- ‘Minions’ crushes the American box office with $127.9 million.
- “Top Gun: Maverick,” which earned $32.5 million.
- It is confirmed that the box office earnings would surpass 2011’s.
Los Angeles: “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” the most recent entry in the “Despicable Me” franchise, outperformed the competition at the North American box office in its first weekend, grossing an anticipated $127.9 million over the four-day holiday weekend.
According to industry analyst Exhibitor Relations, Universal’s “Minions” outperformed the second-place film, “Top Gun: Maverick,” which earned $32.5 million, by a significant margin.
He claimed, “family animation has failed to regain its feet during the pandemic.” “‘Minions’ is making a splash this weekend, and major animation is back in business.”
It is confirmed that the box office earnings would surpass 2011’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” and make the fifth instalment of the “Despicable Me” series about reformed supervillain Gru and his yellow Minions the highest film opening over Independence Day.
The crowd-pleasing follow-up to the 1986 film “Top Gun,” which once again stars Tom Cruise as cocky US Navy test pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, is cruising along in second place.
Over 1.1 billion dollars have been made off of the movie globally.
The music biopic “Elvis” by Baz Luhrmann, starring Tom Hanks as the King and Austin Butler as a relative unknown Colonel Tom Parker, fell to third place with $23.7 million in its second weekend of release.
“Jurassic World Dominion,” Universal’s sixth entry in the “Jurassic Park” series, came in fourth with $19.2 million.
Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and franchise veterans Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum all appear in the most recent dinosaur frightfest.
The horror movie “The Black Phone,” in which Ethan Hawke plays a serial killer, earned $14.6 million during its second weekend in theatres, rounding out the top five.
The final were as follows:
($8.1 million) “Lightyear”
$1 million “Mr. Malcolm’s List”
The $673,00 “Everything Everywhere At Once”
A movie called “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (482,000)
($307,750) “Marcel the Shell with Shoes”
