Illumination’sMinions: The Rise of Grucontinues its monstrous success at the box office. Despite a crowded and competitive market this week with the likes of the continued success ofTop Gun: Maverickand the debutingNope, the popular animated film has come in at 4th place in its fifth week in theaters, with its 3-day North American weekend estimate of $10.880 million. This puts the film behindDC League of Super-Pets, the previously mentionedNope, andThor: Love and Thunderfor this weekend’s domestic box office. Interestingly, this brings its global box office total to $710.366 million.
The $10.880 million income comes from 3,579 North American theater showings. The Friday domestic earnings for this weekend came out to $3.370 million with Saturday’s domestic earnings coming out to be $4.170 million. The Sunday domestic estimate is expected to come out $3.340 million. The 3-day North American weekend estimate brings the cumulative earnings of the domestic box office since the film’s release to an impressive $320.411 million.
Moving on to the international markets, the film saw its greatest holdover week-to-week in Korea, with the animated film adding an additional $3.2 million in earnings this weekend and placing it at #2 at the market’s box office behind local openerHansan: Rising Dragon. This earning brings the cumulative earnings for the Korean market to $11.2 million, 9% ahead ofMinionsat the same point. UK & Ireland saw their cumulative earnings to a total of $40 million over this weekend, in line with the first film andDM3at the same point. Germany had another excellent hold, dropping just 15% this weekend to reach $23.4 million gross with the movie holding on to its #1 spot in the market. Japan’s third weekend since opening saw a 20% drop weekend-to-weekend adding $1.8 million and bringing its gross earnings to $15.6 million. The film ranked at #3 for the weekend behind the opening ofJurassic World Dominionand local filmKingdom 2.
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The fifth weekend for Mexico reached a total gross of $35.2M withMinions: The Rise of Gruholding #2 in the market, overtaking the first film’s cumulative earnings at the same point, having already surpassed the lifetime ofDM3last weekend. France holds strong in Weekend 4, reaching $17.9 million cumulative earnings, placing it at #2 in the market.Minionsremain at #2 in the market. In Argentina, the film is thebiggest film of 2022 in admissions (used due to hyper-inflation on currency) and added another $1.6 million this weekend reaching $19 million in cumulative earnings.Minionsremains #1 in the market. Finally, Brazil had another strong hold in Weekend 5, adding $1.5M to its cumulative earnings $18.1 million, performing in line with the firstMinionsat the same point.Minions: The Rise of Gruremains No.1 in the market.
This weekend’s income from both the domestic and international markets forMinions: The Rise of Grubrings its worldwide box office earnings to a total of $710.366 million since its release on July 1. This earning putsMinions: The Rise of Gruputs the film on track with the earnings of its predecessors’MinionsandDespicable Me 3at the same point in their theatrical runs.
Minions: The Rise of Gruis currently in theaters. Check out the trailer below:
