User blog:ARTaylor/Big Heroic Debut

Big Hero 6 topped the weekend box office beating fellow debut movie Interstellar. The Walt Disney Animation Studios film opened in 3761 locations to an estimated $56.2 million over the weekend, amounting to an average of $14,943 per theater. Seventy-two percent of the viewers were made up of families. This is up fifteen percent from Disney's previous effort Wreck-It Ralph, which opened around the same time in 2012. Though this is down from Frozen's opening last year. Box Office Mojo predicts that if it continues to compare equally with Wreck-It Ralph it would end up with over $215 million. It's largest competition was Interstellar, which also opened to an estimated $50 million. This would mark the fourth time that two movies opened to over fifty million, each previous time the animated film topped the other.

The film received strong reviews, getting an A from CinemaScore.