Box Office Trends 7/15

Animation continues to rule, with Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 making a combined $65.4 M domestic during the weekend.

(From today, every Monday will include a Box Office and streaming trends breakdown.)

Here’s the breakdown of Despicable Me 4’s second-weekend domestic performance over the franchise history:

$32.8 M - Despicable Me (2010)

• 42% drop

$43.8 M - Despicable Me 2 (2013)

• 48% drop

$33.5 M - Despicable Me 3 (2017)

• 54% drop

$44.65 M - Despicable Me 4 (2024)

• 40% drop

• $211.1 M Domestic total

• $437.8 M Global

• $100 M budget

• Trailer

DM4 bested all previous installments in both the 2nd-weekend drop-off rate and domestic performance. It even outperformed the drop for the latest Minions film. But not its second weekend: