“Despicable Me 3” is dominating the Independence Day holiday weekend box office with a projected $85 million for the Friday-Sunday period, early estimates showed Friday.
Illumination-Universal’s threequel should wind up its opening day Friday with about $30 million at 4,529 locations, including $4.
1 million from Thursday night previews. Should the estimate hold, it will be the sixth-best domestic launch of the year after “Beauty and the Beast,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” “Wonder Woman,” “Fate of the Furious,” and “Logan.”Sony’s “Baby Driver” is motoring to a respectable second-place finish with around $18 million at 3,226 sites for Friday-Sunday, to go along with $9 million in its first two days — well above studio forecasts. New Line’s Will Ferrell-Amy Poehler comedy “The House” is performing in line with the studio’s muted expectations and should finish with about $13 million at 3,314 venues.
Warner Bros.’ fifth weekend of “Wonder Woman” appears likely to edge the second weekend of Paramount’s “Transformers: The Last Knight” for third place with about $16 million. The blockbuster has already topped $330 million in its first four weeks.
“Despicable Me 3” had been expected to provide plenty of fireworks for the Fourth of July holiday weekend amidst forecasts of $90 million to $100 million with the studio estimating a slightly lower take of around $85 million.
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