Underperformer?

TS4 might be headed for a huge opening, but that doesn't mean it's not an underperformer! ... UnderPerformer! .... UNDERPERFORMER!!. (Just ask the entertainment press.)

THREE DAYS OF GROSSES

1) Toy Story 4 -- 4,575 -- $123.7M -- $123.7M (1st weekend)

2) Child’s Play -- 3,007 -- $15.1M -- $15.1M (1st weekend)

3) Aladdin -- 3,435 (-121) -- $13.8M (-20%) -- $289.1M

4) Men In Black -- Sony -- 4,224 -- $10.9M (-64%) -- $52.8M

5) Secret Life of Pets 2 -- 3,804 (-760) -- $10.7M (-56%) -- $118M

6) Rocketman -- 2,414 (-607) -- $5.8M (-38%) -- $77.4M

7) John Wick 3 -- 1,607 (-426) -- $4.1M (-36%) -- $156M

8) Godzilla, King of the Big Lizards -- 2,368 (-839) -- $3.7M (-57%) -- $102.3M

9) Dark Phoenix -- 2,054 (-1,667) -- $3.6M (-61%) -- $60.1M

10) Anna -- 2,114 -- $3.46M -- $3.46M (1st weekend)

The big criticism on Toy Story 4? "You should have opened it on FATHER'S DAY WEEKEND!" ... at THANKSGIVING!" (etc.) So third best opening of an animated feature is a Fai.Lure. (It'll only end up with a quarter billion dollars globally after its first three days of release. I'll have to take an opiate to get to sleep tonight, I'm so upset.)

Meantime, The Secret Life of Pets 2 has collected $118m domestically and $185m worldwide. Does anybody see Chris Meledandri crying?

The movie that is holding up best, of course, is the live-action Aladdin. And the movie projected to rampage across the box office landscape in July is the animated remake of the animated Lion King. Diz Co. looks as though it will have a grand summer.