‘Jurassic World 3’ Stays No. 1 As ‘Lightyear’ Fails to Launch With $51 Million Opening

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“Dominion” became the eighth Hollywood film of the COVID era to pass $500 million worldwide on Friday and is well on pace alongside Paramount/Skydance’s “Top Gun: Maverick” to reach the $1 billion mark.

The $58 million second weekend domestic total is a touch below the $60 million earned by “Jurassic World; Fallen Kingdom” in 2018, but with Monday being a federal holiday in observance of Juneteenth, Universal is estimating a $9.4 million Monday total to give the film a $68 million 4-day weekend. “Lightyear,” meanwhile, is opening well short of box office projections, which had pegged the film to top the $72 million opening of “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” to score the best family film opening of the year.

Instead, the film is opening below “Dominion” with just $51 million domestic and $85.6 milliion worldwide.While that is enough to put “Lightyear” above “The Bad Guys” and “The Bob’s Burgers Movie” and give it the highest animated opening of 2022, the “Toy Story” spinoff is failing to top even the $53 million opening of “Cars 3” in 2017.

To find a lower opening for a summer Pixar release, one must go all the way back to June 2007 with the $47 million launch of “Ratatouille.” This sluggish start comes in spite of the fact that “Lightyear” has earned slightly stronger reception than “Jurassic World: Dominion,” with an A- on CinemaScore and Rotten Tomatoes scores of 77% critics and 86% audience.