{"id":119917,"date":"2024-07-06T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T01:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=119917"},"modified":"2024-07-06T17:22:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T00:22:30","slug":"box-office-battle-despicable-me-4-beats-inside-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/box-office-battle-despicable-me-4-beats-inside-out-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Box office battle: Despicable Me 4 beats Inside Out 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Despicable Me 4 is smashing the box office opening with an impressive $120 over the 4th of July weekend<\/strong>. The Illumination film is the latest installment from the Despicable Me and Minions franchise, and it has delivered a three-day weekend haul of $72.4 million, dominating the box office.<\/p>\n<p>The Despicable Me series has become a <strong>4th of July staple<\/strong> at this point. The original film debuted in 2010 with $56 million, while 2013\u2019s Despicable Me 2 opened with a five-day debut of $143 million. The third installment in 2017 also had a strong performance, matching this year\u2019s $120 million five-day holiday start.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiseFallNickBck\/status\/1809354066251989011\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Despicable Me 2 took home 20.4 Million at the Domestic Box Office on July 4th per Variety, tracking to earn 120 million in its opening week<\/p>\n<p>Inside Out 2 also crossed 500 Million at the domestic box office! Big wins for animation!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ekw0QTpXDk\">pic.twitter.com\/Ekw0QTpXDk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TRAFON(s Backup Account) (@RiseFallNickBck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiseFallNickBck\/status\/1809354066251989011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With this bombastic premiere, <strong>Inside Out 2<\/strong> slipped to No. 2 in its fourth weekend, pulling in an estimated $31 million. Its domestic gross is estimated at $535 million, making it the third-best showing for an animated film in North America. Elsewhere, MaXXXine made a modest $7-$8 million debut. Meanwhile, Sound of Hope: The Son of Possum failed to replicate the success of last year&#8217;s sleeper hit Sound of Freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despicable Me 4 is smashing the box office opening with an impressive $120 over the 4th of July weekend. The Illumination film is the latest installment from the Despicable Me and Minions franchise, and it has delivered a three-day weekend haul of $72.4 million, dominating the box office. The Despicable Me series has become a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":119919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1399],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-119917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-movies"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119917"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=119917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}