black: Yet Again -- 4,224 -- $26.3M -- $26.3M (1st weekend)

2) Secret Life Of Pets 2 -- 4,564 (+3) -- $23.7M (-49%) -- $91.9M

3) Aladdin -- 3,556 (-249) -- $17.1M (-30%) -- $263.8M

4) Dark Phoenix -- 3,721 -- $8.3M (-74%) -- $51M

5) Rocketman -- 3,021 (-589) -- $8.3M (-40%) -- $65.6M

6) Godzilla: King of the Big Fat Lizards -- 3,207 (-901) -- $7.9M (-48%) -- $93.4M

7) Shaft -- 2,952 -- $7.1M -- $7.1M (1st weekend)

8) John Wick 3 -- 2,033 (-743) -- $5.6M (-25%) -- $148.1M

9) Late Night -- 2,218 (+2214) -- $4.7M (+1811%) -- $4.9M

10) Ma -- 1,794 (1,022) -- $3.8M (-51%) -- $40.5M

Aladdin (-30%) and John Wick 3 (-25%) have the two two smallest declines on the Big List. Secret Life of Pets 2 drops by half, while Men In Black fails to perform anywhere close to the level of its predecessors.

The Secret Life of Pets 2 had a domestic gross that was less than half the original's take when it opened domestically ($46.6 million vs. $104.3 million) so it's got a steep mountain to climb if it hopes to get anywhere near the worldwide gross of $875,457,937 that the first entry earned. (Just now it has a global take of approximately $140 million.)

Meantime, Toy Story 4 is tracking strongly ... with an opening weekend projection north of $130 million in the U.S. of A. and Canada when it'sreleased June 20th.