Disney has hit upon an ingenious
approach by having its studios – both its own and subsidiaries like Marvel and
Lucasfilm – spacing their film releases to roughly one per month this
2019. This means moviegoers will not be
going more than 30 days or so without a new Disney live-action movie, or
animation, or Marvel Cinematic Universe installment, or “Star Wars” film. While
there are chances of overlapping runs possibly splitting earnings, at some
points a Disney or affiliated release has little to no real competition upon
premiere. This has been the case for Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story 4,” now past its
first week and second weekend.
Entertainment Weekly has it that “Toy Story 4” is again the king of
the box office, with earnings upward of $57.9 million across 4,575 theaters in
the US. Interestingly, going into its second weekend Disney-Pixar’s latest
installment of an animated franchise, involving toys coming to life when their
owners are not around, finds itself competing against two other films involving
living toys, both of which have negative and scary connotations to the concept.
These are the remake of the 1988 horror classic “Child’s Play” and the latest
chapter of the “Conjuring” franchise, “Annabelle Comes Home.”
By this point the “Child’s Play”
remake, which stars the voice of Mark Hamill as the murderous doll Chucky, is
well down on the top box office earners list. Now coming up behind “Toy Story 4”
is “Annabelle Comes Home” from Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema, in second
place this past weekend with ticket sales worth $20.4 million. Although “Toy
Story 4” has dropped over 50 percent from its opening weekend gross, the
figures are still pretty strong compared to most other films. It is helped by
the overseas take of $236.9 million, for a $496.5 million global total.
“Toy Story 4” picks up from what
had originally been a great storyline conclusion in “Toy Story 3” back in 2010.
Here the hand-me-down toys of Andy Davis, led by Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz (Tim
Allen) are enjoying the ownership of their newest kid Bonnie. When Bonnie
creates a toy doll from a spork named Forky (Tony Hale), he comes to life and
must be taught by Woody of the joys of being a kid’s toy. When Woody and Forky
get lost in another during a road trip, Woody is reunited with his love
interest Bo (Annie Potts) and must decide if returning to a child’s ownership
or becoming a free toy is better for him at his age.
The film is still showing in
theaters, just ahead of the July 2 release of the MCU film “Spider-Man: Far
from Home” and the July 19 premiere of the remake of 1994’s “The Lion King.”
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