The fourth “Despicable Me” movie — remember there have been two “Minions” spin-offs to this franchise as well — proves that Universal’s biggest animated franchise is a long way from running out of gas.

A $27 million opening day (Wed) and big Thursday rolling into an epic “Despicable Me 4”
Friday-Sunday seems to be adding up to a $120 million five-day “opening weekend” for the only movie “Despicable” enough to knock Pixar’s billion dollar baby, “Inside Out 2,” from the top of the box office.

@TheNumbers is reporting that “”Despicable” will end up earning $75 million over the three days of the actual weekend.

“Inside Out 2” has crossed the $500 million mark in North America and cleared some $154 million on its opening weekend, which wasn’t five days long. Just to give Gru & Crew a little perspective. “Inside Out 2” will finish second over these five days with a $45-50 million take. The three day weekend total will be $30 million. As of Sunday, it will have been in theaters 19 days. Those are “Barbie” numbers, kids.

“A Quiet Place: Day One” will tally another $31 million and change over the July 4 5-day weekend. Yes, we’re getting more movies in that franchise. And yes, it made $21 million Friday to Sunday.

Ti West’s latest Mia Goth horror gorefest “MaXXXine” is opening OK…ish. $8 million hasn’t been great horror opening 3-day weekend take for decades, but the disappearance of the horror audience has been a pronounced feature of the box office this year.

“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” will do another $8 million. I’ll bet Netflix is wishing it had rolled out its “Beverly Hills Cop” sequel “Axel F” into theaters for two weeks, because audiences are flocking to comfort food franchises this summer. “Bad Boys” will probably fall just short of $200 million at the box office by the time it loses most of its screens.

Kevin Coster’s Western epic “Horizon: An American Saga, Part 1” will add another $6 million (3 daty weekend) in counter-programming cash, which tells us it won’t break even/earn back its $50 million (rumored) budget before heading to streaming.

“Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot” proves that the evangelical “faith-based film” audience isn’t all that keen’ on feel good stories about a Black church doing good deeds — $3.5 million over three days.

“Kalki 2898 AD” is in the top ten for its second and last time, managing another $2 million.

“The Bikeriders” enjoys one last weekend before disappearing ($1.35 million, it’ll finish its run at about $25).

And “Kinds of Kindness” is opening wider and still only managing $863k or so.