Toy Story 3 celebrated its second weekend at #1 with an excellent three-day gross of $59 million dollars!
Thanks to the film’s success, Woody and Buzz flew past Pixar benchmarks with much ease, landing Pixar’s 11th at a domestic lifetime gross of:
$226,552,000 $226,889,351
Here’s how the weekend played out: Toy Story 3 started off healthy with $17.9 million on Friday, but it wasn’t until the next couple of days that the film began its record busting spree!
In fact, Saturday’s take of $22.6 million single handedly catapulted Pixar’s 11th past the domestic total of both Toy Story ($191M) and Ratatouille ($206M) just three days after it took on A Bug’s Life.
Think that’s where it ends? Analysts say that Lee Unkrich’s masterpiece earned somewhere around $18.4 million on Sunday, safely passing WALL•E‘s domestic take.
Update: Actuals are in. Look above for a total re-write of Sunday’s post.
Notice: Your last chance to catch Toy Story 3 in IMAX 3D is on June 29th, 2010. I’m seeing it today in the larger-than-life format — can’t wait!
Your thoughts? Predictions?
Last modified: June 27, 2010
Don’t, watching it in 3-D is terible. Trust me. I saw it with DD 3-D, the movie just wasn’t made for 3-D.
Woah woah woah.
Last day to see it in IMAX is in two days?!
Seriously? Movies are in IMAX for only 1 1 /2 weeks… lame.
Anon: I heard from my mom to not see it in 3D, all it was was depth. But I can imagine Day and Night to be pretty spectacular.
well, that’s what 3D is. What else did expect apart from depth?
I think the movie looks amazing in 3D. You feel like you’re in the same room with woody.
Anonymous — I’ve seen it in 3D three times. Personally, 3D is enjoyable for me but I respect how you feel about it. This is just my first time seeing it in IMAX 3D.
wisecookiesheet — I think TS3 is great in 3D but if anything, see it in 3D for Day & Night. 🙂 By the way, Toy Story 3 is out of IMAX in 2 days to make way for Eclipse, believe it or not.
Eclipse? Seriously? Lets protest!
The 29th? NO!! I was going to see it next week. I don’t think I’ll be able to make it now. 🙁
The closest Imax is too far for me to drive myself, And I needed to wait for my dad to get off work to go with him. This really sucks. had I known it was only going to be 2 weeks I would have tried to plan around this earlier.
wow, quite a lot of money pixar made out of this “masterpiece”.
I think it’s about time they started paying their animators more then just the gas money from home to work.
I wouldn’t mind geting paid just gas money to work there
Anon 2: I know. But I’ll have to see it to say something more.
Eww. For Eclipse? Hold on for a moment here while I cure my sickness… Yuck.
We’re getting the news in Japan! Here is a picture from Reuters Japan with TS3 characters.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20100628-00000217-reu-ent.view-000
In Japan, I’m just hoping TS3 gets close or (crosses fingers) beats the all-time animated grossing movie which is Spirited Away (2002) by Ghibli.
I recently came back from the IMAX 3D screening and it looked even better on the mega-screen. I’m sorry if you guys will have to miss it, but if you can, there are still two days left.
Really disappointed tomorrow’s the last day for IMAX, I’m not gonna get to see it. 🙁 Glad it’s really rakin’ it in though!
—Leirin
Going to see it one more time in IMAX 3D tomorrow morning before it leaves. The movie is setting all sorts of IMAX records for animation and it’s giving way for Eclipse which is not really an IMAX type of movie imho. No worries though. Eclipse will open huge but TS3 will withstand it. Like New Moon, Eclipse will open huge but will fall off a cliff the following weeks once the initial rush is done. Heck, I even bet that Eclipse drops off the top 10 charts before TS3 does.
I watched it in 2D. I’m OK with 3D as a concept, but the implementation isn’t quite there yet. Even 2D trailers are harder to watch with polarized glasses. I did want to see Knight and D…err… Day and Night in 3D, though.
I did like many parts of Avatar, Alice in Wonderland and How to Train Your Dragon in 3D.