One of this summer’s most highly-anticipated sequels,Incredibles 2, is shaping up for a huge opening weekend when it hits theaters next month. Early box office projections have putIncredibles 2at $140 million for its three-day opening weekend when it hits theaters on June 15, and if it does hit that projection, it will break a box office record, surpassingFinding Dory’s current mark of $135 million as the highest domestic opening weekend for an animated film in box office history.
The early projections fall in line with our own summer box office predictions from a few weeks ago, when we putIncredibles 2at $138.6 million for its opening weekend. It’s too early to tell now how wideIncredibles 2will open at when it arrives in theaters next month, but it will likely have the widest rollout of the rest of the films debuting that weekend, which include Sony’sSuperflyremake, the Warner Bros. comedyTagand Yash Raj’s action SequelTag 3. With this new projection,Incredibles 2should have no trouble taking the top spot in its opening weekend, whether or not it does or doesn’t break the all time animated opening weekend record.
If it doe hit $140 million, it will also almost exactly double the opening weekend of its predecessor, Disney Pixar’sThe Incredibles, which opened to $70.4 million in 2004.The Incrediblesended up earning $261.4 million domestic and $371.5 million international for a worldwide total of $633 million, from a $92 million budget. No budget figures have been released forIncredibles 2quite yet, but with this opening weekend projection coming in at twice as high as the original movie’s opening weekend, this animated sequel could be shaping up for a huge run, especially after the excitement hit when thefirst trailerdebuted.
Incredibles 2also has the advantage of some cushion between some of this summer’s biggest superhero movies, arriving seven weeks afterAvengers: Infinity Warand four weeks ahead ofDeadpool 2, both of which won’t likely be much of a factor at thebox officeby then. WhileSolo: A Star Wars Storyis expected to have a solid opening weekend, likely breakingPirates of the Caribbean: At World’s EndMemorial Day box office record ($139.8 million), that will also have certainly died down considerably by the timeIncredibles 2hits theaters.
The biggest threat toIncredibles 2will likely come a week later, whenJurassic World: Fallen Kingdomhits theaters on June 22. Its predecessorJurassic Worldtook in a then-record $208.8 million when it debuted in June 2015, and even if it doesn’t match or surpass that mark, it will most likely put up a huge debut that will endIncredibles 2’s box office win streak after its first weekend. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news on the box office projections forIncredibles 2, although we’ll have to wait and see if these numbers are adjusted when we get closer to the release.
