Minions 2: How Gru Gets Terrible opened at the US box office with $ 48.2M (including $ 10.8M previews).
the best opening for an Illumination-Universal film topping Minions ($ 46M plus previews).
This is the third best opening ever for an animated feature film:
01. The Incredibles 2 71.3M
02. Finding Dory 54.7M
03. Minions 2: How Gru Gets Bad 48.2M
04. Toy Story 4 47.4M
05. Minions 46M
06. Frozen 2 42.2M
07. Toy Story 3 41.1M
08. The Secret Life of Pets 38.5M
09. Shrek the third 38.4M
10. Despicable Me 2 35M
Top 5 Opening Days of 2022
$ 90.7M Doctor Strange 2
$ 59.6M Jurassic World The Dominion
$ 56.6M The Batman
$ 52.0M Top Gun: Maverick
$ 48.2M Minions 2: How Gru Gets Despicable
It is estimated that the film will gross $ 109.5M in the first three days and up to July 4, $ 129.2M. The worldwide debut is estimated at $ 196.6M ($ 202.1M including residuals).
The 4-day record belongs to Transformers 3 ($ 115.88M), followed by Spider-Man 2 ($ 115,817,364).
The film earned an A on CinemaScore as Minions and the first two chapters of Despicable Me . On PostTrak it is 87% positive, and 71% recommended. The audience is 35% Caucasian, 35% Latino and Hispanic, 12% black and 18% Asian / other.
Top 10 estimates, July 1-4:
1. Minions 2 : 4,391 theaters, Fri $ 48.1M, 3-days $ 109.5M, 4-days $ 129.2M (Uni) Wk 1
2. Top Gun: Maverick : 3,843 (-105) theaters, Fri $ 7.1M (-14%) , 3-day $ 26.8M (-9%), 4-day $ 34.3M, Total $ 572.7M (Par) Wk 6
3. Elvis : 3,932 (+26) cinema, Fri $ 5.3M (-58%), 3-day $ 20.3 M (-35%), 4-day $ 25M, Total $ 73.3M (WB) Wk 2
4. Jurassic World Domain : 3,801 (-432) theaters, Fri $ 4.5M (-40%), 3-day $ 16.1M ( -39%), 4-day $ 19.9M, Total $ 336M (Uni) Wk 4
5. Black Phone : 3,156 (+6) cinema, Fri $ 3.9M (-62%), 3-day $ 11.9M (-50%) , 4-day $ 14.1M, Total $ 49.3M (Uni) Wk 2
6. Lightyear: 3,800 (-455) theaters, Fri $ 2M (-63%), 3-day $ 6.4M (-65%), 4-day $ 7.9M, Total $ 106.7M (Dis) Wk 3
7. Mr. Malcolm’s List : 1,384 cinema, Fri $ 309,000, 3-days $ 901,000, 4-days $ 1.06M (BST) Wk 1
8. Everything, Everywhere All at Once : 607 (+83) cinema, Fri $ 141,000 (-2%), 3-days $ 507.6k (-4%), 4-day $ 630k, Total $ 67M (A24) Wk 15
9. Doctor Strange 2 : 590 (-1,265) cinema, Fri $ 108k (-80%), 3-day $ 361, 6,000 (-79%), 4-day $ 449,000, Total $ 410.6M (Dis) Wk 9
10. Jug Jugg Jeeyo : 318 cinemas, Fri $ 98.6,000 (-58%), 3-day $ 333,000 (-54%) , 4-day $ 409k, Total: $ 1.5M (Moviegoer) Wk 2
11. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: 22 (+16) cinemas, Fri $ 87 thousand (+ 6%), 3-days $ 253 thousand (+ 59%), 4-days $ 310 thousand, Total $ 533 thousand (A24) Wk 2
Top Gun: Maverick grossed $ 7.15M (-9% from Thursday, -14% from last week) bringing the total to $ 545.63M. The film peaked at # 12 on the US Most Successful Film Chart By the same time, Avatar had grossed $ 9M / $ 526M.
Elvis gets $ 5.3M on his second Friday, -58% from last Friday, reaching a total of $ 53.6M. At the same time , RocketMan had grossed $ 3.8M (-59%) and Bohemian Rhapsody $ 8.4M (-55%).