Minions & Monsters managed to take the top spot at the box office over the weekend, but it massively underperformed compared to previous entries in the franchise.
Minions & Monsters took in just $37 million over the three-day weekend and $62 million total, as it opened on Wednesday last weekend. Both of the previous two Minions movies opened well over $100 million in their opening weekends, so this is a massive decline. What’s odd is that this is by far the best-reviewed entry in the series, with a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes and critics praising its humor and homages to classic Hollywood. The movie got an A- Cinemascore, so we’ll have to see if it has legs or drops off this coming weekend. Worldwide, the movie has made $160.5 million. The World Cup and Fourth of July celebrations are also suspected of contributing to Minions & Monsters’ underperformance.
Toy Story 5 dropped to second with another $31 million, bringing it to $366.3 million domestically and $765.4 million worldwide, making it the third-biggest movie of the year behind The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and Michael.
Young Washington debuted in third place with $19.3 million, one of the best debuts for Angel Studios. It’s slightly behind David, which opened to $22 million, and about on par with Sound of Freedom.  The movie got an A Cinemascore, so word of mouth should be incredibly strong.
Supergirl and Disclosure Day rounded out the top 5.  Supergirl had a massive drop for its second weekend, dropping 77% and making another $8.6 million domestically. It has $99.4 million worldwide so far, and estimates put its total gross at around $130 million. It needs at least $300 million, probably more, to break even in the theatrical window, so this is going to be a massive loss for Warner Bros.
Further down the list, Jackass: Best and Last also had a steep drop, falling 68% from last week to 8th place with $2.7 million, with a domestic total of $14.7 million. Perhaps this might have worked better as a Paramount+ exclusive, since there doesn’t seem to be much interest in it theatrically.
The Invite expanded into 28 theaters and jumped up into the top 10 at 10th place with $800,708. It has $1.3 million domestically so far.
