According to box office site boxofficemojo.com, ‘Finding Dory’ has swum ahead of its cinematic competition for its second week with a predicted $73.2 million in ticket sales.
The sequel to the hit Pixar animation ‘Finding Nemo’ has now grossed around $400 million globally.
Coming in behind Dory was ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’, the sequel to the 1996 Will Smith hit. That was expected to take $41.6 million at the box office.
Third is the Warner Bros buddy comedy ‘Central Intelligence’ which is estimated to take $18.3 million – around half its first weekend takings.
‘The Shallows’, about a surfer (Blake Lively) who finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark, nearly made back its $17 million dollar budget with an estimated $16.7 million at the US box office.
STX Entertainment’s ‘Free State of Jones’ rounds out the top five, with an estimated box office take of $7.77 million, narrowly ahead of ‘The Conjuring 2’, which summoned an estimated $7.70 million.
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