Low-budget horror flicks may have earned the box-office headlines so far this year. But the Fourth of July weekend proved there’s still plenty of room for some good ol’ family friendly franchise fare.
As expected, Universal Picture’s Minions & Monsterstook home the box-office title this weekend, earning an estimated $36.4 million in North America as it rambled to the podium. Since the movie opened on Wednesday, its five-day total stands at a solid, if not spectacular, $61.4 million stateside.
But while the Minions’ banana of a franchise may be showing a few brown spots domestically, it’s looking positively green overseas. Minions & Monsters has already earned nearly $100 million in international markets (well, $98.4 million, to be precise), which pushes its global gross to a gru-tastic $159.9 million.
With the Minions & Monsters victory, Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 5 slipped to second place this weekend, earning a tidy $31 million in its third weekend. Overall, Toy Story 5 has lined its domestic coffers with $366.3 million, making it 2026’s third-biggest box-office smash. Look for it to claim the No. 2 spot next week when it sprints past Michael and that film’s $371.3 million. And it may well threaten The Super Mario Galaxy Movie for No. 1 before too long.
Oh, and Toy Story 5 is doing quite well overseas itself, thanks. Its international take stands at $398 million, pushing the film’s global gross to $764.3 million.
Young Washington rode into third place for the weekend with a flourish, blowing past industry projections and earning $20.8 million. That made it the weekend’s highest-earning film that wasn’t animated, and it’s the biggest live-action debut in the history of Angel Studios.
Oh, and if this just whetted your appetite for more George Washington, fear not: Director Jon Erwin announced that a sequel’s already in the works—a sequel that will chronicle events in 1776. I think I heard somewhere that that year holds some significance for Americans. I’m assuming the sequel will be called Middle-Aged Washington, but I can’t be sure.
The box-office news was not as good for Supergirl. After a disappointing debut, the film suffered an even more disastrous follow-up, losing nearly three-quarters of its weekend-over-weekend audience to collect just $9.6 million. In two weeks, Supergirl has earned $58.5 million, which is barely enough to pay off the film’s caterers. Will the Woman of Tomorrow see a yellow sun rise yet? We shall see.
Disclosure Day closes out the box office’s top five with $6 million, which pushes its overall domestic gross to $105.3 million.
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