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Despicable Me 4

2024 • PG • 1h 34m • Animation, Adventure, Comedy • Universal Pictures

Return to Villainy.

🍅 55% 71%

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3.2

6.2

CS A

Box office summary

Opening Weekend

$75.0M

3-day opening

Domestic Total

$361.0M

Final

Worldwide Total

$986.7M

Global total

Budget$100M

Domestic Legs4.8x

2024 Rank#5

Compare with other movies

Cast & Crew

Full Renaud filmography

Chris Renaud Director

Steve Carell Starring

Kristen Wiig Starring

Will Ferrell Starring

Miranda Cosgrove

Miranda Cosgrove Starring

Pierre Coffin Starring

ScreenplayMike White, Ken Daurio Produced byChris Meledandri, Brett Hoffman CinematographyN/A MusicHeitor Pereira Prod. DesignYarrow Cheney SeriesDespicable Me

Predicted final domestic

How the model works

$309M–$331M

$287M $320M $353M

$361.0M so far

The prediction model updated after a -42% second-weekend drop. The wider range of $287M–$353M accounts for 90% of films. Learn more about how the prediction model works

$225M

Baseline

Animation Animated Sequel — 3.00 baseline opening

0%

CinemaScore

A: Animation avg is A

-2%

Audience

Below Avg — RT 71%, LB 3.20, IMDB 6.2

+5%

Seasonality

Summer Peak

+20%

Release Day

Wednesday (pre-weekend)

+4%

2nd Weekend

-42% drop

+13%

Genre

Animation Sequel legs

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Jul 5-7 1 $75.0M — 4,428 $16,940 $122.6M

2 Jul 12-14 1 $43.6M −41.9% 4,449 $9,800 $210.1M

3 Jul 19-21 2 $24.4M −44.0% 4,112 $5,943 $260.1M

4 Jul 26-28 3 $14.6M −40.3% 3,610 $4,041 $291.4M

5 Aug 2-4 4 $11.5M −21.5% 3,376 $3,393 $314.2M

6 Aug 9-11 5 $8.0M −30.3% 3,009 $2,653 $330.1M

7 Aug 16-18 6 $6.3M −21.6% 2,788 $2,245 $340.7M

8 Aug 23-25 9 $4.2M −32.1% 2,591 $1,640 $348.1M

9 Aug 30-1 9 $4.1M −2.9% 2,698 $1,529 $354.2M

10 Sep 6-8 11 $1.8M −55.3% 1,919 $962 $357.9M

11 Sep 13-15 15 $1.1M −37.9% 1,516 $756 $359.5M

12 Sep 20-22 16 $656.2K −42.8% 796 $824 $360.4M

13 Sep 27-29 22 $277.5K −57.7% 417 $665 $360.8M

14 Oct 4-6 25 $106.2K −61.7% 196 $542 $361.0M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Wed Jul 3 #1 $27.2M — $27.2M 4,030 $6,750 1

Thu Jul 4 #1 $20.4M −25% $47.6M 4,030 $5,062 2

Fri Jul 5 #1 $27.1M +33% $74.7M 4,428 $6,109 3

Sat Jul 6 #1 $26.8M −1% $101.5M 4,428 $6,060 4

Sun Jul 7 #1 $21.1M −21% $122.6M 4,428 $4,771 5

Mon Jul 8 #1 $9.3M −56% $131.9M 4,428 $2,095 6

Tue Jul 9 #1 $15.1M +63% $147.0M 4,428 $3,410 7

Wed Jul 10 #1 $10.3M −32% −62% $157.3M 4,428 $2,325 8

Thu Jul 11 #1 $9.2M −11% −55% $166.5M 4,428 $2,071 9

Fri Jul 12 #1 $13.7M +49% −49% $180.1M 4,449 $3,078 10

Sat Jul 13 #1 $17.6M +28% −35% $197.7M 4,449 $3,949 11

Sun Jul 14 #1 $12.3M −30% −42% $210.1M 4,449 $2,772 12

Mon Jul 15 #1 $5.8M −53% −38% $215.8M 4,449 $1,293 13

Tue Jul 16 #1 $9.2M +60% −39% $225.0M 4,449 $2,065 14

Wed Jul 17 #1 $5.7M −38% −45% $230.6M 4,449 $1,271 15

Thu Jul 18 #1 $5.0M −11% −45% $235.7M 4,449 $1,127 16

Fri Jul 19 #2 $7.4M +47% −46% $243.1M 4,112 $1,798 17

Sat Jul 20 #2 $9.7M +31% −45% $252.8M 4,112 $2,358 18

Sun Jul 21 #2 $7.3M −24% −40% $260.1M 4,112 $1,787 19

Mon Jul 22 #2 $3.5M −52% −39% $263.6M 4,112 $853 20

Tue Jul 23 #2 $5.6M +59% −39% $269.2M 4,112 $1,356 21

Wed Jul 24 #2 $4.1M −26% −27% $273.3M 4,112 $1,006 22

Thu Jul 25 #2 $3.5M −16% −31% $276.8M 4,112 $840 23

Fri Jul 26 #3 $4.4M +27% −41% $281.2M 3,610 $1,218 24

Sat Jul 27 #3 $5.6M +28% −42% $286.8M 3,610 $1,560 25

Sun Jul 28 #3 $4.6M −19% −38% $291.4M 3,610 $1,263 26

Mon Jul 29 #3 $2.6M −43% −26% $294.0M 3,610 $724 27

Tue Jul 30 #3 $3.6M +36% −36% $297.5M 3,610 $988 28

Wed Jul 31 #3 $2.8M −22% −33% $300.3M 3,610 $772 29

Thu Aug 1 #3 $2.4M −14% −31% $302.7M 137 $17,473 30

Fri Aug 2 #4 $3.4M +42% −23% $306.1M 3,376 $1,007 31

Sat Aug 3 #4 $4.5M +32% −20% $310.6M 3,376 $1,327 32

Sun Aug 4 #4 $3.6M −20% −22% $314.2M 3,376 $1,058 33

Mon Aug 5 #3 $2.0M −45% −24% $316.1M 3,376 $585 34

Tue Aug 6 #3 $2.5M +29% −29% $318.7M 3,376 $753 35

Wed Aug 7 #3 $1.8M −28% −34% $320.5M 3,376 $541 36

Thu Aug 8 #3 $1.6M −12% −33% $322.1M 3,376 $479 37

Fri Aug 9 #5 $2.6M +61% −24% $324.7M 3,009 $864 38

Sat Aug 10 #4 $3.1M +20% −31% $327.8M 3,009 $1,034 39

Sun Aug 11 #4 $2.3M −27% −36% $330.1M 3,009 $755 40

Mon Aug 12 #4 $1.0M −54% −48% $331.2M 3,009 $344 41

Tue Aug 13 #4 $1.4M +38% −44% $332.6M 3,009 $476 42

Wed Aug 14 #4 $938.0K −35% −49% $333.5M 3,009 $312 43

Thu Aug 15 #5 $880.4K −6% −46% $334.4M 3,009 $293 44

Fri Aug 16 #6 $1.6M +83% −38% $336.0M 2,788 $577 45

Sat Aug 17 #6 $2.6M +63% −16% $338.6M 2,788 $943 46

Sun Aug 18 #6 $2.0M −23% −11% $340.7M 2,788 $725 47

Mon Aug 19 #6 $815.5K −60% −21% $341.5M 2,788 $293 48

Tue Aug 20 #6 $1.1M +31% −25% $342.5M 2,788 $384 49

Wed Aug 21 #6 $733.2K −32% −22% $343.3M 2,788 $263 50

Thu Aug 22 #6 $598.9K −18% −32% $343.9M 2,788 $215 51

Fri Aug 23 #9 $1.1M +77% −34% $344.9M 2,591 $409 52

Sat Aug 24 #8 $1.9M +83% −26% $346.9M 2,591 $750 53

Sun Aug 25 #8 $1.2M −36% −38% $348.1M 2,591 $481 54

Mon Aug 26 #8 $447.6K −64% −45% $348.6M 2,591 $173 55

Tue Aug 27 #8 $632.8K +41% −41% $349.2M 2,591 $244 56

Wed Aug 28 #8 $457.6K −28% −38% $349.7M 2,591 $177 57

Thu Aug 29 #8 $362.8K −21% −39% $350.0M 2,591 $140 58

Fri Aug 30 #9 $879.7K +142% −17% $350.9M 2,698 $326 59

Sat Aug 31 #8 $1.7M +88% −15% $352.6M 2,698 $613 60

Sun Sep 1 #8 $1.6M −4% +28% $354.2M 2,698 $590 61

Mon Sep 2 #7 $1.4M −13% +208% $355.5M 2,698 $511 62

Tue Sep 3 #10 $279.4K −80% −56% $355.8M 2,698 $104 63

Wed Sep 4 #11 $157.5K −44% −66% $356.0M 2,698 $58 64

Thu Sep 5 #10 $98.2K −38% −73% $356.1M 2,698 $36 65

Fri Sep 6 #11 $294.3K +200% −67% $356.4M 1,919 $153 66

Sat Sep 7 #8 $949.3K +223% −43% $357.3M 1,919 $495 67

Sun Sep 8 #7 $602.6K −37% −62% $357.9M 1,919 $314 68

Mon Sep 9 #12 $85.6K −86% −94% $358.0M 1,919 $45 69

Tue Sep 10 #12 $131.2K +53% −53% $358.1M 1,919 $68 70

Wed Sep 11 #12 $105.0K −20% −33% $358.2M 1,919 $55 71

Thu Sep 12 #11 $72.7K −31% −26% $358.3M 1,919 $38 72

Fri Sep 13 #15 $205.6K +183% −30% $358.5M 1,516 $136 73

Sat Sep 14 #11 $560.6K +173% −41% $359.1M 1,516 $370 74

Sun Sep 15 #11 $380.1K −32% −37% $359.5M 1,516 $251 75

Mon Sep 16 #13 $63.8K −83% −26% $359.5M 1,516 $42 76

Tue Sep 17 #13 $87.7K +38% −33% $359.6M 1,516 $58 77

Wed Sep 18 #14 $62.3K −29% −41% $359.7M 1,516 $41 78

Thu Sep 19 #13 $45.9K −26% −37% $359.7M 1,516 $30 79

Fri Sep 20 #16 $126.1K +175% −39% $359.8M 796 $158 80

Sat Sep 21 #14 $316.4K +151% −44% $360.2M 796 $398 81

Sun Sep 22 #14 $213.7K −32% −44% $360.4M 796 $268 82

Mon Sep 23 #15 $38.6K −82% −39% $360.4M 796 $48 83

Tue Sep 24 #16 $48.5K +26% −45% $360.5M 796 $61 84

Wed Sep 25 #16 $35.5K −27% −43% $360.5M 796 $45 85

Thu Sep 26 #18 $23.5K −34% −49% $360.5M 796 $30 86

Fri Sep 27 #22 $65.2K +177% −48% $360.6M 417 $156 87

Sat Sep 28 #19 $136.2K +109% −57% $360.7M 417 $327 88

Sun Sep 29 #19 $76.1K −44% −64% $360.8M 417 $182 89

Mon Sep 30 #19 $21.7K −72% −44% $360.8M 417 $52 90

Tue Oct 1 #22 $17.4K −20% −64% $360.8M 417 $42 91

Wed Oct 2 #21 $13.1K −25% −63% $360.9M 417 $31 92

Thu Oct 3 #21 $13.4K +2% −43% $360.9M 417 $32 93

Fri Oct 4 #25 $24.5K +82% −62% $360.9M 196 $125 94

Sat Oct 5 #23 $51.2K +109% −62% $360.9M 196 $261 95

Sun Oct 6 #23 $30.5K −40% −60% $361.0M 196 $156 96

Mon Oct 7 #22 $7.9K −74% −63% $361.0M 196 $41 97

Tue Oct 8 #24 $10.1K +28% −42% $361.0M 196 $52 98

Wed Oct 9 #22 $7.9K −22% −40% $361.0M 196 $40 99

Thu Oct 10 #22 $8.0K +1% −40% $361.0M 196 $41 100

Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record

Cumulative total$358.1M

Jul 3Jul 20Aug 7Aug 24Sep 10

Weekend grossWk 10 · $1.8M

$75.0M

$43.6M

$24.4M

$14.6M

$11.5M

$8.0M

$6.3M

$4.2M

$4.1M

$1.8M

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 4,449 → 1,919 −56.9%

4,030 open1,919 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −55.3%

−41.9%

W1→2

−44.0%

W2→3

−40.3%

W3→4

−21.5%

W4→5

−30.3%

W5→6

−21.6%

W6→7

−32.1%

W7→8

−2.9%

W8→9

−55.3%

W9→10

Steepest −55.3%Best hold −2.9%

Run milestones

$300M in 29 days

$100M

Day 4

Jul 6

$200M

Day 12

Jul 14

$300M

Day 29

Jul 31

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

Records held

All records →

#8 Biggest July 4th openingsAll-time $75.0M #14 Best multipliersAll-time 4.81x #19 Biggest animated filmsAll-time $361.0M

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