Nicolas Cage in Neon’s “Long Legs.”
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Animation continues to be the hero of the summer office thanks to Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2but neonof Long legs The film will close with no surprise, having grossed $22.6 million in ticket sales, the biggest opening for an independent horror film in the last decade.
From Illumination and Universal, DM4 Easily remained at the top of the country performance income The film grossed $44.7 million from 4,449 theaters during its second weekend, crossing the $200 million mark by Sunday, bringing its North American total to $211.1 million. Overseas, Gru and his mischievous Minions continue to rake in sales, earning $88 million from 78 markets for a total of $226.7 million overseas and $437.8 million worldwide.
Notable milestones include: Despicable Me/Minions The anime series has topped $5 billion in ticket sales worldwide, a feat never before achieved by an anime series (Illumination announced this earlier this week). Minions 3 It’s currently in production.
The big surprise of the weekend was writer-director Osgood Perkins’ better-than-expected performance. Long legsa serial killer thriller film Maika Monroe This tense FBI investigative drama starring Nicolas Cage will be screened in 2,510 cinemas. Tom QuinnNeon, an Oscar-winning professional production and distribution company, Parasites.
Among other records, this was Cage’s National Treasure: Book of Secrets The 2007 film is currently the highest-grossing R-rated film of 2024. It is also the only indie horror film in the past decade to gross over $20 million (though it was the only one to do so). Sinister A Focus Features/Universal film.
Neon also points out that going back 25 years, very few indie films have ever made it past the $20 million threshold for their debut, but many indie films, including Neon’s, only open in a few theaters rather than opening nationwide from the get-go. Long legs did.
The film made $10 million on Friday alone, including previews, and was not affected by its C+ CinemaScore, as a C rating is common in the horror genre. Fun fact: Over 70% of ticket buyers were between the ages of 18 and 34.
Record-breaking Inside Out 2 “Star Wars,” which may become the highest-grossing animated movie of all time, opened on Sunday with a worldwide gross of $1.35 billion. Pixar’s highest-grossing film of all time Before adjusting for inflation, it’s the third-highest-grossing animated film of all time, and the film makes Disney the first major studio to surpass $2 billion in worldwide ticket sales in 2024.
In North America, Inside Out 2 In its fifth weekend, the film ranked third at the box office with $20.8 million, bringing its domestic total to $572.6 million. Overseas, it earned an additional $50.2 million from 47 markets, bringing its international total to $777.5 million. The film has not yet been released in Japan, but it is expected to perform quite well.
Paramount’s Remaining A Quiet Place: Day 1 It continues to fascinate movie fans, Long legsThe prequel earned another $11.8 million from 3,378 theaters this weekend, bringing its domestic total to $116.2 million through Sunday.
Apple Original Movies‘ is a film directed by Greg Berlanti. Fly Me to the MoonRomantic comedy starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing TatumDistributed by Sony on behalf of Apple, the period drama earned a modest $10 million from 3,356 sites, placing it in fifth place at the box office, a figure that’s not surprising given the film’s popularity with an older demographic: More than half of ticket buyers were over 45, and of those, 32 percent were over 55.
This movie is Average ratingBut audiences were generous enough to give the older-targeted film an A- CinemaScore, and while reviews are more important to the older moviegoers Berlanti’s film relies on, Apple and Sony are confident the film will have a long shelf life. Ticket to Paradisegrossed $16.5 million domestically and topped a record $68 million. Where the crayfish singIt debuted domestically with $17.7 million and grossed a peak of $90 million.
Newly available at the Specialty Box Office are the following titles: A24of Sing, sing“The Great Passage” is expected to gross a solid $34,280 per theater average from four theaters in Los Angeles and New York. Directed by Greg Kweder, the film chronicles the arts program at the notorious Sing Sing prison.
July 14, 7:45 AM Updated with revised estimate.
This article was first published on July 13th at 10:16am.
