"Pirates of the Caribbean 5" Opens at #1 during Memorial Day Weekend

[JamesG]

Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Top Memorial Day Weekend Box Office as Baywatch Struggles
by Brad Brevet
May 28, 2017


Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales led the way this Memorial Day weekend while Paramount's Baywatch struggled to match expectations.

Meanwhile, Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues to deliver while the studio's Beauty and the Beast became only the eighth film to cross $500 million domestically.

Overall, the weekend was down 15% compared to Memorial Day weekend last year when both X-Men: Apocalypse and Alice Through the Looking Glass delivered underwhelming openings.







With an estimated $62 million for the three-day and $76.6 million for the four-day weekend, Disney's fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise finished atop the holiday weekend box office.

Additionally, the film brought in an estimated $208.4 million internationally, the 12th largest overseas opening of all-time, as it opened in virtually the entire overseas marketplace.

Also, Dead Men Tell No Tales received an "A-" CinemaScore from opening day audiences and pushed Disney's domestic cume for 2017 over $1 billion on Friday.







You have to go to third to find Paramount's Baywatch, which was topped by Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in its fourth weekend of release. The R-rated comedy starring Dwayne Johnson delivered a meager $18.1 million for the three-day weekend and is expected to finish around $22 million for the four-day holiday weekend.

The film received a "B+" CinemaScore from opening day audiences.







Meanwhile, getting back to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the Marvel sequel delivered an estimated $19.89 million for the three-day and is expected to finish around $24 million for the four-day holiday.

The film's domestic gross now tops $335 million while its international cume climbs over $450 million for a global cume totaling $783.3 million, surpassing the original Guardians of the Galaxy and becoming the fifth highest grossing worldwide release in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.







Fourth place belongs to Alien: Covenant, which dropped a massive 71% in its second weekend, delivering a mere $10.5 million for the three-day.

Rounding out the top five is WB's Everything, Everything, which dropped 47% in its second weekend, bringing in an estimated $6.18 million as its cume now stands at $21.5 million on a $10 million budget.







Elsewhere, Disney's Beauty and the Beast brought in an estimated $1.56 million for the three-day and over $1.98 million for the four-day weekend as its domestic cume now tops $500 million, becoming only the eighth film all-time to reach that milestone.

Another milestone this weekend belongs to Universal's The Fate of the Furious, which became only the sixth film all-time to cross $1 billion at the international box office.







In limited release Abramorama's release of Long Strange Trip - The Untold Story of The Grateful Dead brought in an estimated $34,131 from two locations on the heels of an impressive event showing on Thursday night, which saw the film deliver $261,572 from 50 locations.

Abramorama also released Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan this weekend, which brought in an estimated $21,127 from two theaters.

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May 26-28, 2017 Weekend Studio Estimates:


1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales $62,179,000
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 $19,890,000
3. Baywatch $18,100,000
4. Alien: Covenant $10,525,000 / $57,347,181
5. Everything, Everything $6,185,000 / $21,541,113
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul $4,400,000 / $13,581,961
7. Snatched $3,905,000 / $40,184,625
8. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword $3,215,000 / $33,870,202
9. The Boss Baby $1,700,000 / $168,957,190
10. Beauty and the Beast $1,563,000 / $500,563,435

[ponytail]

I do hope to see POTC soon. I love Johnny and Capt. Jack Sparrow.