\n\tTheater owners are preparing for more Minion mayhem. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cMinions & Monsters\u201d will lead the box office over the July 4 weekend, with the seventh installment in Universal and Illumination\u2019s \u201cDespicable Me\u201d franchise aiming for $80 million from 4,000 North American theaters during the five-day holiday frame. Exhibitors and rival studios are mixed on where \u201cMinions\u201d will end up, with projections ranging from $60 million to $90 million.<\/p>\n
\n\tBox office watchers anticipate that attendance across the movie theater business might be slower than the typical holiday weekend since July 4th lands on Saturday. Instead of going to cinemas during the busiest day of the week for moviegoing, Americans will likely be attending barbecues and setting off fireworks to celebrate the country\u2019s 250th birthday. Around the globe, World Cup matches could be another distraction from the big screen.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn any case, \u201cMinions & Monsters\u201d is tracking a softer start in Universal\u2019s kid-friendly series, which has enjoyed lucrative commercial success around Independence Day. The comedic property, which revolves around mischievous yellow critters and their reformed-villain leader, has only grown in popularity since 2010\u2019s \u201cDespicable Me\u201d opened to $56 million. By comparison, the two most recent entries, 2022\u2019s spinoff sequel \u201cMinions: The Rise of Gru\u201d and 2024\u2019s \u201cDespicable Me 4,\u201d launched to $123 million and $122 million, respectively, over the same five-day holiday stretch. (Universal always gets a jump on the holiday weekend with \u201cDespicable Me\u201d installments by putting them in theaters on Wednesday.) Both of those films became juggernauts, with the second \u201cMinions\u201d earning $940 million globally and the fourth \u201cDespicable Me\u201d amassing $972 million by the end of their runs. \u201cMinions: The Rise of Gru,\u201d which holds the record for the biggest opening over Fourth of July weekend, benefitted from the #GentleMinions craze, a viral TikTok trend<\/a> that encouraged teenage moviegoers to see the film while dressed in suits.<\/p>\n \n\tAnother new release, the patriotic historical drama \u201cYoung Washington,\u201d is targeting a strong $15 million to $20 million start. Angel Studios is backing the film, which tells the story of George Washington before the American Revolutionary War and his presidency. <\/p>\n \n\tElsewhere at the domestic box office, Disney\u2019s \u201cToy Story 5<\/a>\u201d should bring in $35 million to $45 million in its third weekend of release, while \u201cSupergirl<\/a>\u201d is bracing for a 60% decline in ticket sales after debuting to just $37.1 million. That would put revenues at roughly $15 million for the weekend. \u201cToy Story 5\u201d has been the latest win for animated sequels with $300 million domestically and $585 million worldwide after 12 days in theaters. Meanwhile \u201cSupergirl\u201d underscores the challenges facing comic-book adaptations, particularly those centered on lesser-known heroes, with $37 million in North America and $62 million globally to date. Given its substantial $170 million budget, the Warner Bros. and DC Studios film is projected to lose at least $100 million to $120 million <\/a>in its theatrical run.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMinions & Monsters\u201d touched down last weekend at the international box office with $10 million from 10 markets. The film will expand to another 59 territories over the weekend. Prior \u201cDespicable Me\u201d adventures and spinoffs have demonstrated notable box office staying power, so \u201cMinions & Monsters\u201d could stick around throughout the summer, even if it starts slower than its predecessors. The film was produced for $85 million, making it slightly less expensive than prior franchise entries, which carried $100 million price tags.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMinions & Monsters\u201d is directed by Pierre Coffin, who helmed the first three \u201cDespicable Me\u201d films and first \u201cMinions\u201d installment. He also provides the voice of the Minions. The story takes place in 1920, way before the events of 2015\u2019s \u201cMinions,\u201d and follows the babbling agents of chaos as they become the toast of Hollywood. But when sound comes along, the Minions are unable to sustain careers in showbiz because of the sad fact that the rest of the world can\u2019t understand their native tongue, Minionese. Variety\u2019s film critic Guy Lodge called<\/a> \u201cMinions & Monsters\u201d a \u201cclear peak for the series,\u201d noting that it\u2019s \u201csmarter, wilder and funnier\u201d [\u2026] \u201cthan the seventh entry in any animated franchise has a right to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Theater owners are preparing for more Minion mayhem. \u201cMinions & Monsters\u201d will lead the box office over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,138398,270,90127,65723],"class_list":["post-526420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-minions-monsters","tag-movies","tag-supergirl","tag-toy-story-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}