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'Minions' rule N. American theaters on July 4th weekend

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="From the biggest global animated franchise in history comes the origin story of how the world’s greatest supervillain first met his iconic Minions. Handout" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/overseas/07/04/minions.jpg"/><figcaption>From the biggest global animated franchise in history comes the origin story of how the world’s greatest supervillain first met his iconic Minions. <em>Handout</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>LOS ANGELES, United States - &quot;Minions: The Rise of Gru,&quot; the latest installment in the animated &quot;Despicable Me&quot; franchise, crushed the competition at the North American box office in its opening weekend, with an expected $127.9 million take over the four-day July 4th holiday.</p><p>Universal&#x27;s &quot;Minions&quot; far outpaced the number two film, &quot;Top Gun: Maverick,&quot; which came in at $32.5 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Sunday.</p><p>&quot;This is a sensational opening,&quot; said analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.</p><p>&quot;Family animation, more than any other genre, has struggled to find its footing during the pandemic,&quot; he said. &quot;This weekend, &#x27;Minions&#x27; is breaking through and big animation is back in business.&quot;</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/06/15/22/minions-return-with-hopes-of-more-box-office-gold">&#x27;Minions&#x27; return with hopes of more box office gold</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/06/29/22/movie-review-latest-minions-film-still-delivers">Movie review: Latest Minions film still delivers</a></li></ul><p>According to Variety, if confirmed, the box office haul would make the fifth chapter in the &quot;Despicable Me&quot; series about reformed super-villain Gru and his yellow Minions the highest film opening over Independence Day, besting 2011&#x27;s &quot;Transformers: Dark of the Moon.&quot;</p><p>Rolling along in second place is Paramount&#x27;s &quot;Top Gun: Maverick,&quot; the crowd-pleasing sequel to the original 1986 film that once again features Tom Cruise as cocky US Navy test pilot Pete &quot;Maverick&quot; Mitchell.</p><p>The film has raked in more than $1.1 billion worldwide.</p><p>Baz Luhrmann&#x27;s music biopic &quot;Elvis&quot; -- starring relative newcomer Austin Butler as the King alongside Tom Hanks as his exploitative manager, Colonel Tom Parker -- dropped to third place in its second weekend of release, at $23.7 million.</p><p>Fourth place went to &quot;Jurassic World Dominion,&quot; Universal&#x27;s sixth installment in the &quot;Jurassic Park&quot; franchise, at $19.2 million.</p><p>The latest dinosaur frightfest stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard alongside franchise originals Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum.</p><p>Rounding out the top five was horror film &quot;The Black Phone&quot; starring Ethan Hawke as a serial killer, which earned $14.6 million in its second weekend in theaters.</p><div><strong>Completing the top 10 were: </strong></div><p>&quot;Lightyear&quot; ($8.1 million)</p><p>&quot;Mr Malcolm&#x27;s List&quot; ($1 million)</p><p>&quot;Everything Everywhere All At Once&quot; ($673,000)</p><p>&quot;Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness&quot; (482,000)</p><p>&quot;Marcel the Shell with Shoes On&quot; ($307,750)</p><div><strong>bur-sst/mlm</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2mtezt89AHE?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

'Minions: The Rise of Gru' crushed the competition at the North American box office in its opening weekend, with an expected $127.9 million take.