‘The Secret Life Of Pets 2’ Set To Soar Past ‘Dark Phoenix’ With $65 Million Opening
By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 17, 2019 4:30 pm EST
Variety reports that The Secret Life of Pets 2 is set to net as much as $65 million domestic box office on its opening weekend, likely beating out Dark Phoenix, the latest (and almost certainly last) X-Men movie from 20th Century Fox.
Though The Secret Life of Pets 2 will likely outrun all of its competitors on opening weekend, its projected box office numbers are still significantly lower than those of the original The Secret Life of Pets, which opened in 2016 with $104.3 million domestically and wound up with $368.3 million in North America and $875 million worldwide. With John Wick: Chapter 3 gaining so much steam this weekend, I wonder if The Secret Life of Pets 2 had kept Lynch’s scrapped “dog party” scene in their film, they’d get an even bigger opening weekend.
However, it’s still not a bad opening range: if it makes the expected amount, The Secret Life of Pets 2 would be one of the highest-grossing animated openings since Illumination’s Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch last year, which opened to $67.6 million.
The Secret Life of Pets 2 and Dark Phoenix both open on June 7, 2019.
