Weekend Box Office 7/3 - 4th of July Edition

[Monterey Jack]

Minions: TROG will make over $30 million more in three days than Lightyear has done in two weeks.



it deserves to, too...this made me laugh harder and more consistently than any of the previous Despicable Me or Minion movies. And the kids all applauded heartily at the end.

[AndyDursin]

Like MJ wrote (moved it here for newest discussion!) this is a great opening for MINIONS as LIGHTYEAR crashes and burns. I saw it with Theo and fam yesterday, the kids applauded at the end of that screening also.

Great performance still for TOP GUN -- I think the problem for the movies is a lack of content, as I scrolled through the release calendar and there's nothing I plan on seeing for the next 90 days at least. Maybe even longer as I'm out on Marvel product unless Theo forces me to one day watch them. (I'll also say nothing of all the HORRID looking "talking animal" cartoons with Kevin Hart involved in seemingly every one of them that are also coming out in the next 6 months -- the trailers of which we suffered through yesterday LOL).

1.) Minions: Rise of Gru (Uni) 4,391 theaters, Fri $48.1M, 3-day $109.5M, 4-day $129.2M/Wk 1
Minions: Rise of Gru‘s Friday is also the best ever for an Illumination-Universal movie, beating Minions’ first Friday (and previews) of $46M.

2.) Top Gun: Maverick (Par) 3,843 (-105) theaters, Fri $7.1M (-14%), 3-day $26.8M (-9%), 4-day $34.3M, Total $572.7M/Wk 6

3.) Elvis (WB) 3,932 (+26) theaters, Fri $5.3M (-58%), 3-day $20.3M (-35%) 4-day $25M, Total $73.3M/Wk 2

4.) Jurassic World Dominion (Uni) 3,801 (-432) theaters, Fri $4.5M (-40%), 3-day $16.1M (-39%), 4-day $19.9M, Total $336M/Wk 4

5.) The Black Phone (Uni) 3,156 (+6) theaters, Fri $3.9M (-62%), 3-day $11.9M (-50%), 4-day $14.1M,/Total $49.3M: Wk 2

6.) Lightyear (Dis) 3,800 (-455) theaters, Fri $2M (-63%)/3-day $6.4M (-65%), 4-day $7.9M, Total $106.7M/Wk

[Monterey Jack]

The fact that Maverick had an only 9% decline in box office in its fifth weekend is astonishing. Even pre-Pandemic, that would have been almost impossible to believe. Proof that, if you don't half-ass a "legacy sequel" and make something that not only pays tribute to the original but also deepens and enriches it, audiences will beat a path to your door.

The performance of both that and Minions also proves what a fallacy it is that the two audiences that have left theaters behind for good are adults and families. Give them a good product, and they will show up. Minions wasn't some dreary, joyless social-conditioning experiment like Lightyear, it was just a cartoon, and a really funny, engaging one perfect for small fry and their parents. Like the recent The Bad Guys, it's a good example that kids just want to giggle, and parents don't want to have to explain why two ladies are kissing. You want to jam "inclusionary" gay content into a movie? At least wait until kids have hit puberty and can make their own informed decisions about what they want and don't want to see.

Also Elvis is doing solid business, despite a 160-minute runtime.

[Monterey Jack]

The "Gentle Minions" thing has to be THE dumbest fad going on right now.

[AndyDursin]

I didn't know why there were 2 stupid dressed up kids sitting in the front row. I don't understand it now either. Other than the actual clapping from kids drowned out their fake clapping lol

[Monterey Jack]

I didn't know why there were 2 stupid dressed up kids sitting in the front row. I don't understand it now either. Other than the actual clapping from kids drowned out their fake clapping lol

Glad there were none of those shenanigans at my screening. Even for a silly kids movie, one should be respectful of the audience around them and not treat the screening as a mosh pit.

[AndyDursin]

Just stupid. I didn't even notice them except when they walked in and some minor applause when it was over. They also looked about 12.

It should blow over soon but it'd be nice if the theater owners simply didn't sell them tickets for being disruptive.

[Monterey Jack]

It should blow over soon but it'd be nice if the theater owners simply didn't sell them tickets for being disruptive.

Some have...!

[AndyDursin]

Good. Like I said there were only 2 of them from what I could tell so they didn't do anything to disrupt our showing. It would certainly piss me off if they were groups of them.

I mean it makes no sense. They want to disrespect the movie by paying to see it and making it successful? That's "social media" in 2022 I guess!