

Memorial Day weekend is coming up, though, so maybe some parents are just waiting until the kids have more time off. 27-29 box office battle could play out: 1. So the fans who saw A Dog's Journey seemed to love it, there just haven't been that many fans heading out to see it yet. As holiday holdovers finally die down and a packed slate of wide releases debut in their place, here’s how the Jan. Janu1:10 PM Sandy Cohen, The Associated Press Entertainment Tweet Share Like. James McAvoy’s bravura turn helped M Night Shyamalan’s film hold the top spot. Leaked video likely to hurt A Dog’s Purpose at box office. Leaked video likely to hurt A Dog’s Purpose at box office. Split still No 1 at US box office as A Dog's Purpose scampers into second. A Dog's Purpose also got an A CinemaScore, with A Dog's Way Home getting an A-. LOS ANGELES Marketers would describe A Dog’s Purpose as a film with four-quadrant appeal. A Dog's Journey got an even higher boost with a whopping 95% RT Audience Score, and an A CinemaScore from polled moviegoers. There are some nice observations as Baily and his various embodiments attempt to package the human experience into a dog’s world view (why is Ethan looking for food in Hannah’s mouth), but it ain’t enough. The fact that the film has worked so well speaks directly to its resonating message. For the most part they are inseparable and share a bond that most dogs can but envy. It opened right in the sweet spot, if not on the higher end of expectations, said Nick Carpou, Universal’s domestic distribution chief. But the same is true for A Dog's Purpose, which got an even lower 34% rating from critics, but a 73% Audience Score from fans. A Dogs Purpose is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed by Lasse Hallstrm and written by W. Universal and Amblin partnered on A Dog’s Purpose. Or maybe fans were just too interested in seeing Avengers: Endgame again, or Detective Pikachu.Ĭritics didn't care much for A Dog's Journey, giving it a 49% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Why not? Possibly because A Dog's Way Home just came out in January and made $42 million at the domestic box office, and $34 million overseas. That was more than double the take for Universal’s controversial family drama A Dog’s Purpose, which launched with a moderate 455,000 in 2,255 domestic sites. After calls for a boycott and allegations of animal abuse following a leaked TMZ video. That film just doesn't seem to be on track for the same box office success as A Dog's Purpose. A Dogs Purpose Sinks Teeth Into 455,000 at Thursday Box Office. Josh Gad returned for the sequel A Dog's Journey, along with Dennis Quaid as Ethan Montgomery.
