“The Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru” achieves the best start of this weekend in the United States. With an estimated $127 million at the end of the day, the film is ahead of “Transformers 3” at the top of the July 4 releases.
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The latest film was “supposed to be released in 2020” but was delayed due to the pandemic. Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru Topping the US box office for the 4th of July weekend with $108.5 million recorded in 3 days. According to experts, Kyle Balda’s film tonight (public holiday in USA) will be 127 million GEL.
Once Upon a Time thus achieves the highest score for a July 4th weekend, taking the place of Transformers 3, which collected $115.9 million in 4 days.
The first Minions movie (released in July 2015) earned $115 million in its opening weekend. Minions then achieved the second best opening for an animated film of all time behind Shrek 3 and its $121 million.
Stronger than me, nasty minions
Therefore, movies centered around the little yellow creatures are doing better than the Ugly Me and the Mercantile trilogy ($56 million in July 2010 for Part 1, $83 million in July 2013 for Part 2, and $42 million in July 2017 for Me, The Ugly and the Wicked 3. ) .
Once in Gru, the minions begin to cooperate with their mini-boss. When he’s kidnapped by a big bad guy, Kevin, Bobby and the others decide to do whatever it takes to save young Gru, even if it means learning kung fu or crossing the country. Minions 2 hits theaters this Wednesday, July 6th.
Top Gun is more powerful than Pirates of the Caribbean
Top Gun: Maverick continues to grow and amounts to an additional 25 million. Tom Cruise’s used film is on the second step of the podium and has recorded 564 million dollars in the American territory since its release.
With an international soundtrack gross of $1.1 billion, the sequel is now the highest-grossing film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, behind 2006’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, which grossed $1.066 billion.
debut at the US box office last week, Elvis Baz Luhrmann takes third place this weekend with $19 million for a two-week total of $67.3 million.
Dinosaurs is in its 4th week in theaters Jurassic World: The World After Earn an additional 15.6 million and therefore $331 million on US soil.
Black phoneScott Derrickson’s horror film continues its journey to 12 million this weekend. Lightning fly continues to slide at the US box office.
Is Buzz Lightyear responsible for much of the “Disney strategy”?
The Space Ranger-centric Toy Story spin-off earns just $6 million this week (105 million total) as families clearly flock to theaters as Minions 2’s results confirm 2 .
Blame Disney’s strategy of choosing to release the latest Pixar films (Soul, Luca, Red Alert) directly on Disney+? In the US, Encanto was available on the streaming platform just 1 month after its theatrical release. Although a release date for Buzz Lightyear has yet to be announced, American audiences seem to prefer to wait until the film is available for streaming.
The second (and only) newcomer to hit the US box office this week is the romantic comedy Mr. Malcolm’s list With Freida Pinto, Zaveh Ashton, Sope Dirisu and Theo James. This adaptation of Susan Allen’s novel cost a total of $852,000. A release date in France has not yet been announced.
Source: allocine
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