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Box Office: ‘Lightyear’ Opening Weekend Struggling to Outpace ‘Jurassic World Dominion’

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J. Kim Murphy Infinity isn’t a practical milestone at the box office, so Disney’s “Lightyear” will have to settle for a $20.7 million opening day and beyond.Pixar’s spinoff of its “Toy Story” franchise blasted off on Thursday night with a respectable $5.2 million from preview screenings.

However, the film is now tracking to come in below initial expectations, which initially pegged the film for a debut between $70 million and $80 million from 4,255 theaters in North America.

What’s more, “Lightyear” is struggling to unseat Universal’s “Jurassic World Dominion” from the top slot on domestic charts during the dino-sequel’s sophomore weekend.There’s certainly winning ways to look at the “Lightyear” opening, as its projected $52 million opening would quite easily mark the highest debut for an animated movie since the onset of the pandemic in North America.

Family audiences have been somewhat skittish to return to the big screen as multiplexes have reopened, which had led Disney to rethink its release strategy, opting out of theatrical runs for Pixar’s subsequent three animated features — “Soul,” “Luca” and “Turning Red” — and instead debuting them directly on the company’s streamer Disney+ to bolster subscriptions.

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