Post by belelmo27cien on Jul 10, 2015 8:56:55 GMT -5
Somehow I cannot really be excited about this movie -- mostly because I'm not an animated film fan -- but anyway, it opens great on Thursday night in US. It'll exceed Sandy's box office record, I'm not sure how much actually she's in the movie, I mean, her voice.
variety.com/2015/film/box-office/minions-box-office-thursday-night-1201537439/
Universal-Illumination Entertainment’s animated comedy “Minions” has opened impressively with $6.2 million at 2,985 U.S. locations in Thursday night preview shows starting at 6 p.m.
That’s 26% above the Thursday night take for 2013’s “Despicable Me 2,” which grossed $4.7 million at late night shows that began at 7 p.m.
“Minions” is expected to pull in at least $100 million in its opening weekend, making the “Despicable Me” spinoff the fourth film this year to debut above the $100 million mark — joining “Furious 7,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and “Jurassic World.”
The first “Despicable Me” opened with $56.3 million in 2010. “Despicable Me 2” opened with $83.5 million in 2013.
“Minions” has already grossed more than $141 million in less than three weeks in foreign markets. With a $74 million price tag, it’s going to be enormously profitable for Universal.
Minions was originally supposed to release on December 19, 2014, but was moved into summer 2015 for promotional reasons.
“Minions” will face its most stringent competition from a pair of box office heavyweights — Disney-Pixar’s fourth weekend of “Inside Out” and Universal’s fifth weekend of “Jurassic World” — and Paramount’s second weekend of “Terminator Genisys.” That trio of holdovers battled for supremacy over the Fourth of July weekend with “Inside Out” winning a narrow victory at $29.8 million.
variety.com/2015/film/box-office/minions-box-office-thursday-night-1201537439/
Universal-Illumination Entertainment’s animated comedy “Minions” has opened impressively with $6.2 million at 2,985 U.S. locations in Thursday night preview shows starting at 6 p.m.
That’s 26% above the Thursday night take for 2013’s “Despicable Me 2,” which grossed $4.7 million at late night shows that began at 7 p.m.
“Minions” is expected to pull in at least $100 million in its opening weekend, making the “Despicable Me” spinoff the fourth film this year to debut above the $100 million mark — joining “Furious 7,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and “Jurassic World.”
The first “Despicable Me” opened with $56.3 million in 2010. “Despicable Me 2” opened with $83.5 million in 2013.
“Minions” has already grossed more than $141 million in less than three weeks in foreign markets. With a $74 million price tag, it’s going to be enormously profitable for Universal.
Minions was originally supposed to release on December 19, 2014, but was moved into summer 2015 for promotional reasons.
“Minions” will face its most stringent competition from a pair of box office heavyweights — Disney-Pixar’s fourth weekend of “Inside Out” and Universal’s fifth weekend of “Jurassic World” — and Paramount’s second weekend of “Terminator Genisys.” That trio of holdovers battled for supremacy over the Fourth of July weekend with “Inside Out” winning a narrow victory at $29.8 million.