Finding Dory Projected To Have Second Best Opening Weekend Box Office This Year So Far

Pixar and Disney’s Finding Nemo, was released in 2003 with an great white shark size opening weekend of 70 million dollars. By the end of the year it would make a whale of a box office with 339 million bucks… it’s lifetime box office is up to 380 million.

So with the upcoming release of Finding Dory projections are titanic. According to Deadline.com‘s estimates, Disney will have the top two box office opening films of the year. Marvel/Disney’s Captain America: Civil War opened with $179 million as the biggest opening of the year – only Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice came close, with $166 million. The year so far though has Fox’s Deadpool holding the number two slot in total box office and Disney’s Jungle Book though very well might overtake it by years end as it has $353 million and is still in theaters.

Deadline reports that Finding Dory is opening at a whopping “4,305 theaters. 3,200 of those venues will be in 3D, along with 425 premium large format locales.” That makes for a lot of high priced tickets as well. Finding Dory opens in theaters June 16th. The number two slot for the June 16th weekend will likely be the Kevin Hart/Dwayne Johnson vehicle Central Intelligence.

Currently Finding Nemo has a 95% fresh score at Rotten Tomatoes the first film Finding Dory has a 99%. Disney’s “Finding Dory” site describes the film this way. Finding Dory reunites the friendly-but-forgetful blue tang fish with her loved ones, and everyone learns a few things about the true meaning of family along the way. The all-new big-screen adventure dives into theaters in 2016, taking moviegoers back to the extraordinary underwater world from the original film.