‘Minions & Monsters’ debuts to franchise low opening weekend

Hello! Welcome to The Box Office Report for the weekend of July 3-5, 2026.

1. Minions & Monsters

Weekend gross: $36.4M
Total domestic gross: $61.4M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA

After ignoring the Despicable Me/Minions franchise for fifteen years, I finally saw one of the films in theaters this weekend. It turns out a ton of the rest of you went in the opposite direction, with Minions & Monsters opening with the lowest domestic debut in franchise history.

With several of the Despicable Me/Minions movies opening over a July 4 weekend, it gets a bit tricky to exactly compare their first frames, but anyway you slice it, Minions & Monsters was a huge drop-off for the franchise.

Despicable Me 4 also had a five-day July 4 weekend, grossing $122.6 million over that period with $75 million of that total coming over the traditional three-day weekend. Minions & Monsters could only muster up $61.4 million over its entire five-day debut window.

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2. Toy Story 5

Weekend gross: $31M
Total domestic gross: $366.3M
Last weekend: 1st
Percent drop: 56

Toy Story 5 was roughly six million dollars away from holding onto the No. 1 spot over its third weekend in theaters. The Pixar film added another $31 million to its domestic total over the three-day weekend, moving past Inside Out ($356.4 million) to secure the No. 6 spot on Pixar’s all-time domestic rankings.

The fifth Toy Story movie now sets its sights on becoming the sixth Pixar film to cross the $400 million mark.

3. Young Washington

Weekend gross: $20.8M
Total domestic gross: $20.8M
Last weekend: New release
Percent drop: NA

I can’t remember if it was before Disclosure Day or before Supergirl, but when the trailer for Young Washington played and the moment the title card revealed who the film was about, people in the theater laughed.

I guess Young Washington is now laughing at the doubters, with the Angel Studios biopic grossing $20.8 million over, appropriately, the July 4 weekend. Did this movie stick to the fact that Washington would save children, but not the British children?

4. Supergirl

Weekend gross: $9.6M
Total domestic gross: $58.5M
Last weekend: 2nd
Percent drop: 74

Superhero movies suffering huge weekend-to-weekend drops has become pretty common in the post-Avengers: Endgame period. It used to be jarring to see a drop in the high-60s or the 70s, but Supergirl falling 74 percent since its opening weekend feels normal for the genre.

Of course, if you’re going to drop 74 percent, you’d prefer it comes after a massive opening weekend and you’ve already banked a bunch of box office bucks. Falling 74 percent after a disappointing $37.1 million debut is, well, even more disappointing for Supergirl.

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5. Disclosure Day

Weekend gross: $6M
Total domestic gross: $105.3M
Last weekend: 5th
Percent drop: 27

Disclosure Day, on the other hand, saw its strongest weekend-to-weekend performance. The Steven Spielberg film previously dropped 60 percent between its first and second weekends and 53 percent going into last weekend. Did a bunch of boomers decide to see Disclosure Day on their vacation days?

Beyond the Top Five

• Obsession: It took eight weekends for Obsession to fall out of the top five. Curry Barker’s runaway hit grossed $5.3 million this weekend, finishing less than a million dollars behind Disclosure Day. The horror film now sits at $245.3 million in North America.

Box office numbers via The Numbers and Box Office Mojo based on Sunday estimates.

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