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BOX OFFICE TRENDS
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 the Box Office and streaming trends. A summary will be featured below with a link to a deep dive 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 Domestic total
$437.8 M Global
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:
$46.1 M - Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)
57% drop
This puts the total gross of the Despicable Me and Minions series at $5.09 bn, the highest-grossing animated series of all time.
(Here is the link to the full breakdown of the Box office winners and losers - theindustry.co/box-office-breakdown)
Here’s the breakdown of the rest of the top 10:
$22.6 M - Longlegs (Neon)
Biggest horror opening of 2024
Week 1
$20.7 M - Inside Out 2 (Pixar)
$572.6 M domestic total
$1.3 bn Global
Week 5
$11.8 M - A Quiet Place: Day One (Paramount)
$116 M domestic total
$203 M Global
Week 3
$10 M - Fly Me to the Moon - (Sony/Apple)
$19 M Global
Week 1
$4.4 M - Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Sony)
$184 M domestic total
$378 M Global
Week 6
$2.4 M - Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 (Warner Bros.)
$27 M domestic total
$29.5 M Global
Week 3
$2 M - Maxxxine (A24)
$11.7 M domestic total
$14.7 M Global
Week 2
$1.3 M - Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (Angel Studios)
$9.7 M domestic total
Week 2
$1 M - The Liong King (Disney, re-release)
$423.8 M domestic total (since 1994)
$977.9 M Global
Week 1 (re-release)
Here are the biggest losers:
$42.4 K - National Anthem (Variance Films/LD Entertainment)
Week 1
$24 K - Last Summer (Janus Films)
$104 K domestic total
$983 K Global
Week 3
$20 K - Ghostlight (IFC Films)
$634 K domestic total
Week 5
(Here is the link to the full breakdown of the Box office winners and losers - theindustry.co/box-office-breakdown)
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