Box office: 28 Years Later sets series high, while Elio marks new Pixar low

28 Years Later revived its franchise with the best opening ever for director Danny Boyle, while Elio had Pixar's worst opening ever even before taking up to 30 years of inflation into account.

Boys’ adventure tales: Spike (Alfie Williams) flees the “infected” with his dad (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) in 28 Years Later, while Elio (voice of Yonas Kibreab) goes for a ride with space-alien Glordon (Remy Edgerly) in Elio.

A few of this week’s highlights:

• How to Train Your Dragon topped the list for a second week, making this the fifth week in a row—including Lilo & Stitch’s first three weeks—that live-action remakes of animated movies have been #1 at the box office.

• 28 Years Later, the third film in the zombie series that began with 2002’s 28 Days Later, had the best opening by far of any Danny Boyle film.

• Elio—the first animated film from a major studio since Dog Man came out five months ago—had the worst opening of any Pixar movie ever (not counting the three films that went straight to Disney+ a few years ago).

And now, a few more stats and facts re: this week’s top ten, title by title: