“Minions” debuts with box office revenue of $ 108.5 million

The family went to the cinema this weekend to eat bananas for the Minions. According to Universal Pictures, “Minions: The Rise of Guru” has brought an estimated $ 108.5 million in ticket sales from 4,391 screens in North America. By the end of Monday’s July 4th holiday, it probably earned over $ 127.9 million.

The film is the biggest opening ever on the July 4th holiday weekend, a record previously held by Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which earned $ 115.9 million in the first four days of 2011. It will be one. “Minions: The Rise of Gru” has been screened in 61 markets, with a global total of $ 202.2 million until Sunday.

“This is a great debut,” said Jim O, president of Universal’s domestic distribution division. “It’s played very widely throughout North America. All markets are very strong.”

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This is the latest in a series of successful Universal family releases, including Sing 2, which has generated more than $ 406 million since its opening in December, and The Bad Guys, which has generated more than $ 243 million. It is. “Minions: The Rise of Guru” serves as further evidence that family spectators are happy to return to the theater.

“The family feels very comfortable taking all their children to the theater,” Orr said. “These results speak for themselves.”

“Minions 2” has attracted all age groups to the theater from an early age. According to a PostTrak survey, 12% were under the age of 10.

“For months, there was this idea that family spectators wouldn’t come back to the theater,” said Paul Delgarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore.

The spin-off of the popular “Despicable Me” series was delayed by two years due to a pandemic. The sequel to the 2015 movie “Minions” was originally scheduled for release in July 2020. While many other animated family movies have opted for streaming or hybrid releases, “Minions” like “Top Gun: Maverick” will stay on course and have an ideal time to be shown only in theaters. I waited. And, like “Top Gun”, it seemed worth the wait.

“It was an event. It was a holiday weekend. The release date was perfect and the marketing was accurate,” said Delgarabedian. “And everyone knew that this would only happen in the theater.”

The voice performer will feature Steve Carell, replaying his role as Gru, Alan Arkin, Michelle Yeoh, and Julie Andrews as Gru’s mother. Critics were mixed positively (currently 72% at Rotten Tomatoes), but viewers were more enthusiastic and gave Gru’s origin story an A Cinema Score.

Universal and Illuminations have had great success in the five Despicable Me films and spin-offs dating back to 2010, earning more than $ 3.7 billion in global box office revenue.

In second place is Top Gun: Maverick, which has continued to deliver in six weeks, adding an additional $ 25.5 million in total, already over $ 1 billion. Paramount Pictures movies are still showing in 3,843 locations.

Warner Bros.’Elvis’ came in third, down just 39% on the second weekend at the theater. By Sunday, the Baz Luhrmann film had generated an estimated $ 19 million in revenue, bringing the domestic total to $ 67.3 million.

4th and 5th place also became universal titles, with Jurassic World: Dominion earning an additional $ 15.7 million and the horror movie The Black Phone adding $ 12.3 million by Sunday.

Meanwhile, Disney’s “Lightyear” fell further on the third weekend for an estimated $ 6.5 million. By Monday, that total should increase to $ 8.1 million and cumulative revenue should be $ 106.9 million.

Bleecker Street’s “Mr. Malcolm List” was released this weekend on 1,384 screens in the United States and Canada. The regency comedy of etiquette starring Freida Pinto and Zouia Ashton as friends who want to return to the grumpy bachelor. The studio estimates that the movie will be $ 851,853 by the end of Sunday and over $ 1 million by the end of Monday.

Viewers are also catching up with A24’s “Everything Everywhere All At Once” and can rent it on demand, but an estimated $ 552,000 has been added from the 607 screen. The studio’s new title, “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” will be expanded to 22 screens this weekend and is expected to generate approximately $ 308,000 in revenue by the end of Monday.

Overall, weekends will fall as one of the biggest in the pandemic era, according to Comscore. And that momentum is expected to continue with the release of Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” next week.

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Estimated ticket sales from Friday to Sunday at theaters in the US and Canada, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be announced on Tuesday.

1. “Minions Feeling of Guru”, $ 108.5 million.

2. “Top Gun: Maverick”, $ 25.5 million.

3. “Elvis”, $ 19 million.

4. “Jurassic World: Dominion”, $ 15.7 million.

5. “The Black Phone”, $ 12.3 million.

6. “Lightyear”, $ 6.6 million.

7. “Mr. Malcolm’s List, $ 851,853.

8. “All at once” $ 551,974.

9. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”, $ 390,000.

10. “Jug Jugg Jeeyo”, $ 318,000.