Weekend Box Office Report: Hobbs & Shaw hold on to #1!

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Fast & Furious & first (again)!

The friction between big burly bald badasses was still the main attraction this weekend as FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW stayed at the top of the box office with an estimated $25.4 million!

The FAST & FURIOUS spinoff with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Jason Statham slowed by 58% from its opening last weekend, but still had the best second-week hold in the series since the original THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS back in 2001.

The $200 million physics-defying bro-down has pummeled its way to a ten-day domestic total of $108.5 million, zooming past the $62.5 million domestic finish of FAST & FURIOUS franchise underdog TOKYO DRIFT in 2006.

Director David Leitch's PG-13 action extravaganza, with the beefy reluctant colleagues and Vanessa Kirby duking it out with an enhanced Idris Elba, also now has a worldwide total of $332.6 million (ahead of its China premiere in a couple of weeks).

Opening in second place was the new horror movie SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK with $20.8 million.

Produced and co-written by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Andre Ovredal (TROLLHUNTER, THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE), the PG-13 adaptation of Alvin Schwartz's folklore fright books cost a reported $28 million.

Critics derived some enjoyable terror from the likes of the Jangly Man and the Pale Lady, giving the movie an 80% average on Rotten Tomatoes. Creep on over to the JoBlo review HERE.

Disney's realistically animated update of THE LION KING prowled in third place with $20 million, reaching a regal domestic total of $473.1 million on its fourth weekend in theaters.

With a worldwide total of $1.33 billion, the PG-rated remake from director Jon Favreau has surpassed the $1.26 billion finish of the live-action BEAUTY AND THE BEAST to become Disney's biggest "re-imagining" of a classic catalog title (it has long since conquered the $422 million domestic and $968 million global totals of the original 1994 THE LION KING).

In fourth place was the new family movie DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD with an opening of $17 million.

Directed by James Bobin (THE MUPPETS, ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS), the live-action adaptation of the Nickelodeon cartoon favorite "Dora the Explorer" cost a reported $49 million.

The PG-rated action-adventure, with Isabela Moner as the titular torch-bearing heroine, also discovered $2.5 million worth of treasure from international audiences for a $19.5 million worldwide total.

Critics had a pretty good time on their expedition through the jungle with Dora, giving the movie an 81% average on Rotten Tomatoes. You can excavate the JoBlo review HERE.

Quentin Tarantino's ninth film ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD was in fifth place with $11.6 million. The R-rated Tinseltown comedy-drama swaggered past $100 million domestic and collected an extra $7.7 million as it started rolling out overseas, giving it a worldwide total of $108 million on a reported $90 million cost.

Opening in sixth place was the dog tale THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN with $8.1 million for the weekend.

Based on Garth Stein's novel, the PG-rated philosophical comedy-drama with Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried, and Kevin Costner voicing the canine companion cost a reported $20 million.

The Disney-released movie (picked up as part of their acquisition of Fox), also fetched $1.1 million from international dog-lovers for a $9.2 million worldwide weekend.

Critics weren't feeling their heartstrings tugged by the hound-motivated melodrama, giving the movie an average of 46% on Rotten Tomatoes. Give the JoBlo review a pat on the head right HERE.

In seventh place was the new crime-drama THE KITCHEN with an opening of $5.5 million.

The R-rated period thriller, with Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss taking over gangster duties for their incarcerated husbands, cost a reported $37 million.

The adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic miniseries marks McCarthy's lowest debut for a wide release, behind the $9.5 million start of last summer's THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS.

Critics didn't care to spend time in the kitchen with the trio of leading ladies, giving the movie a 20% average on Rotten Tomatoes. Sharpen your knives with the JoBlo review HERE.

Marvel's wall-crawling superhero SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME was in eighth place with $5.3 million. After six weekends, director Jon Watts' PG-13 solo sequel has a has a domestic total of $370.9 million and $1.09 billion worldwide, on a reported $160 million cost.

Buzz and Woody were in ninth place as Pixar's TOY STORY 4 collected $4.4 million for the weekend to hit $419.5 million domestic, overtaking the $410 million final total for TOY STORY 3 in 2010 (the latest sequel's $989 million global total still remains short of the third movie's $1.06 billion worldwide).

Closing out the list was the the PG-rated comedy-drama THE FAREWELL with $2.2 million as it continues adding screens, now up to 700 locations and a domestic total of $10.3 million (on a $3 million reported cost).

Outside the chart, we waved goodbye to Danny Boyle's musical fantasy YESTERDAY, along with R-rated aligator thriller CRAWL, THE CONJURING spinoff sequel ANNABELLE COMES HOME, and Disney's lucrative live-action remake of ALADDIN.

Next weekend has more late-summer offerings that include animated sequel THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2 (on Tuesday), the shark thriller 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED, the Cate Blanchett drama WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, R-rated comedy GOOD BOYS, and comedy-drama BLINDED BY THE LIGHT.

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