The Fourth of July weekend ended with a bang on several fronts. For the first time in the pandemic era, all top 10 movies in the North American box office chart made more than $1 million.

In another first after over 15 years, one studio claimed the first three slots in the domestic race. Universal Studios has F9: The Fast Saga, The Boss Baby: Family Business, and The Forever Purge to thank for the bragging rights. This trio of films collectively earned $54 million.

While F9 continued to reign on its second week, The Boss Baby 2, voiced by Alec Baldwin, James Marsden and Amy Sedaris, helped Universal Studios gain that box office honor with $17.36 million in ticket sales.

The fifth and said to be the final installment of The Purge franchise, The Forever Purge, starring Ana de la Reguera, Josh Lucas and Will Patton, cleaned up with $12.75 million.

Of course, F9, which earned $24 million, continued to set records. It zoomed past Godzilla vs. Kong as the biggest Hollywood hit release since the COVID-19 health crisis began.

Director Justin Lin’s re-teaming with Vin Diesel is also the fastest film to hit the $100 million benchmark domestically during the pandemic. The movie achieved that feat last Friday.

Placing fourth, after Universal’s top three finishers, was Paramount Pictures’ A Quiet Place Part II which has legs with another haul of $4.22 million. Lionsgate’s The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard took the fifth place with $3 million.

The rest of the top 10 box office finishers were Disney’s Cruella ($2.6 million), Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway ($2.25 million), Warner Brothers’ The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It ($1.29 million), In the Heights (also from WB) ($1.28 million) and A24’s newcomer, the well-reviewed Zola with Taylour Paige, Riley Keough and Nicholas Braun ($1.23 million).

Internationally, F9 was also ahead in the box office finish line with $23.8 million. By Monday, the high-octane action flick is expected to earn $500 million globally. That’s another feat for F9 – the first Hollywood movie to cross that benchmark since 2019.

Settling for second place in the global chart was China’s 1921,  made to commemorate the 100^th anniversary of the Communist Party, which garnered a global take of $45.7 million (compared to F9’s global $47.8 million revenue).

Described as a propaganda movie, 1921 is directed by Huang Jianxin and Zheng Dasheng, with a big cast that includes Ni Ni, Huang Xuan, Wang Renjun, Liu Haoran, Chen Kun, Li Chen, Zhang Songwen, Liu Shishi and Zhou Ye.

In the SVOD ratings game, the season 5B premiere of Lucifer, creator Tom Kapinos’ drama narrating how Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis) abandons Hell and settles in where else, LA – the City of Angeles – is off to a fiery start. The Netflix series again topped the streaming chart for the week of May 31 to June 6.

Only Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Amazon Prime Video’s Panic broke Netflix’s dominance of Nielsen’s top 10 streaming ranking (in order): LuciferSweet ToothThe Kominsky MethodThe Handmaid’s TaleRagnarokJurassic World Camp CretaceousWho Killed Sara?PanicOrange is the New BlackThe Great British Baking Show.