Again, given the strike, its likely the availability of a title just wasnt there.
But its clear theres no ceiling to the marketplace.
Top-grossing venue in the U.S. is Harkins Estrella Falls, with $188Kso far.
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Fandango launched a custom Minions seat map for booking tickets.
Xfinity and Sky also had a significant TV, digital and print co-branded campaign in their markets.
DM4dominated in sports advertising include French Open co-branded spots, placements during the NFL draft, finales and premieres.
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NBA Finals were leveraged to announced tickets going on sale.
There were also ads during WNBA, WWE Raw and Copa America.
Its not often that an animated movie has a car partner.
Sally Hansen had a line of nail polish shades and stickers.
Waze had a Minions integration in-app in English, LATAM Spanish, and Portuguese speaking countries.
McDonalds also had a global TV campaign.
Rotten Tomatoes audiences gave it 81%, while critics settled on 75% certified fresh.
PostTrack audiences gave it 76% positive and 59% definite recommend.
MaXXXineattracted 52% men with 23% over 35.
Friday was $1.1M, Saturday another $1.1M for a 3-day of$3.2Mand 4-day of$6.79M.
Underscoring a faith-based turnout are the demos of 44% over 55 and 70% women.
Updates for Sunday are indicated in bold and include Saturday and Sunday broken out.
Well update the chart more, later this AM as official numbers roll in:
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It skews younger thanInside Out 2,so dont expect the late evening draws.
Illumination continues to have bragging rights with the franchise withDM4becoming theanimationstudios 12th title to open at No.
The series holds the most No.
1 debuts of any animated franchise, ahead ofShrek.
The Friday-Monday start forMinions: Rise of Gruwas $123M.
Running cume forDM4is $47.6M.
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Current total stands at$503.6M.
The movie tells the true story of Donna and Reverend Martin and their church in East Texas.
Twenty-two families adopted 77 children from the local foster system, igniting a movement for vulnerable children everywhere.
A24s Ti West-directed, Mia Goth-starring threequelMaXXXineopens today.
The movie did not hold previews last night; instead, it did Wednesday previews.
While 5-day forecasts are always hard to project this far off, everything becomes clear by Friday.
Overall its the fifth A for theMinions/DespicableMe franchise.
Look for the Pixar sequel to cross thehalf-billionmark today stateside in its 21st day.
3-day looks like$6M, 5-day like$8.7M.
Total by Sunday is$176.6M.
WEDNESDAY PM:Surprise, surprise: Minions are the lords of Independence Day.
The Friday-Sunday take forDespicable Me 4stands at $70M.
The audience RT score for the fourthquel from director Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage is 89%.
Despicable Me 4also is going in 52 offshore markets this weekend, including in Mexico, Spain and Brazil.
TheDespicable MeandMinionsuniverse counts a running series total of $4.67 billion worldwide.
The highest-grossing title in the franchise is 2015sMinionswith $1.1 billion.
