LOS ANGELES, United States — “
Minions: The Rise of Gru”, the latest
installment in the animated “,” franchise, crushed the competition
at the North American box office in its opening weekend, with an expected
$127.9 million take over the four-day July 4 holiday.
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Universal’s
“Minions” far outpaced the number two film, “Top Gun: Maverick”, which came in
at $32.5 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Sunday.
“This is a
sensational opening,” said analyst
David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment
Research.
“Family
animation, more than any other genre, has struggled to find its footing during
the pandemic,” he said. “This weekend, Minions is breaking through and big
animation is back in business.”
According to
Variety, if confirmed, the box office haul would make the fifth chapter in the
Despicable Me series about reformed super-villain Gru and his yellow Minions
the highest film opening over Independence Day, besting 2011’s “Transformers:
Dark of the Moon.”
Rolling along in
second place is Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick, the crowd-pleasing sequel to the
original 1986 film that once again features Tom Cruise as cocky US Navy test
pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.
The film has
raked in more than $1.1 billion worldwide.
Baz Luhrmann’s
music biopic “
Elvis” — starring relative newcomer Austin Butler as the King
alongside Tom Hanks as his exploitative manager, Colonel Tom Parker — dropped
to third place in its second weekend of release, at $23.7 million.
Fourth place
went to “Jurassic World Dominion”, Universal’s sixth installment in the
“Jurassic Park” franchise, at $19.2 million.
The latest
dinosaur fright fest stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard alongside franchise
originals Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum.
Rounding out the top
five was horror film “The Black Phone” starring Ethan Hawke as a serial killer,
which earned $14.6 million in its second weekend in theaters.
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