#MEMORIA DAY MOVIE#
After Disney failed to make films like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Tomorrowland, and Alice Through the Looking Glass hits over the Memorial Day weekend, Aladdin justified the studio's steadfast hold on releasing a film over the holiday.Īfter 19 years away from the big screen, Indiana Jones returned to movie theaters all over the globe on for Memorial Day weekend. In addition, the worldwide box office was $1 billion, making it the ninth highest-grossing film of 2019 at the domestic box office. The movie opened to $116 million over the Memorial Day weekend easily beating out the other two Memorial Day alternatives, Booksmart and Brightburn.Īladdin went on to bring in $355 million domestically, making it the highest-grossing film to open on Memorial Day weekend not adjusted for inflation. Despite a lot of online criticism of the film's early marketing, audiences still turned out to see Aladdin when it opened in theaters on May 24, 2019. Some have decried them as being derivative of the original animated films, offering nothing new, yet many like Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King were box office sensations grossing over $1 billion. The movie grossed $233 million domestically and $746 million worldwide, and with rave reviews the franchise, if ever so briefly, was fully back.ĭisney's live-action remakes of their classic animated films have yielded mixed reactions from audiences over the years. X-Men: Days of Future Past opened on May 23, 2014, and grossed $110 million over the four-day holiday weekend. With Wolverine, the franchise's most popular hero front in center in two different timelines, the mutants returned to the big screen in a major way. Related: Marvel Movie Weekend: Every Great Superhero Film Released the First Week of May In 2014, 20th Century Fox released X-Men: Days of Future Past, which united the cast of the X-Men trilogy (the first time many of them had been seen in their roles in eight years) with the new cast introduced in X-Men: First Class.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe had exploded onto the scene as well, so while later films like X-Men: First Class and The Wolverine were respectable hits, they were nowhere near the franchise's former glory.
#MEMORIA DAY SERIES#
The X-Men film series helped kick off the superhero boom of the 2000s, but after a string of critical disasters with X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, things had changed. Here are the biggest Memorial Day movies based on opening weekend box office. These movies have some high-profile films they are competing with, because it's just such a profitable weekend.
2022 will see The Bob's Burgers Movie and Top Gun: Maverick both compete for audiences over the four-day holiday, and Disney has already set The Little Mermaid remake for Memorial Day 2023.
Both films did well at the box office over the holiday, an indicator that audiences were wanting to return to the theaters after the pandemic. Memorial Day weekend got its time in the sun again last year, as the summer movie season officially kicked off on Memorial Day with the release of A Quiet Place Part II and Cruella on May 28, 2021. While the summer movie season has become more flexible, extending out even earlier and studios releasing big tent pole films during spring and fall as well, there still remains a special prestige around being a Memorial Day release movie. Star Wars obviously went on to become one of the most successful films of all time, and since then Hollywood has released some of the biggest movies of the summer on Memorial Day weekend. This is commonly associated with the release of Star Wars, which opened in theaters on May 25, 1977, the Wednesday before Memorial Day weekend.
#MEMORIA DAY FREE#
With all that extra free time, Hollywood likes to cash in, with Memorial Day for years correlating to the beginning of the summer movie season. Many schools across the country get out for summer break at that time, and many people have the Memorial holiday off, meaning a four-day weekend for families to spend together. Traditionally in the United States, Memorial Day weekend is used as the indicator for the start of the summer.
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