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'Despicable Me 4' stays comfortably atop N.American box office

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Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:498px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1721007093422Despicable-Me-4.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Gru’s life is turned upside down with the arrival of his and Lucy’s new baby as well as the escape of Maxime Le Mal, Gru’s high school nemesis and award-winning supervillain.  <em>Handout</em></span></span></span></div><p>LOS ANGELES - Animated comedy &quot;Despicable Me 4&quot; held on to the top spot in the North American box office this weekend with an impressive $44.7 million take, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations estimated Sunday.</p><p>That brought total ticket sales for Universal Pictures&#x27; latest Minions-universe release to $211.1 million in the United States and Canada since its release last weekend. Will Ferrell joins the voice cast this time as aptly named supervillain Maxime Le Mal.</p><p>Overall, the Despicable Me/Minions franchise has crossed the $5 billion mark in global ticket sales, the Hollywood Reporter said.</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/woEhGm7hNWs?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>Meanwhile, &quot;Longlegs&quot; from indie studio Neon rode excellent reviews and a potent viral marketing campaign to an unexpectedly strong second-place opening.</p><p>The horror mystery took in $22.6 million for the Friday-through-Sunday period, a &quot;phenomenal&quot; opening for the genre and Neon&#x27;s best-ever result, Variety said.</p><p>Critics compared the marketing campaign for the film to the highly successful launch of 1999 cult hit &quot;The Blair Witch Project.&quot; Neon crafted a 1990s-style website and offered fans a phone number to call to hear a creepy message from Nicolas Cage, who stars in the tale of an FBI agent tracking a serial killer.</p><p>Last weekend&#x27;s number two film, Disney and Pixar&#x27;s &quot;Inside Out 2,&quot; slipped a spot, with ticket sales of $20.7 million. The coming-of-age film has now taken in $572.6 million domestically and an additional $777 million globally.</p><p>In fourth, also down one spot, was Paramount&#x27;s apocalyptic horror film &quot;A Quiet Place: Day One,&quot; at $11.8 million. This third instalment in the series stars Lupita Nyong&#x27;o as a seriously ill woman in a New York invaded by extraterrestrial creatures with frighteningly keen hearing.</p><p>And in fifth was new Sony rom-com &quot;Fly Me to the Moon.&quot; Its $10 million take was considered disappointing for a big-budget film starring the likes of Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson -- who play a NASA official and a marketing guru during the Apollo 11 mission -- but Apple TV+ expects a boost when it streams the film.</p><p>Rounding out the top 10 were:</p><p>&quot;Bad Boys: Ride or Die&quot; ($4.4 million)</p><p>&quot;Horizon: An American Saga -- Chapter One&quot; ($2.4 million)</p><p>&quot;MaXXXine&quot; ($2.1 million)</p><p>&quot;Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot&quot; ($1.3 million)</p><p>&quot;The Lion King,&quot; a 1994 reissue ($1.1 million)</p><div><strong>bbk/bys</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>Animated comedy "Despicable Me 4" held on to the top spot in the North American box office this weekend with an impressive $44.7 million take, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations estimated Sunday.</p>

Animated comedy "Despicable Me 4" held on to the top spot in the North American box office this weekend with an impressive $44.7 million take, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations estimated Sunday.