With Friday estimates in, it's no question Finding Dory will soon hold the animated opening weekend record, it will only be a question of By how much?. With an estimated
$54.9 million on Friday the film has already claimed the largest single day for an animated feature, topping the previous record of $47 million set by current animated opening record holder Shrek the Third.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4197&p=.htm
UPDATE: Saturday 11:55PM: Finding Dory made
$44M on Saturday, -20% from its $55M Friday, which was a single day record for any animated film. Even though Saturday is a bit steeper than the industry expected (-15%), we have to recognize the fact that Dory is coming off of a frontloaded Friday, that is further propped by a record $9.2M Thursday night (for an animated movie).
Saturday’s dip isn’t going to shake Dory from her record animated pic opening, which is now estimated at $134.9M. Like superhero movies, most Pixar titles have a fandom trajectory at the box office where a portion show up on Thursday night, the greatest bulk on Friday, and then Saturday and Sunday ease thereafter.
Dory will end the weekend as the highest grossing PLF and XD opening weekend of all time for an animated film with an estimated $10.4M in private label PLF screens and $2.6M in Cinemark XD hubs.
Relish Mix reported today that #FindingDory momentum spiked sharply, up six-times from Wednesday, topping out on Friday with 42K hashtags on Twitter and Instagram combined. All of this was triggered by a post from Justin Bieber (83M followers).
http://deadline.com/2016/06/finding-...ls-1201774498/
