Pixar’s latest movie, The Good Dinosaur, has scored the studio’s lowest opening weekend since its debut movie Toy Story.
Opening second behind The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 in its second week of release, The Good Dinosaur brought home $39.1 million on its opening weekend, which puts it just ahead of Toy Story, which opened to $29.4 million in 1995. It falls short of Ratatouille ($47 million) and Cars ($60.1 million), and way outside of Inside Out‘s $90 million opening weekend. Technically the film also opened ahead of A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2, but those were only initially opened in a 1-theatre limited release.
The movie got an bump from the early Wednesday release, which brings its domestic total to $55 million. This puts it ahead of Ratatouille but still behind Cars, neither of which had the 5-day opening. The film also brought home an extra $28.7 million from its overseas showings, which included the UK.
The Good Dinosaur will face competition from Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip when it opens later on December 18th, but by that point we’ll all be talking about Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ box office takings.
SEE ALSO: Read our reviews of The Good Dinosaur here and here
Meg LeFauve (Inside Out) has penned the script for this Peter Sohn-directed film, which features a cast that includes Raymond Ochoa (Mr. Peabody & Sherman), Jeffrey Wright (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2), Sam Elliot (Up in the Air), Anna Paquin (True Blood), A.J. Buckley (Justified), Steve Zahn (Dallas Buyers Club), Jack Bright (Monsters University) and Frances McDormand (Moonrise Kingdom).
