It might be surprising to many, but the 2016 North American box office made history for having it's highest grossing year ever with $11.2 billion. Most of this was made with sequels, superheroes and animation
Animation has taken over the summer box office with "The Secret Life of Pets" charging out the gate with $103.2 million. Family films have been rather lucrative at theaters this year
That forgetful fish in "Finding Dory" had no problem biting into the critically underwhelming "Independence Day: Resurgence." Even with Liam Hemsworth, a tepid script couldn't save the film.
"Finding Dory's" fish (voiced by Ellen Degeneres) might only have a memory ten seconds long, but its life will last some times at the box office as it became the highest-grossing animated film debut ever.