Box Office: 'Secret Life of Pets' Heading for $90 Million-Plus Debut
Meanwhile, this weekend’s other new offering, Fox’s raunchy comedy Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, should earn around $6 million Friday (including $1.6 million from Thursday night) for a debut in the $13 million to $15 million range.
The Secret Life of Pets earned a strong $5.3 million in late night shows Thursday for Illumination Entertainment's second best opening behind Minions ($6.24M) and ahead of Despicable Me 2 ($4.7M) and Despicable Me ($590K). Minions opened to $115.7 million last July.
The film will earn enough to unseat the other animated film, holdover Finding Dory, from the No. 1 spot for the weekend. Disney and Pixar's hit has taken in more than $400 million domestically after three weekends in theaters, and is likely to grab another $20 million-plus this weekend.
Secret Life of Pets, which played in select theaters Thursday night before opening everywhere Friday (it will screen in roughly 4,300 theaters), reveals what pets do after their human friends leave the house. The voice cast includes Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart (it's the first time the three have worked on an animated movie), Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Steve Coogan and Albert Brooks. Chris Rinaud (Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2) directed.
The weekend's other new nationwide entry is Fox and Chernin Entertainment's R-rated comedy Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, starring Zac Efron and Adam Devine.
Directed by Jake Szymanski, Mike and Dave follows to debauched brothers who are tasked with finding respectable dates for their sister's wedding. They put an ad on Craigslist, and end up taking two best friends (Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza) who are actually bigger troublemakers than they are.
source: hollywoodreporter
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