Every Movie In The $100 Million Losers Club Ranked

"What goes up must come down," as Sir Isaac Newton once said (more or less), a statement that applies just as much to movies as to apples. Though perhaps a better idiom would be "The bigger they are, the harder they fall." For every "Top Gun: Maverick" that has had only mild week-to-week drops, there are far more blockbusters that absolutely plummet after their huge first weekends. This is largely because of our opening weekend culture, where blockbusters burn off demand in just three days.

An astounding 67 movies (and counting) have opened above $100 million since "Spider-Man" kicked that door down 20 years ago — and 15 of them have lost that much by their second weekend too, forming a team of films called the "$100 million losers club" (a term popularized by Forbes). We're counting down these $100 million losers based on numeric losses. We're not saying they tanked or were terrible (well, not all of them, at least), only that they had significant drop-offs in their second weekends. How much? Let's find out! Here's every movie in the $100 million losers club ranked!

Pixar used to be unbeatable at the box office. Key phrase: "used to." Based on the bad "buzz" for "Lightyear" (yes, we made that joke), Pixar's glory days may be behind it. When even the $3.6 billion "Toy Story" franchise isn't immune, you know you're in trouble. Might be time for Pixar to make a sequel to its biggest hit, "Incredibles 2." This 2018 film made $1.2 billion worldwide, nearly $200 more than "Toy Story 4," Pixar's second highest-grossing film. 

While "Incredibles 2" did well everywhere, its gross was largely driven by North America, where it made $608 million, or 49% of its global gross. And "Incredibles 2" made 30% of its domestic gross in just three days, with its $182 million opening weekend — Pixar's biggest by about $50 million. Incredible indeed. While Pixar films are known for their long legs, an opening weekend that massive meant "Incredibles 2" was bound to suffer a bigger fall than usual. Indeed it fell 56% to $80 million — still a massive haul, but a drop-off of about $102 million. Yep, in one week "Incredibles 2" dropped about what "Lightyear" has earned in total, domestically, so far.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" set the opening weekend record in 2011 with $169 million. Just one year later, "The Avengers" absolutely obliterated that number by more than $38 million with a $207 million opening weekend, becoming the first movie to open above $200 million. While Earth's Mightiest Heroes — or any characters — from multiple franchises teaming up on-screen seems like old hat now, back in the day (10 years ago) it was still the domain of comic books, not movies.

Well, "The Avengers" changed all that, and soon everybody in the movie industry wanted to get into the crossover game (RIP "Dark Universe"). We think the film's $623 million domestic and $1.5 billion worldwide box office gross had something to do with it. Despite its historic opening, "The Avengers" only dropped 50%, earning a $103 million second weekend. An impressive hold to be sure, but a mighty drop of $104 million.

"Avengers Part III" — er, "Iron Man 4" — er, "Captain America: Civil War" continued the Captain America franchise's box office growth, becoming only the second non-Avengers MCU movie at that time to gross more than $1 billion at the box office. Of course, it helped that it starred the character who was in the first solo superhero MCU movie to gross a billion bucks, Iron Man. The prospect of seeing Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man throw down proved a tremendous draw, scoring an opening weekend of $179 million, about $84 million higher than "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and the best non-Avengers opening in the MCU at that time.

But despite sky-high Tomatometer scores from both critics and fans, interest in "Captain America: Civil War" flamed out quicker than Evans' other Marvel character, Johnny "The Human Torch" Storm. In its second weekend, "Captain America: Civil War" plunged 59.5% to $72 million (par for the course with big blockbusters) for a drop-off of $107 million. However, it kept plummeting week to week, finishing at the domestic box office with $408 million. While that was $149 million more than "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" earned in 2014, the opening weekend for "Captain America: Civil War" accounted for about 44% of its domestic business, making it one of the MCU's most front-loaded films.

So for those of you who don't remember a world before 2020, the year 2019 was dominated by Disney, with seven of the year's top 10 biggest hits coming from the Mouse House. Meanwhile one of them, Sony's "Spider-Man: Far From Home," was produced by Disney-owned Marvel. While most of those hits were from companies Disney acquired (Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar), Disney's biggest homegrown hit was "The Lion King," the live-action (more or less) remake of their 1995 animated classic.

Turns out Disney fans really wanted to see a basically shot-for-shot remake of the film they watched to death on their clamshell VHS copy, as "The Lion King" grossed $543 million domestically and $1.6 billion worldwide, finishing second only to "Avengers: Endgame" for the year. It's easy to sing "Hakuna Matata" with numbers like that. Thirty-five percent of the film's gross came from its opening weekend, $191 million, showing "The Lion King" had fairly long legs (for a summer blockbuster, at least). However, "The Lion King" did topple down pride rock by 60% in its second weekend, earning $76 million, a drop-off of $115 million.

The Harry Potter franchise is the highest-grossing film franchise based on books, topping even "The Lord of the Rings" with over $9.5 billion worldwide. Yes, there have been twice as many Potter films (including the "Fantastic Beasts" spinoffs) as Middle-Earth movies, but we digress. The biggest hit in the series is "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," which earned $1.3 billion worldwide, more than $363 million more than second-place finisher "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" 10 years before. Surprisingly, "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" is also the only Harry Potter movie to top $1 billion.

"Deathly Hallows: Part 2" opened to $169 million, breaking the opening weekend record Warner Bros. had set three years before with "The Dark Knight" by about $10 million. However, unlike "The Dark Knight," which had famously long staying power, "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" suffered a deadly drop in its second weekend, earning only $47 million, a week-to-week fall of $122 million. As bad as that number is, its 72% drop tells the real story, as "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" had the biggest percentage drop on our list. Guess those teenagers who dressed up for the midnight showing didn't feel like coming back for seconds.

"Avengers: Infinity War" brought Earth's Mightiest Heroes back to their record-breaking ways, as the opening weekend record set by "The Avengers" in 2012 had been broken twice, first by "Jurassic World" and then by "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." The 2018 film earned a $257 million opening weekend and made it look like a "snap" (see what we did there?). While not quite "Top Gun: Maverick" in terms of summer staying power, "Avengers: Infinity War" did have some legs, dropping only 55.5% in its second weekend, lower than the MCU standard.

However, 55.5% of $257 million is $114 million, a drop-off of $143 million, one of the biggest on our list. While "Avengers: Infinity War" topped the year by about $700 million worldwide, on the domestic front victory belonged to "Black Panther." While "Black Panther" opened about $55 million less than "Avengers: Infinity War" (with a still incredible $202 million), thanks to its strong week-to-week holds, "Black Panther" actually topped the year domestically.

"Spider-Man: No Way Home" became the "Avengers: Endgame" of the nine-film Spider-Man series, combining characters from every film, sans the animated "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse." This isn't exactly a hot take, but Spider-Man is really popular, and bringing together all of the Spider-Men was bound to be a big deal. Even so, we didn't realize how big of a deal it was until the holiday season in 2021.

Proving that moviegoers weren't scared of the pandemic (they just weren't interested in most of the movies Hollywood released during the pandemic), "Spider-Man: No Way Home" earned $260 million opening in its opening weekend, becoming the second-biggest opening weekend of all time. However, the spider appeared to stumble in its sophomore frame, losing 67.5% of its audience for a $84 million second week, a huge loss of about $175 million. However, much like Spider-Man does in pretty much every movie, the wall-crawler recovered from the temporary setback and went on to score over an amazing $804 million domestic and over $1.9 billion worldwide, making "Spider-Man: No Way Home" the highest-grossing solo-superhero film of all time and the highest-grossing Spider-Man film by more than $753 million.