User blog:Ceauntay/‘Sonic’ Paces Big With $32M+; ‘Solo’ Hits Asteroid With $28M+; ‘Action Point’ Condemned To $2M+: Post-Memorial Day Blues At The B.O.

3rd update and writethru, Saturday AM: It’s a truly awful post-Memorial Day weekend, and it’s not because we’re following a high volume period. Any major studio could have programmed a truly big event title here and reversed the marketplace’s fortune for the better, witness Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman a year ago which soared to $103.2M opening, became the highest grossing pic of the summer at $412.5M and broke glass ceilings commercially for a live-action movie by a female director.

Warner Bros.' ‘Sonic Boom: The Movie’ will enjoy it's wonderful opening weekend this weekend as it is projecting a solid $32M, which will easily take first place. This will be the ninth time that a Sonic the Hedgehog movies scored the number one spot.

The other wrench slowing business down is Disney’s Solo: A Star Wars Story which really isn’t much of a holdover with an estimated second weekend of $28.2M, down 67% with a running domestic cume of $147.8M. Now, it’s common for a No. 1 Memorial Day opening title to fall in the mid-sixty-percentile range (that’s because the weekend is coming off a big Sunday), but this is the lowest second weekend for a Star Wars movie out of Disney/Lucasfilm’s latest crop and the 20th Century Fox released Episodes I-III (which in all fair comparisons had their second weekends cushioned by the Memorial Day holiday stretch).