![]() It is nothing of the kind, unless “Toy Story” suddenly turns into a bad movie when our backs are turned. ![]() The most amusing sequence (already spoiled in the trailer) shows these and other animals having fun and acting naughty once their owners’ backs are turned, initially suggesting that “The Secret Life of Pets” might turn out to be the “Toy Story” of talking-animal movies. Arriving in the dog days of an unusually mediocre summer for big-studio entertainments, the picture is a glorified hairball pulled together from the strands of better, more appealing movies and then noisily coughed up and disgorged at a multiplex near you. Opening with a Taylor Swift-scored tribute to New York and ending with a traffic-stopping action climax that has the grave misfortune of following “Finding Dory” into theaters, “The Secret Life of Pets” is governed by a spirit not of revelation but of confirmation. No, the questions and possibilities raised by this new feature-length cartoon - antically directed by Chris Renaud and his co-director, Yarrow Cheney - are too deep and perplexing to be discussed in such crass commercial terms.ĭoes the movie perhaps mean to enlighten the stereotypically inclined animal lovers in the audience - to show us that dogs can be more than dumb, slobbering oafs and that not all cats are contemptuous, self-absorbed snobs? That unbeknownst to us, our favorite domestic animals are actually fascinating, fully developed characters in their own right? Now that we’ve observed the secret lives of bees, the American teenager and Walter Mitty, does this latest tell-all actually contain any secrets worth spilling? The Boss, £103,033 from 242 sites.Why does “The Secret Life of Pets” exist? I mean besides the obvious reasons, like the bankability of family-friendly animation, the ticket surcharges for 3-D or the fact that Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment are trying to boost their share of the non-Minion collectible toy market. The Jungle Book, £105,258 from 295 sites. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, £185,584 from 384 sites. Alice Through the Looking Glass, £189,077 from 409 sites. Independence Day: Resurgence, £5,067,855 from 610 sites (new)ģ. The Secret Life of Pets, £9,580,039 from 592 sites (new)Ģ. Now You See Me 2 follows on 4 July, and The Legend of Tarzan on 6 July. Also in the mix: Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart in Central Intelligence, and Emma Watson and Daniel Brühl in The Colony. Female friendship groups are the primary audience, but the early exit of England from Euro 2016 may embolden distributor Fox to position more aggressively for couples. This film needed to be in indie cinemas to connect with its likeliest audience, but those venues had other choices, and Sony instead released it overwhelmingly in multiplexes, grossing £19,300 from 103 venues.Ībsolutely Fabulous: the Movie: Edina and Patsy in big screen debut Guardianīookers are hoping that Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie will deliver a boost. But that result is positively joyful when compared with The Meddler, starring Susan Sarandon and Rose Byrne. It begins with £57,000 from 107 cinemas, yielding a weak £531 average. Elvis & Nixon starring Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey recounts an intriguing celebrity meeting, but it was always hard to imagine audiences flocking, especially outside the US. Several new releases offered alternatives to the big two blockbusters, and all under performed to varying degrees. ![]() If previews are included, that’s the ninth biggest debut of the year so far, behind Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (£14.62m), Captain America: Civil War (£14.47m), Deadpool (£13.73m), The Jungle Book (£9.90m), The Secret Life of Pets (£9.58m), X-Men: Apocalypse (£7.35m), Zootropolis (£5.31m) and The Revenant (£5.24m). Its UK opening of £5.07m included previews of £944,000. ![]() Belated sequel Independence Day: Resurgence arrives in a different landscape in which there has been no shortage of action blockbusters propelled by high concepts and spectacular visual effects. ![]()
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