Despicable Me 3

After another sluggish peak summer weekend Lionsgate and Millennium Films’ The Hitman’s Bodyguard shot to the top of the domestic chart with a $21 million opening. This highly explosive comedy stars Samuel L.

This weekend was all about Spiderman: Homecoming with Sony and Marvel’s series reboot swinging to a $257 million global debut. SHC is the first collaboration between the two studio,a venture that was initiated by Sony's ex-vice-chair Amy Pascal after the two  pictures starring Andrew Garfield fell short of the original Tobey Maguire trilogy.

In a heated domestic race this weekend newcomer Despicable Me 3 proved to be totally magnetic, while Transformers managed to turn itself into a major disappointment. In Universal’s fourth Despicable film, after the summer 2015 spinoff Minions, Steve Carell returns as the loveable anti-hero Felonius Gru and also voices his twin brother, Dru.

After a slight hiccup with Pirates earlier this month, Disney is back at the head of the pack with Pixar produced Cars 3. Lightning McQueen, the series’ anthropomorphic racecar voiced by Owen Wilson, rocketed into first place on the domestic chart with $53.