Did many moviegoers, especially families, get used to Disney releasing Pixar films on Disney+ that they are skipping watching Lightyear in theaters, preferring to wait until the Toy Story spinoff is available on streaming?

That question and others were raised when Lightyear, an origin story for the character Buzz Lightyear, did not live up to two predictions – debut at number one and earn at least $70 million.

Instead, Jurassic World Dominion prevailed over Lightyear to stay on top and the new Pixar film earned $55 million in the recent 4-day Juneteenth holiday weekend, which also marked Father’s Day. That sum is not bad at all but Pixar’s first theatrical release after its three previous films went direct to streaming drew high expectations.

The sixth installment in the Jurassic Park series, top billing Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, surprised box office pundits for not being dethroned by Lightyear. JWD, as Jurassic World Dominion is also known, roared on its second weekend with a long holiday weekend haul of $68 million.

Directed by Colin Trevorrow, the final film in the Jurassic World Trilogy highlighted the return of the characters of Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and BD Wong.

The absence of an ensemble cast and that Tim Allen is no longer voicing Buzz Lightyear (it’s an origin story so Chris Evans as the voice of the young Space Ranger is understandable) were among the possible reasons put forth by analysts as to why Pixar’s latest offering did not measure up to expectations.

But some are speculating that Lightyear may turn out to be a big hit in the long haul, like Coco, Ratatouille and Cars 3, which also did not bow promisingly but ended up becoming moneymakers for Pixar. Lightyear has a current Rotten Tomatoes score of 76% but a high audience rating of 85% which may give the animated film legs, especially now that it’s summer.

Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick dropped to third place but it’s still doing spectacularly. Raking in $48 million on the Juneteenth holiday weekend for a total of $470.1 million so far, Maverick is now producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s biggest hit at the North American box office.

While the Top Gun sequel is now the highest-earning domestic release this year, overtaking Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the latter is holding up well even in the fourth spot.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe epic hit the $400 million benchmark in the United States and Canada – $405.2 million, to be exact. The superhero film, also starring Elizabeth Olsen and Chiwetel Ejiofor, chalked up four-day ticket sales of $4.4 million.

Also in the top ten were, in order: The Bob’s Burgers Movie, $1.3 million; Everything, Everywhere All at Once (2022’s wonder film, which did not debut on top but is still in the top ten even after 13 weeks), $1.2 million; The Bad Guys, $1.15 million; Downton Abbey: A New Era, $970,000; and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, $280,000.

The British comedy, Brian and Charles, opened in tenth place with $221,000. Jim Archer, making his feature directing debut with a screenplay by David Earl and Chris Hayward, who also stars, tells the story of a depressed Welsh inventor whose latest creation is an artificially intelligent robot made from a washing machine and various spare parts.

Overall, the two recent weekends beat the grosses of an equivalent period in pre-pandemic times in 2019 so industry observers are hoping that recovery is truly on the horizon.

Internationally, JWD – and even Top Gun 2 – also dominated Lightyear. The dinosaurs picked up $76.1 million in more than 70 offshore territories and passed the $600 million benchmark globally. JWD has the added advantage of a release in China, where it has earned $92.8 million so far.

Still flying high overseas, Maverick has now scored a worldwide revenue total of $885.2 million. With those figures, the Joseph Kosinski-directed action-drama has become Cruise’s biggest global hit.

But there’s good news for Lightyear internationally. The Angus MacLane-helmed animation movie bowed on top in Latin American countries, from Mexico to Peru, and in Asia, the Philippines. Still, the Pixar origin story came up with only $34.6 million overseas, for a worldwide cumulative of $85.6 million.

Next weekend, two very different movies – Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone – will further stir things up.