Venom: The Last Dance topped the North American box office for the second straight week, delivering an estimated $26.1 million and bringing its two-week total to $90 million.
The third and final film in the Venom franchise added an estimated $68.4 million overseas, for a global tally of $317 million.
Second place went to The Wild Robot, earning an estimated $7.6 million. Its six-week domestic tally now stands at $121.5 million and $269.1 million globally in its sixth week of release.
Smile 2 took third place, collecting an estimated $6.8 million in its third week of release. The animated sequel’s domestic haul currently stands at $52.7 million and $109.8 million globally.
Conclave came in fourth with an estimated $5.3 million, bringing its North American gross to $15.2 million.
Rounding out the top five was Here, which marked the reunion of Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and director Robert Zemeckis, the team behind the 1994 box office smash Forrest Gump. However, the results were disappointing this time out. The drama only managed to deliver an estimated $5 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend.
We’ve already reported that Francis Ford Coppola gave his own film Megalopolis five stars on the cineaste site Letterbxd, but in a new chat with Deadline alongside his star Adam Driver, the Oscar-winning filmmaker explains what he thinks of the mixed reaction to the decades-in-development project.
Coppola insisted his director friends are “very frank about” saying if they didn’t like a film — and apparently they haven’t said that to him. “I’ve been getting what I wanted to get from my colleagues” was how he put it.
He later allowed of the public reaction to it, “No one says it’s boring.” He insisted “a lot of people will say, ‘Wow, I want to see it again,’ and the more they see it, the more they’ll get out of it,” relating it to the reaction to his Apocalypse Now.
For the record, Apocalypse was an award-winning film out of the gate — something that people incidentally pointed out after Megalopolis‘ “fake critic” controversy.
“There are people who love the film. There are people who say, ‘I don’t know what I think,’ but they’ll see it again, and they’ll find something else in it — because there’s a lot in it.”
Coppola seems to have also fielded a question about reports his Megalopolis set was disorganized — or possibly headlines of his alleged inappropriate behavior on set. It’s unclear because the trade’s questions were not recorded.
Nevertheless, Coppola said, “We’re witnessing the death of journalism and the death of the studio system. … For journalism to retreat behind unknown sources and … trying to get clicks, and saying something bad because you know that something bad will always get clicks, it’s sad.”
Driver called the production among his all-time favorite experiences as an actor.
Disney announced Monday that its smash sequel Inside Out 2 attracted 30.5 million views globally in its first five days on Disney+.
That makes the Disney/Pixar movie, which has become the highest-grossing animated film of all time, the biggest premiere on Disney+ since 2021’s Encanto debuted on the platform.
With streaming audiences in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Inside Out 2 had Disney+’s biggest debut ever.
Released in theaters June 14, Inside Out 2 is also the highest-grossing movie of the year.
