Box-Office Weekend: MINIONS & MONSTERS is #1

Box Office Weekend

After two weeks atop the box-office weekend top ten, Toy Story 5 was unseated by newcomer Minions & Monsters by a mere $5.4 million.

“Minions & Monsters” posterIn its first weekend of release, the Universal Pictures product Minions & Monsters brought in $36.4 million for the studio, giving the film an overall opening week total of $61.4 million during the holiday. This debut pushed last weekend’s top film, Toy Story 5, to second place where it took in $31.0 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, lifting the film’s three-week total to $366.3 million. Meanwhile, Angel saw its Young Washington debut in third place where it brought in $20.8 million for the studio. This activity pushed Supergirl down two spots to a fourth-place finish where it made $9.6 million for Warner Bros., bringing the film’s two-week total to $58.5 million. Holding its ground in fifth place, Universal Pictures’ Disclosure Day added $6.0 million over the weekend to lift the film’s four-week total to $105.3 million.

Following a third-place finish a week ago, Obsession fell to sixth place where it brought in $5.3 million for Focus Features, lifting the film’s eight-week total to $245.3 million. Dropping a spot to land in seventh place, A24’s Backrooms made $3.3 million over the weekend, bringing the film’s six-week tally to $190.5 million. Falling four spots to grab an eighth-place finish this weekend, Paramount Pictures’ Jackass: Best and Last made the studio $2.7 million to bring the film’s two-week total to $13.8 million. After a seventh-place finish a week ago, Scary Movie fell two spots to claim ninth place with $1.1 million this weekend for Paramount Pictures, giving the film a five-week total of $105.9 million. Finally, A24 saw its release The Invite creep into the top ten in its second weekend of release to land in the tenth spot with just over $800,000 – bringing the film’s two-week total to $1.4 million.

Yet again, the three films at the bottom of the Box-Office Weekend top ten from a week ago all dropped from this weekend’s list. Following an eighth-place finish last weekend, BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity fell out of the top ten with a one-week total of $3.9 million garnered for Fathom Entertainment. Meanwhile, the Amazon MGM Studios release, Masters of the Universe, managed to bring in a total of $63.2 million during its first four weeks in release before giving up its ninth-place finish last weekend and dropping out of the top ten as well. Finally, with a seven-week total of $176.8 million, the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu departs the top ten and is unfortunately being referred to as a box-office failure.

Weekend Box Office
(July 3rd – July 5th)

    1. Minions & Monsters…$36.4 Million
    2. Toy Story 5…$31.0 Million
    3. Young Washington…$20.8 Million
    4. Supergirl…$9.6 Million
    5. Disclosure Day…$6.0 Million
    6. Obsession…$5.3 Million
    7. Backrooms…$3.3 Million
    8. Jackass: Best and Last…$2.7 Million
    9. Scary Movie…$1.1 Million
    10. The Invite…$800,708
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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