No matter how well it does, its place as the biggest “opened against a Star Wars” movie will likely be supplanted in three years when Aquaman 2 opens against Disney’s next Star Wars movie in December of 2022.Experts have been analyzing and predicting the box office performance of Star Wars: The Force Awakens for months, but now we have hard numbers that give the sci-fi sequel the biggest domestic box office opening of all time.
If Cats delivers a live-action variation of the stage show, complete with an all-star cast and kid-friendly thrills, I imagine it will do quite alright. The $144 million domestic cume looks a lot easier than the $609 million global total for this milestone, but (again) much will depend how folks outside of North America care about the end of the Skywalker/Solo Star Wars saga.Įven with the Internet having a grand old time with the Cats marketing, the blow-out success of Aladdin (on digital HD today after earning $354 million domestic and $1.046 billion worldwide) again shows that online mockery and/or Film Twitter conjecture doesn’t do a damn thing as long as general audiences want to see a movie and that said movie delivers on its promises. The latter earned $534 million/$1.004 billion in July of 2008. As you probably recall, it opened on the same day in July of 2018 as both Space Chimps and Chris Nolan ’s The Dark Knight. Speaking of Universal’s Mamma Mia!, with $144 million domestic and $609 million worldwide, the Meryl Streep/Pierce Brosnan/Amanda Seyfried adaptation of the ABBA musical smash holds the record for the biggest grosser here and abroad for any film that opened alongside another $500 million-plus domestic or $1 billion-plus worldwide grosser. So, yeah, that seems more-than-plausible as well considering how well Les Misérables and Mamma Mia! performed overseas. The biggest global grosser for an “opened alongside Star Wars” release is, believe it or not, the $234 million cume of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip. While I don’t expect Cats to match that film’s $512 million adjusted-for-inflation domestic totals, a raw domestic cume above the Burt Reynolds smash seems more-than-plausible even amid a crowded family marketplace ( Star Wars, Little Women, Spies in Disguise, Jumanji: The Next Level, etc.). The biggest domestic gross for an “opened against a Star Wars” movie is the $127 million gross way back in 1977 of Smokey and the Bandit. It earned $41 million ($117 million adjusted for inflation) over its Wed-Mon launch.Ĭats will open Decemalongside Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Return of the Jedi opened unopposed in 1,000 theaters over Memorial Day weekend in 1983. And The Empire Strikes Back opened in just 126 theaters over Memorial Day weekend 1980 (for a $4.91 million opening weekend), Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining was opening in ten theaters for a $622,337 opening weekend. While Star Wars was opening to literal blockbuster crowds in 32 theaters over Memorial Day weekend in 1977, Burt Reynolds’ Smokey and the Bandit opened that same Friday for an eventual $127 million domestic gross ($512 million adjusted for inflation) which would spawn a franchise for Universal concurrently with Fox’s game-changing sci-fi adventure. The comparisons for the original trilogy are slightly complicated. Daddy’s Home ($245 million in 2015), the Sing ($634 million in 2016) and both Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle ($962 million) and The Greatest Showman ($434 million) thrived via Christmas weekend openings just after Force Awakens, Rogue One and The Last Jedi. The likes of Notting Hill ($363 million on a $42 million budget) in 1999, Chris Nolan’s remake of Insomnia ($113 million on a $42 million budget) in 2002 and both Madagascar ($532 million on a $78 million) and the Adam Sandler/Chris Rock The Longest Yard remake ($190 million on an $82 million budget) in 2005 all succeeded after their solid Memorial Day weekend launches as the Star Wars prequels continued to play to packed auditoriums. The Star Wars prequels opened just before Memorial Day weekend.
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