Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to fly high in its third weekend at the box office as it fends off newcomers The End of Oak Street and PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie.
Sony Pictures‘ Brand New Day pulled in $19 million on Friday as it heads to $67 million, which will top the domestic box office for its third consecutive frame. Tom Holland and Zendaya lead the feature that is set to hit a North American total of $782.8 million for its first 17 days to stand at No. 5 on the all-time domestic chart, just behind Avatar at $785.2 million and topping the No. 6 total of $718 million for Top Gun: Maverick.
Warner Bros.’ dinosaur-centric sci-fi survival feature The End of Oak Street grossed $8.1 million on Friday, including Thursday previews, as it eyes an opening weekend around $20 million. Earning a B CinemaScore from audiences, David Robert Mitchell‘sfilm launched in 3,400 North American theaters and carries an $80 million production budget.
Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star in the movie about a family in the early 1980s whose suburban neighborhood has landed in a place teeming with prehistoric predators. It holds an 85 percent Rotten Tomatoes approval rating from critics, while its audience score stands at 77. In hisreview of The End of Oak Street for The Hollywood Reporter, chief film critic David Rooney called the movie “mindlessly entertaining in a big-dumb-fun kind of way.”
Ewan McGregor (left) and Anne Hathaway in The End of Oak Street.
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PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie chased down $7.3 million on Friday, including previews on Thursday and last Saturday, as Paramount Pictures now expects it to also land in the vicinity of $20 million domestically for its opening weekend. Earning an A CinemaScore from audiences to match what the previous sequel PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie received, Dino Movie opened in more than 3,500 locations in North America and has added $38.3 million from 52 overseas markets. It has a $39.5 million production budget.
Carter Young,Mckenna Grace, Terry Crews, Jennifer Hudson and Snoop Dogg are among the voice stars for director Cal Brunker’s film that brings the Paw Patrol canine heroes to a world containing dinosaurs. The previous sequel, 2023’sThe Mighty Movie, opened to $22.7 million domestically in late September. That project’s $205 million global run improved upon the $144 million worldwide total for 2021’s originalPAW Patrol: The Movie, which adapted the series that first launched on Nick Jr. in 2013.
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movieholds an 84 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes.THRcritic Frank Scheck wrotethat, “while the material is thoroughly juvenile, the films impart valuable messages to their impressionable viewers.”
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie
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With Oak Street and Dino Movie battling it out for third place, Universal’s The Odyssey will remain at No. 2 in its fifth weekend. It looks to collect $23 million to bring its domestic cume to $504.4 million.
Rounding out the top five is music documentary Katseye: Wild Hearts. Director Nadia Hallgren’s feature about the girl group opens to around $3.8 million for the weekend from 724 North American screens.
During the week, Spider-Man: Brand New Dayadded toits array of recordsas director Destin Daniel Cretton‘s movie became the fastest title to swingpast the $700 million markat the domestic box office. The film also stars Sadie Sink, who attended Disney’s D23 fan celebration Friday as the studio teased its X-Men plans.
Also opening theatrically this weekend are thrillerThe Rivals of Amziah King, starringMatthew McConaughey; theKristen Stewart-led stoner comedyThe Wrong Girls; and the Green Day-inspired comedy Nimrods, with Mason Thames and Mckenna Grace.