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
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: