‘Despicable Me 4’ adds a $75M weekend to its $122.6M holiday haul
‘Despicable Me,' ‘Inside Out 2’ and ‘A Quite Place: Day One’ each grossed at least $20M over the three-day weekend.
Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of July 5-7, 2024.
1. DESPICABLE ME 4
Weekend gross: $75M
Total domestic gross: $122.6M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA
The box office continued its summer celebration over the Fourth of July weekend, with the top three releases all grossing at least $20 million. Despicable Me 4 led the way with a $75 million three-day weekend. The $75 million was in addition to the $47.6 million that the latest Despicable Me movie grossed over Wednesday and Thursday.
The Despicable Me/Minions franchise has a history of opening over the Fourth of July weekend, which makes it hard to find a standard Friday-Sunday three-day weekend comparison. Ignoring these discrepancies, Despicable Me 4’s three-day weekend was pretty close to Despicable Me 3’s $72.4 million weekend and slightly behind Despicable Me 2’s $84.2 million.
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