2018 summer movies by the numbers

By EW Staff
August 24, 2018 at 09:00 AM EDT

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The hugest animated movie ever! Mission: Impossible‘s craziest stunts yet! Cold, cool cash for wasps, dinosaurs, and Denzel! We hereby anoint this the summer of numbers…but just how crazy are those numbers? Click through to find out.

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Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com

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$182,687,905

Disney/Pixar

The box office bounty for Incredibles 2‘s debut, which had the largest opening weekend of summer 2018.

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4,485

Giles Keyte/Universal Pictures

The number of theaters that showed Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which also happened to be the biggest ever (for a wide release) this summer. 

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194

David Lee/Focus Features; Hopper Stone SMPSP/Lionsgate; Kyle Kaplan/Warner Bros.; Peter Prato/Annapurna Pictures

Total movies release this summer. And you thought it was peak television time. 

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$65,949

Linda Kallerus/A24

The per-theater average for the coming-of-age tale Eighth Grade, the highest of any movie this summer.

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25

Everett Collection

Years since the opening of The Joy Luck Club, the last mainstream movie with a majority-Asian cast to hit theaters.

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$26,510,140

Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros.

The amount Crazy Rich Asians made in its (No. 1 debut) opening weekend this summer, 25 years after The Joy Luck Club

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8

Barry Wetcher/Warner Bros.

Members in Debbie Ocean‘s impeccably-dressed all-female crime gang.

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Infinity

©Marvel Studios 2018

Number of times someone said “quantam” in Ant-Man and the Wasp. 

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1

Universal Pictures

Skyscraper featured in…duh…Skyscraper.

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$3,573,822,062

Disney/Pixar; David James/Paramount Pictures; Daniel Smith/Warner Bros.; Richard Foreman, Jr. SMPSP//Sony Pictures

The total U.S. box office, from the first weekend in May through August 21. 

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