Get the latest gossip
‘Despicable Me 4’ Tops July 4 Holiday Box Office With Mighty $122.6 Million, ‘MaXXXine’ Opens to $6.7 Million
'Despicable Me 4' dominated the July 4 holiday box office, earning a massive $122.6 million, while A24's 'MaXXXine' opened to $6.7 million
The Utah-based Angel Studios scored an outsized hit with last summer’s “Sound of Freedom,” which was geared at Christian audiences and opened over the Fourth of July in 2023 before earning more than $250 million. The bulk of the film’s audience was comprised of men between the ages of 18 to 34 and “MaXXXine” was strongest in coastal cities like New York and Los Angeles, as well as in Austin, Texas where Alamo Drafthouse, a movie theater chain that caters to cinephiles, over-indexed. Sony’s “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” the latest Will Smith and Martin Lawrence exercise in quips, pyrotechnics and vehicular destruction, rounded out the top five.
Or read this on Variety