{"id":11401,"date":"2026-07-06T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=11401"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:35:20","slug":"minions-monsters-is-top-banana-at-the-box-office-despite-franchise-low-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/minions-monsters-is-top-banana-at-the-box-office-despite-franchise-low-opening-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Minions & Monsters Is Top Banana At The Box Office Despite Franchise-Low Opening Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello, dear readers. Or, rather, “Bello! Papaya Dua Lipa gelato big bosses!” At long last, Pierre Coffin’s Minions & Monsters<\/em> \u2014 surely the biggest one-eyed monster featuring Universal blockbuster releasing this July \u2014 is here, marking the staggering seventh overall outing for everybody’s favourite outsized-tic-tac-looking, narna obsessed, evil-worshipping little guys. But despite being a hit with critics and<\/em> landing as top banana at the box office in its opening weekend, the Minions’ Classic Hollywood caper and its $159.8 million global haul isn’t quite<\/em> the summer success story Illumination’s top brass would’ve been hoping for.<\/p>\n

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Per Variety<\/em>‘s reporting, Coffin’s latest entry in the Despicable Me<\/em> Cinematic Universe (or DMCU, as nobody has ever called it), marks a franchise-lowest opening weekend for the series, having taken just $61 million stateside since previews started last Wednesday. Across the actual 4th July weekend itself, Minions & Monsters<\/em> actually took a mere $36 million, which is $20 million less than the first Despicable Me<\/em>‘s first frame haul and way off the pace of Minions: The Rise Of Gru<\/em> and Despicable Me 4<\/em>, which bowed to $123 million and $122 million respectively when they launched. It’s not all doom and gloom though, as not only does Illumination’s animated monster movie have that incredibly positive critical and word-of-mouth response swinging in its favour (and it really is<\/em> very good, even for the Minion-agnostic), but also the Minions’ adventures have traditionally tended to demonstrate real staying power at the box office \u2014 so a Hot Minion Summer is still very much on.<\/p>\n

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Minions & Monster<\/em>‘s underperformance follows a nervy couple of weeks at the global box office following the flop of DC Studios’ Supergirl<\/em>, which has sadly suffered a damning 74% drop-off in ticket sales in just its second week. Sure, Toy Story 5<\/em> has done as expected and continued to ride like the wind in its third weekend, cruising past the $750 million box-office milestone with considerable ease. But still, all eyes will now be on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Destin Daniel Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/em> to see if the big guns have the firepower to bring the masses out of the next heatwave and into the multiplex. We have a sneaking suspicion they may do just fine….<\/p>\n

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Hello, dear readers. Or, rather, “Bello! Papaya Dua Lipa gelato big bosses!” At long last, Pierre Coffin’s Minions & Monsters \u2014 surely the biggest one-eyed monster featuring Universal blockbuster releasing this July \u2014 is here, marking the staggering seventh overall outing for everybody’s favourite outsized-tic-tac-looking, narna obsessed, evil-worshipping little guys. But despite being a hit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11403,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions\/11403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}