Box Office – July 5-7, 2024: DESPICABLE ME 4, INSIDE OUT 2, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE, & More

Box Office July 5-7, 2024

The theatrical movie box office results for July 5, 2024 through July 7, 2024 have been released.

The Box Office

Despicable Me 4 premiered in the Number One spot at the United States box office over the weekend with $75 Million for $122.6 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $229.5 Million.

Inside Out 2 was Second at the United States box office over the weekend with $30 Million (a 48% drop from last weekend) for $533.8 Million so far. Worldwide, the film has made $1.21 Billion.

A Quiet Place: Day One was Third at the United States box office over the weekend with $21 Million (a 60% drop from last weekend). Worldwide, the film has made $214.5 Million.

MaXXXine premiered Fourth Place at the United States box office over the weekend with $6.7 Million.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die was Fifth at the United States box office over the weekend with $6.5 Million (a 37% drop from last weekend). Worldwide, the film has made $360.1 Million.

These films: Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1, Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, Kalki 2898-AD, The Bikeriders, and Kinds of Kindness rounded out the top ten respectively.

Movies That Opened This Weekend

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

Despicable Me 4 is a 2024 American animated comedy film produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination, and distributed by Universal. It serves as the sequel to Despicable Me 3 (2017), the fourth main installment, and the sixth overall installment in the Despicable Me franchise. The film was directed by Chris Renaud, co-directed by Patrick Delage (in his feature directorial debut), produced by Chris Meledandri and Brett Hoffman, and written by Mike White and Ken Daurio. It stars the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Pierre Coffin, Joey King, Miranda Cosgrove, Steve Coogan, Sofía Vergara, Stephen Colbert, Renaud, Madison Polan, Dana Gaier, Chloe Fineman, and Will Ferrell. In the film, Gru (Carell) and his family are forced to relocate to a safe house to hide from Maxime Le Mal (Ferrell), an old rival of Gru who seeks revenge with his girlfriend Valentina (Vergara). At the same time, one of the new neighbors, Poppy Prescott (King) is intent on returning Gru to villainy.

MaXXXine is a 2024 American slasher film written, directed, produced and edited by Ti West. It is the third installment in West’s X film series and a direct sequel to X (2022). The film stars Mia Goth, who reprises her role as Maxine Minx, alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito, and Kevin Bacon. In the film, Maxine sets out for fame and success in 1980s Hollywood while being targeted by a mysterious killer.

Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (also simply known as Possum Trot) is a 2024 American drama film directed by Joshua Weigel, and co-written by Rebekah Weigel. Actress and activist Letitia Wright serves as executive producer.

Next Week’s Films

Next week sees the release of Fly Me to the Moon, Lumina, The Inheritance, and a plethora of other films. Find my predictions on this releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Despicable Me 4 will be the Number One film at the box office for a second week in a row.

The History of Box Office (and Profit Measurement)

“A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket.

By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a metonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show, receives. The term is also used to refer to a ticket office at an arena or a stadium.

Box office business can be measured in the terms of the number of tickets sold or the amount of money raised by ticket sales (revenue). The projection and analysis of these earnings is greatly important for the creative industries and often a source of interest for fans. This is predominant in the Hollywood movie industry.

To determine if a movie made a profit, it is not correct to directly compare the box office gross with the production budget, because the movie theater keeps nearly half of the gross on average. The split varies from movie to movie, and the percentage for the distributor is generally higher in early weeks.

Usually the distributor gets a percentage of the revenue after first deducting a “house allowance” or “house nut”. It is also common that the distributor gets either a percentage of the gross revenue, or a higher percentage of the revenue after deducting the nut, whichever is larger. The distributor’s share of the box office gross is often referred to as the “distributor rentals”, especially for box office reporting of older films.”

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