Paramount's Final Move?
Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:
Despicable Me opens, Paramount closes, Wanda Sykes gets dramatic, Smart House on steroids, Australia doubles down, and a glacier.
Let’s go!
We’re going to start to do detailed Box Office breakdowns every Monday.
Animation continues to rule, with Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 making a combined $105 M domestic during the three-day weekend. However, some of Despicable Me 4’s opening weekend profits were cannibalized by Inside Out 2, which enjoyed a healthy $30 M domestic fourth weekend.
Here’s the breakdown of Despicable Me 4’s domestic performance over the franchise history:
Despicable Me (2010)
$56.3 M
Despicible Me 2 (2013)
$84.2 M
Despicible Me 3 (2017)
$72.4 M
Despicible Me 4 (2013)
$75 M
$230 M Global
There seems to be some slight growth from DM3 to DM4, but the latest film in the Minions universe outperformed it by a long shot:
Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)
$107 M
Here’s the breakdown of the rest of the top 10:
$30 M - Inside Out 2 (Pixar)
$533.8 M domestic total
$1.2 bn Global
Week 4
$21 M - A Quiet Place: Day One (Paramount)
$94 M domestic total
$178 M Global
Week 2
$6.7 M - Maxxxine (A24)
$7.8 M Global
Outperformed the rest of the trilogy (X, Pearl) by 58% and 114%, respectively
Week 1
$6.5 M - Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Sony)
$177 M domestic total
$360 M Global
Week 5
$5.5 M - Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 (Warner Bros.)
$22.2 M domestic total
$22.7 M Global
Week 2
$3.2 M - Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (Angel Studios)
$6.8 M 4-day domestic opening
Week 1
$1.8 M - Kalki 2898-AD (Prathyangira Cinemas)
$16.5 M domestic total
Week 2
$1.3 M - The Bikeriders (Focus Features)
$19.3 M domestic total
$29.5 M Global
Week 3
$860K - Kinds of Kindness (Searchlight)
$3.8 M domestic total
$6.5 M Global
Week 3
Here are the biggest losers:
$72 K - Hijack 1971 (Sony)
$10.4 M Global
Week 1
$30.8 K - Robot Dreams (Neon)
$631 K domestic total
$4.4 M Global
Week 6
$19 K - Seven Samurai (Janus Films)
Seven Samurai made all $19K of a single screen, besting every per-screen average of the weekend, even topping Despicable Me 4’s PSA of $16.9 K.