F1 has inspired audiences around the globe with its underdog story and perfect blend of high-octane racing and human-centered storytelling. The film’s outstanding debut reflects both the excitement of Formula 1 and the deeply emotional and entertaining story crafted by the entire cast and creative team.

Kudos for Sony in their support and passion to re-energize a dormant cult British zombie franchise in Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later and Disney/Pixar in their relentless attempts to try and breakthrough with expensive original fare, that being the $150M Elio.

How to Train Your Dragon is now looking at $83.7M after a $26.5M Saturday, -26% from Previews/Friday of $35.6M. That’s higher than where tracking was seeing it ($65M-$75M). Know that only big exhibition (who are never good at forecasting despite having access to advance ticket sales) was gunning for a $100M opening.

While that grade for the Len Wiseman-directed movie is under the franchise’s best in show, John Wick: Chapter 4‘s A, it’s well above the original John Wick‘s B, and in the same great company as John Wick 2 & 3 which also nabbed A-s. Friday for the Ana de Armas movie was $10.65M including previews with Saturday down 8.2% to $8.2M, and Sunday forecasted at $6.1M.

“Playing Dress Up,” created by longtime collaborators Ben Redding and Lucy Werner, is a one-night-only immersive performance, at the Bo Bartlett Center. Special help from the Bartlett Center’s Julie Umberger and Micheal McFalls at CSU, means this isn’t your average gallery event.

G is for Gymnasts is a sight-word book, meaning it contains words you can recognize without sounding them out. The book aims to help kids recognize common words beginning with the letter G. They started with G as an ode to their love of gymnastics.

Disney executives are skipping around the Burbank lot as Lilo & Stitch is catapulting the studio past the $1 billion mark at the domestic box office with a 30% market share. Disney is the first studio to pass that milestone YTD. Excluding 2020, Disney has grossed $1B+ domestically for 20 consecutive years since 2005, the only studio to accomplish this.

It appears that $180M is within range for Disney’s Lilo & Stitch after an estimated $47M, -15% from Friday. Even if Lilo finally files in the high $170Ms, big deal.

Interesting to note that the last two Final Destination movies have had a history of holding from their Friday to Saturday, 2009’s previous opening record holder, The Final Destination dipped 6%, while 2011’s Final Destination 5 inched down by 15%.