‘Finding Dory’ Breaks Box Office Records in Opening Weekend

With help from Nemo and Marlin, Dory the forgetful fish embarks on a quest to reunite with her mother and father.

The Short Term Memory Loss Dory smashed U.S. box office records and reached to $136,183,170 (USA) on 17 June 2016.

Finding Dory injects some energy into a domestic box office that had been sluggish in recent weeks, as several high-profile films such as Alice Through the Looking Glass and Warcraft collapsed and sequels like X-Men: Apocalypse failed to match their predecessors’ receptions. Dory claimed the record for all-time biggest domestic opening weekend for an animated film.

Entertainment Weekly reports the Pixar film, the sequel to 2003’s “Finding Nemo”, also became the second-largest June opening of all time right behind “Jurassic World”.

During the adventure to find Dory’s (Ellen Degeneres) parents, Nemo (Hayden Rolence), Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Dory bump into a host of characters, nearly all of whom have some sort of disability. “So each and every “Dory” Blue Tang Fish that is adopted will have been plucked from its home in the ocean. That set the stage for this spectacular debut, bigger than anyone expected”.

According to ComScore, women made up 62% of the movie’s audience. “It was girl power all the way with this terrific female character. The female audience powered this opening weekend”.

Disney today announced that the Finding Dory Play Set and Nemo figure, the final releases for Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition, are available now in retail stores nationwide.

“Central Intelligence”, starring Kevin Hart and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson”, pulled into second place with a weekend gross of $34.5 million. “That’s still a really good result”, said Mr Dergarabedian.

Finding Dory’s strong performance is attributed to positive reviews from critics and the affection of moviegoers to the first film, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Film in 2004. Before Finding Dory, The Conjuring 2 was one of the very few 2016 sequels to open on par with its original movie, yet last week’s No. 1 movie fell by 61.5 percent to a $15.5 million third place finish.