I’m going to start off this edition of Box Office Buzz with Up‘s latest huge accomplishment.
The movie about and old man who pursued his final dream has now become the second highest grossing Pixar movie surpassing The Incredibles! Those who may not know much about Pixar’s box office history might be thinking: so what if it’s second, why not first? Well, Pixar’s top grosser is Finding Nemo (2003) with $339 million, that would be the fifteenth highest grossing movie ever and the second highest grossing animated movie ever. Otherwise known as a near impossible goal to reach.
So maybe Up is just second, but with over $264 million dollars (Pixar’s 10th blockbuster in a row) one could say that’s more than enough! That’s not to say I want Pixar’s 10th film to stall, the studio’s movies are known for having "legs" and long ones too. After passing The Incredibles and becoming the #6 animated movie/#5 CGI movie Up still has one more feasible goal to reach, beating Shrek’s $267 million at the U.S. box office. That would make Up the second highest grossing non-sequel animated movie ever!
Anyways, this is how the Independence Day Weekend played out. Friday raked in $2.7 million, the Fourth of July brought in $1.8 million and finally on Sunday $2.0 million was earned. That gets Up’s estimated domestic gross up to $264,873,000! Considering Ice Age 3 and Transformers 2 (both with huge potential to break into Up’s market) are present and strong this weekend, it’s impressive how well Pete Docter’s second film is holding on.
Speaking of big summer films, Transformers has taken over the ranks of #1 film of the year leaving Up at #2. But I think Pixar would rather have a $264 million film with the best reviews of the year than a confusing explosion of a movie… I wonder what those analysts think about that? Sorry, I had to.
Update: Actuals are in! Up totalled in at $264,816,694 for the Fourth of July weekend. See a breakdown of the days here.
(via Box Office Mojo)
Last modified: July 5, 2009
i would have ever guessed that Up would have come this far..
Sorry to throw cold water on the fire but, Hasn’t movie tickets slowly gone up in price? On the good side though it’s hasn’t been distributed across the world at the same time (over here in England is going o be a long wait for 16th Oct, WHY IS THAT!!?
) so yeah, in every cloud there is a sliver lining *sorry to the obvious pun :S
Yeah, movie prices have gone up, but in these kind of rankings people rarely count inflation. You can find ranking with inflation added online too.