Box Office: Disney’s ‘Finding Dory’ Ends Massive First Week With $213 Million

Finding Dory earned another whopping $17.4 million on its seventh day of release, crossing the $200m mark and ending its first week of release with $213.317m. That’s a drop of just 3.7% from yesterday. Among all non-opening (or day two or day three) Thursdays, that’s the 4th biggest such gross ever, behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($27m on day 7 and $22m on day 14) and Jurassic World ($17.8m on day 7).

Comparatively, Jurassic World and The Dark Knight dropped 10% from their first Wednesdays while (random examples of big openers) Toy Story 3 dropped 3%, Inside Out rose 1%, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest dropped 12% andMinions dropped 17%. Among all seven-day totals, Finding Dory ranks 11th between The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Iron Man 3. The film made an insane $78.257m in its first four weekdays.

Now the only question is how big it goes on its second weekend. Conventional wisdom suggests a $60-$70 million frame, but that would actually be a bit low strictly in terms of comparative patterns. Jurassic World made 5.9x its Thursday number over its second weekend, Inside Out made 5.5x its Thursday figure while Toy Story 3 made “just” 4.5x its Thursday gross over its second Fri-Sun frame. Heck, even Minions made 5.3x its Thursday number while Monsters University earned 4.8x.

So yeah, a performance like Toy Story 3 gets the film a $79 million second weekend which would be the fourth biggest ever. A 5x figure gets it to $87m and past the $300m mark on Sunday. If it plays like Jurassic World, however unlikely, it snags a $102m second weekend and ends its tenth day with $313m (about on par with The Dark Knight). It’s not fair because of the whole “school days” thing, but The Jungle Book made $5.5m on Thursday before a $61m second weekend.

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