Although attendance at movie theaters is still not quite what it was before the epidemic, the Independence Day holidays were quite festive for the box office. The $70 million Fast & Furious 9 (F9) earned last weekend added $24 million over the “standard” three days and the studio’s projected $32.7 million over four days, bringing the total for Fast & Furious 9 to $125. $8 million in North America. Taking the top spot, F9 was still down 66% from last weekend’s three-day period, when it grossed a pandemic-record $70.04 million.
The Boss Baby: Family Business and The Forever Purge – debuted with good numbers for their debut. Runner-up Milkman 2 brought in $17.36 million including Sunday, and the studio is projecting $23.07 million including Monday, from 3,644 screens, while third-place finisher Doomsday Forever collected 12, $75 million including Sunday and projected to collect $15.86 million from 3,051 screens including Monday.
Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II slipped to fourth place in its sixth weekend of release with a three-day gross of $4.22 million and a studio estimate of $5.58 million including Monday, bringing the total collections in North America amounted to a remarkable $145.79 million. Fifth place went to Lionsgate’s The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, which has collected nearly $3 million in three days and is projected to collect $3.9 million through Monday, bringing its total to $32.28 million. dollars by the end of the third long weekend.
There were no special sensations abroad. Opening this weekend in five new countries, including Spain and Singapore, Fast and Furious 9 grossed $23.8 million in 50 countries, bringing its total outside of North America to $374.4 million and a worldwide total of $491 .1 million dollars through Sunday. The studio predicts that the action film will cross the $500 million mark on Monday, making it the first film to reach that mark since 2019.
Peter Rabbit 2 collected about $9.2 million in 37 countries through Sunday, bringing its international total to $92.1 million. The film’s upcoming key releases include Spain (July 16), Brazil (August 26) and South Korea (September 29). Cruella grossed about $9 million in 43 countries over the three-day period, bringing its overseas cume to $127.8 million and its worldwide cume to $204.4 million. A Quiet Place 2 grossed $6.3 million in 50 countries, bringing its overseas cume to $122.5 million and a global tally of $266.93 million.