This summer is treating movie fans to plenty of high-budget offerings at the theater, which has made it pretty interesting to watch who’s winning the box office battle. This week featured a quartet of new releases — particularly DC’s The Flash and Pixar’s Elemental — and while those two films did unseat the previous week’s top two, both earned far less than their studios were hoping for. The former's first three days in theaters were anything but speedy, as it earned just $55.1 million. Meanwhile, the animated tale of fire and water followed with $29.5 million.
If you think that sounds low for a Pixar premiere, you are spot-on, and we’ll get into some comparisons down below. The Juneteenth and Father’s Day weekend wasn’t a complete bust, however, as Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City got off to a record-breaking start with its release in just six theaters. Check out the full Top 10 chart below, then we’ll break it all down.
