The Summer of Animated Box Office

The next big animated release ...

Two high-profile motion pictures -- one called "live action with animated VFX", and the other a straight-ahead animated feature -- remain at the top of the Big List.

THREE DAYS OF GROSSES

1) JW: Fallen Kingdom -- 4,485 (+10) -- $60.3M (-59%) -- $265M

2) Incredibles 2 -- 4,410 -- $45M (-44%) -- $439.7M

3) Sicario…Soldado -- 3,055 -- $19.4M -- $19.4M (1st weekend)

4) Uncle Drew -- 2,742 -- $16.7M -- $16.7M (1st weekend)

5) Ocean’s 8 -- 3,426 (-230) -- $8.1M (-30%) -- $114.8M

6) Tag -- 3,176 (-206) -- $5.8M (-29%) -- $41.1M

7) Deadpool 2 -- 2,094 (-326) -- $3.5M (-33%) -- $310M

8) Solo -- 1,654 (-684) -- $2.55M -- $207.5M

9) Sanju -- 356 -- $2.48M -- $2.48M (1st weekend)

10) Hereditary -- 1,424 (-578) -- $2.1M (-40%) -- $39.3M

To date, Incredibles 2 has pulled in $564,711,514 around the globe, while Fallen Kingdom has a worldwide cume of $826,454,064.

Next animated feature in wide release: Hotel Transylvania 3, which opens on July 13th. HT1 made $358.4 million and HT2 collected $473.2 million in global box office receipts.) In November there are two major releases: How the Grinch Stole Christmas on November 9th (the third incarnation of the Seuss book), and Wreck-It Ralph 2 on November 21st.

The mice! The mice! Inside stories of Disney Animation (from the people who lived it. Ward Kimball speaks! John Musker reflects! Ron Clements tells of the trials and tribulation getting "The Little Mermaid" and "Aladdin" made!)) all in two exciting volumes ... Mouse in Transition and Mouse in Orbit. Available now! ... and into the future (we trust)!