The rise of Glue’s box office breaks the July 4th record – The Hollywood Reporter

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The long July 4th holiday weekend is becoming a big hit for Hollywood. Minions: The rise of glue Initial estimates suggest that the country is heading for a huge $ 129.2 million four-day opening. This includes $ 109.5 million for three days.

Overseas, the movie will exceed $ 86 million by Sunday, making it a global loot of over $ 200 million.

Forget to break the record of the pandemic era with the family title. Illuminations and Universal films boast one of the unprecedented top-start domestic box office revenues for big, uninflated, animated Hollywood events.

Transporting on Friday alone cost about $ 48 million from 4,400 theaters. This includes a hefty $ 10.8 million in preview.

Movie performance is important in ensuring that parents and younger children are ready to return to the multiplex in the crowd. Throughout the pandemic, animated films have been seen as a challenging genre.Pixar and Disney Toy story spin off Lightyear It opened for $ 51 million lukewarm last month before it plunged over the weekend.

Until now, of Paramount Sonic the Hedgehog 2The live-action / CGI hybrid held the record for the biggest opening of the pandemic era, with a PG family release of $ 72 million.

For Hollywood’s largest July 4th opening, 2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Earn $ 115.9 million over the same four-day holiday weekend, followed by Spider-man 2 ($ 115.8 million) and 2017 Despicable Me Minion 3 ($ 99 million). If the quote is valid, Minions 2 It is easily ranked first. Spider-Man: Homecoming This is an entry for July 4th, as the holiday fell in the middle of the week of 2017, but this is not an apple-to-apple comparison (Homecoming Debuted domestically for $ 117 million on the weekend of July 7-9).

Another milestone moment: Weekend overall revenue is actually ahead of the same frame in 2019 as box office revenue recovery continues to gain momentum.Holdover, especially Top Gun: Maverick — It is also a factor of Boon.

The rise of gurus The sequel to 2015 minion Is the 5th entry to despicable me The franchise is the best-selling anime series in history and is inflation-unadjusted.

Towards the weekend, tracking suggested that Minions 2 A four-day vacation will open in the range of $ 70 million to $ 80 million, but some believe it can do more. Going with the four-day numbers, the movie holds the record for the franchise’s best opening.But if you go in 3 days, it will be a little late minion ($ 115.7 million).

Minions 2 Just to be the 10th animated Hollywood movie to debut for over $ 100 million Incredibles 2 ($ 182.7 million).

Awarded audience Minions: The rise of glue Has been a strong success with the ACinema Score.

The star-filled voice cast features Steve Carell, Pierre Coffin, Alan Arkin, Michelle Yeoh, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Taraji P. Henson, Lucy Lawless, Dolph Lundgren, RZA, Danny Trejo, and Jean-Claude Van Damme. The Origin Story reveals how Supervillain Glue (Karel) and Minions met when Glue was a boy who grew up in the suburbs in the 1970s.

Top gun 2 It has been booming for over a month since it first jumped into the theater and seems to be benefiting from a patriotic vacation. The photo is estimated to be $ 26.9 million in three days, down just 9% from last weekend. After finishing at $ 572.6 million on Monday, it will reach $ 600 million domestically, so we need to earn an estimated $ 34 million in four days.

Elvis It fell to third place on the second weekend, with an estimated three-day total of $ 18.5 million, four days of $ 23.7 million, and a national biographical total of $ 72 million.

Jurassic World Dominion When Black phone We will conclude the top five and offer three universals out of the top five spots.