The sequel animated movie from the Despicable Me series makes its debut at the top of the North American box office this weekend with the best July 4th debut ever.

The Minions sequel movie takes $107 Million over the American holiday which also means it instantly becomes the 8th top movie of 2022.

The mega smash hit sequel movie starring Tom Cruise continues to perform well above anyones expectation as it remains at number 3 this weekend with $25 Million on its 6th weekend of release, a tiny 13% drop.

the movie has now taken a eye watering $564 Million at the North American box office and is by far the top movie of 2022, it is also the 12th top movie of all time on North America as it gets ready to break the top 10.

After making its debut at the top last weekend the Elvis Presley bio-pic from Baz Luhrmann jumps over Top Gun: Maverick to spend its second weekend at number 3.

The movie takes $18.4 Million on its second weekend, a resonable 14% drop over last weekend giving the movie a total gross of $66 Million.

The threequel dino movie drops to number 4 this weekend on its 4th week of release with $16 Million, a 40% drop over last weekend.

the movie has now taken $332 Million at the North American box office making it the 4th top movie of 2022.

The movie is tracking behind the last 2 movies in this series of Jurassic movies, with Jurassic World having taken over half a billion by this point in its run, but Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was only a tiny but ahead with $363 Million.

Falling to number 4 is the horror movie from director Scott Derrickson which made its debut at number 4 last weekend.

A $12 Million second weekend, 48% down, takes the movies total gross to $47 Million.

This weeks top 10 US Box Office films

1. Minions: The Rise of Gru - $107,000,000
2. Top Gun: Maverick - $25,830,000
3. Elvis - $18,450,000
4. Jurassic World: Dominion - $16,040,000
5. The Black Phone - $12,230,000
6. Lightyear - $6,372,000
7. Mr. Malcolms List - $826,387
8. Everything Everywhere All At Once - $551,974
9. Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness - $391,000
10. Jug Jugg Jeeyo - $308,000

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After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.

6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.

8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.