UPDATE, writethru: Coming in slightly above the estimates we reported on Saturday, Universal/Illumination’s Minions: The Rise Of Gru has boogied to an $87.2M weekend at the international box office.

Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

Minions: Rise of Gru, as expected, dominated the July 4th weekend box office. In doing so, it set a new record for a July 4th opening, as it scored $125.1 million. After some felt that Lightyear's ...

This past week and weekend includes milestones aplenty for such films as Thor: Love And Thunder, Minions: The Rise Of Gru, Jurassic World Dominion, and the seemingly unstoppable Top Gun ...

MONDAY AM: Writethru after Sunday AM post — As Illumination/Universal‘s Minions: The Rise of Gru clinches an Independence Day 4-day opening record of $125.1M, the ...

Holdovers — especially Top Gun: Maverick — are also contributing to the boon. Heading into the weekend, tracking suggested that Minions 2 would open in the $70 million to $80 million range for ...

In like-for-likes at today’s exchange rates, the new openers are 23% below Minions and 13% below Despicable Me 3. Including Australia, results in Week 2 are tracking 13% below Minions and just 3 ...