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An animated Dracula and crew got the last laugh at the weekend box office, trumping Dwayne Johnson’s action pic Skyscraper in a major upset. Sony’s Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation easily placed No. 1 in North America with $44.1 million from 4,267 theaters, compared to a wincing $25.5 million from 3,782 theaters for Skyscraper.
Hotel Transylvania 3 — proving the power of family fare amid a sea of male-dominated pics — opened behind the $48 million domestic launch of the last film in the profitable, second-tier animated franchise. Notably, it’s the first time the series has braved the competitive summer corridor; the first two films opened in September.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, July 15, are as follows:
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| Title | Distributor Name | Weekend Total | # of Locs | Loc Avg | Cume Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation | Sony | $44,100,000 | 4,267 | $10,335 | $45,376,000 |
| 2 | Ant-Man And The Wasp | Disney | $28,840,000 | 4,206 | $6,857 | $132,825,225 |
| 3 | Skyscraper | Universal | $25,485,000 | 3,782 | $6,738 | $25,485,000 |
| 4 | Incredibles 2 | Disney | $16,220,000 | 3,705 | $4,378 | $535,818,492 |
| 5 | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Universal | $15,515,000 | 3,695 | $4,199 | $363,297,215 |
| 6 | First Purge, The | Universal | $9,130,000 | 3,038 | $3,005 | $49,507,970 |
| 7 | Sorry To Bother You | Annapurna Pictures | $4,258,000 | 805 | $5,289 | $5,322,952 |
| 8 | Sicario: Day Of The Soldado | Sony | $3,850,000 | 2,006 | $1,919 | $43,200,345 |
| 9 | Uncle Drew | Lionsgate | $3,225,000 | 1,702 | $1,895 | $36,692,040 |
| 10 | Ocean’s 8 | Warner Bros. | $2,910,000 | 1,618 | $1,799 | $132,255,936 |
| 11 | Won’t You Be My Neighbor? | Focus Features | $1,885,000 | 868 | $2,172 | $15,823,287 |
| 12 | Tag | Warner Bros. | $1,305,000 | 982 | $1,329 | $51,346,957 |
