Warner Bros.’ Elvis - Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic - also danced its way to a major win when opening to a better than expected $51 million over the June 24-26 weekend, thanks to older moviegoers (nearly 30 percent of the opening weekend audience was over the age of 55).įamilies have been another challenged demo during the pandemic, but that narrative is changing in a dramatic way with the debut of Illumination and Universal’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, which opened to a record-shattering $129 million (or more, once final tallies are in) over the long July Fourth weekend to secure one of the top starts of all time for an animated film, pandemic or no pandemic. Also, both titles achieved the feat without China, where fewer and fewer Hollywood tentpoles are being released.Īmong the movies fueling the rally, Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, released in early May, has crossed $950 million worldwide, while June’s Jurassic World Dominion stomped past $800 million globally over the July Fourth holiday weekend. The Top Gun sequel is significant because it attracted all audiences, not just superhero-obsessed fanboys. The only other title to cross the $1 billion milestone in the pandemic era was December 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home (it rests at nearly $1.9 billion). The boom was led by Paramount and Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick, which has transformed into an unstoppable hit, grossing north of $1.11 billion globally since its Memorial Day release and still going strong a month later. “Privately, there is a lot of concern about an upcoming lack of product.”Īdds another Hollywood executive: “We are still in a pandemic recovery mode and not back to pre-pandemic grosses and attendance, but the box office results this summer are significantly better than we expected. “Publicly, there is a lot of celebration about the box office recovery,” one top studio executive tells THR.

Still, June gloom is lingering for some box office observers. And figuratively, if the month lands just a few pennies short of the $1 billion milestone, it’s no less impressive,” box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian of Comscore tells The Hollywood Reporter. In all, June was up a staggering 141 percent from June 2021’s $409.2 million, but down 11.6 percent from June 2019’s $1.114 billion. Box Office: 'The Invitation' Leads Horrifyingly Slow Weekend With $7M

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