Despicable Me 3 Runs Away With Box Office Weekend Win

Universal Studios Family movie, Despicable Me 3 opened with a $75 million weekend gross almost making back its entire $80 million budget. It easily crushed the weekend competition that included two new films, “Baby Driver”Action movie with Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx and Ansel Elgort, and the comedy “The House” starring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler.

The first Despicable Me movie opened with $56.3 million and the 2013 Despicable Me 2 opened with an impressive $83.5 million.

Transformers the $217 million film fell into third place pulling their two week opening to $102 million. Wonder Women at week five has grossed more than $350 million and continue to stay strong in the theaters.

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View Index: By Year | By Weekend

TW	LW	Title (click to view)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Budget*	Week #
1	N	Despicable Me 3	Uni.	$75,410,275	–	4,529	–	$16,651	$75,410,275	$80	1
2	N	Baby Driver	Sony	$21,000,000	–	3,226	–	$6,510	$30,029,105	$34	1
3	1	Transformers: The Last Knight	Par.	$17,000,000	-62.0%	4,132	+63	$4,114	$102,103,351	$217	2
4	2	Wonder Woman	WB	$16,100,000	-35.4%	3,404	-529	$4,730	$346,644,475	$149	5
5	3	Cars 3	BV	$9,524,000	-60.4%	3,576	-680	$2,663	$120,714,099	–	3
6	N	The House	WB (NL)	$9,000,000	–	3,134	–	$2,872	$9,000,000	–	1
7	4	47 Meters Down	ENTMP	$4,682,000	-33.9%	2,250	-221	$2,081	$32,591,454	–	3
8	22	The Beguiled (2017)	Focus	$3,259,740	+1,321.7%	674	+670	$4,836	$3,579,188	–	2
9	5	The Mummy (2017)	Uni.	$2,785,260	-54.0%	1,760	-1,220	$1,583	$74,502,100	$125	4
10	7	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	BV	$2,411,000	-55.3%	1,674	-779	$1,440	$165,466,587	$230	6

What’s coming out next? Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: Homecoming on July 7

Photo: Credit Universal Studios

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