On a fairly slow mid-July weekend, Sony’s Hotel Transylvania 3 easily took first with a strong $44.1 million, coming in on the higher end of expectations, while Universal’s action thriller Skyscraper flopped with just $25.4 million. Meanwhile, Sorry to Bother You did very good business in its nationwide expansion, while A24’s Eighth Grade scored the best per theater average of 2018.

Hotel Transylvania 3 showed the franchises impressive staying power once again, as it opened right in between its two predecessors, the second film in the franchise performing significantly better than the first. This opening does not include the $1.75 million from early screenings at 1,000 locations, with tickets being sold exclusively through Amazon Prime. Sony also did this for Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle as a way to boost opening weekend and get buzz out early, without losing any ticket sales that traditional early screenings have (which are generally free). Considering how successful it has been so far, they will likely continue with any other family-oriented titles currently in the pipeline.

Skyscraper hoped that The Rock’s presence would be enough to sell a very generic looking Die Hard clone, but it seems like general audiences simply weren’t interested, as the film landed in third with just $25 million. While this was clearly made for overseas audiences, there was still hope that it would be able to come close to the totals of something like Rampage, and not end up on par with Baywatch. The main problem would seem to be that The Rock’s films heavily benefit from family audiences, who were all seeing Hotel Transylvania, and action fans already had the much more successful Ant-Man and the Wasp to choose from, leading to this poor opening. With brutal competition from both Mission Impossible: Fallout and The Equalizer II on the horizon, Skyscraper will likely get demolished short of $60 million.

Speaking of Ant-Man and the Wasp, Marvel’s sequel was just shy of breaking Spider-Man: Homecoming‘s record for the worst second weekend drop in MCU history. Unfortunately, Ant-Man plummeted 62% this weekend, with a second weekend of just $28 million that was far worse than had been anticipated. After ten days, the domestic gross is admittedly higher than its predecessor, but has taken in a mediocre $132 million. As of now, $200 million domestic is no longer looking like the guarantee it once was.

In eventh place, Annapurna Pictures enjoyed a solid expansion for Sorry to Bother You, which dialed up $4.2 million from 805 locations. Initially it seemed rather bold of them to go from 4 locations to a full on nationwide release in just one week, but it seems as though it worked out for them quite nicely. It should wind up with over $10 million by the end of its run, perhaps over $15 million if it doesn’t fall off next weekend.

Neon’s documentary hit Three Identical Strangers saw a moderate expansion into 170 locations and scored an excellent $1.1 million, for a per theater average just shy of $7K. The real story, though, was A24’s coming-of-age dramedy Eighth Grade, which scored the highest per theater average of any theatrical release of 2018, surpassing Isle of Dogs’ $60K. In just four locations, Burnham’s feature debut scored a fantastic $252K. A24 is set to expand the film into more cities next weekend, though no plans of nationwide release have been made public at this time. Between this, and the success of Hereditary, the indie studio has enjoyed a very strong summer. Speaking of Hereditary, the horror drama is inching closer and closer to topping Lady Bird‘s $76.9 million worldwide take, and is just shy of $43 million domestic on a budget of just $10 million. Finally, the last noteworthy limited release was Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far On Foot. The Gus Van Sant comedy took a good $20K average from four locations, and is set to expand on the 27th.