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‘Secret Life of Pets 2’ and ‘Dark Phoenix’ Falter at the Box Office

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Though they led ticket sales this weekend, both movies fell short of expectations.
It’s a tale of two sequels in which both underperformed. So maybe it should start like this: It was the most lackluster of times, it was the most lackluster of times.
Universal’s “The Secret Life of Pets 2” and “Dark Phoenix,” an “X-Men” sequel from Fox, led ticket sales at the box office this weekend. But both fell short of expectations.
“The Secret Life of Pets 2” took the No. 1 spot, selling roughly $47.1 million in tickets Friday through Sunday. That was enough to make it the best-attended movie in America this weekend, but it was well under half the roughly $104.4 million that the original “Secret Life of Pets” made domestically during its first weekend in 2016.
The original movie paired a starry ensemble of voice actors (Kevin Hart and Lake Bell among them) with cute animated animals and a serious marketing push. That worked well for Universal and Illumination, the studio also behind the “Despicable Me” series, who turned that combination into a winner at the box office.
While “The Secret Life of Pets 2” wasn’t expected to reach those high figures, it was expected to get closer to the mid-50-million-dollar range.

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