Box-Office Weekend: Minions Climb to the Top

Last weekend’s top film stood no chance against the debut of Minions: The Rise of Gru as the animated sequel beat Top Gun: Maverick by $92.2 million to wrest control of the box-office weekend from Tom Cruise.

The latest film to feature the adventures of the Minions, titled Minions: The Rise of Gru debuted atop the top ten with $125.2 million over the four-day holiday weekend. This pushed Top Gun: Maverick to a very distant second-place finish at $33.0 million, though the film can still fall back on its six-week total of $571.5 million. As it did to Top Gun the debut of The Rise of Gru also pushed Elvis from second place to an even more distant third place with $23.5 million. This gives the Elvis Presley biography a two-week total of $71.8 million. Finishing in fourth place was the sequel Jurassic World Dominion with $19.7 million, which raises the film’s four-week total to $335.9 million. In its second weekend of release, The Black Phone finished in fifth place with $14.5 million. Despite dropping a spot over the weekend, the film still sports a two-week total of $49.6 million.

The Disney/Pixar film Lightyear finished in sixth-place with $7.9 million over the four-day weekend, giving the film a three-week total of $106.7 million. Seventh place was claimed by the weekend’s second debut, Mr. Malcolm’s List which managed to bring in $1.0 million over the weekend. Dropping from sixth to eighth place was the Marvel film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness which added $483,000 to bring its nine-week total to $410.6 million. Holding steady in ninth-place was The Bob’s Burgers Movie which took in $241,000 to raise the film’s six-week total to $31.6 million. Finally, climbing back into the top ten was Downton Abbey: A New Era which made $208,000 over the long weekend. This raise the sequel’s seven-week tally to $43.8 million.

Again, three films fell from the box-office top ten. After raising its two-week total to around $1 million, Jug Jugg Jeeyo was unceremoniously forced from the top ten. Similarly, last weekend’s ninth- and tenth-place films, Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Bad Guys both dropped from the top ten. Everything Everywhere All at Once leaves after amassing a fifteen-week total of $67.0 million, while The Bad Guys sports an eleven-week tally of $96 million..

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Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com

An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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