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Minions OS Thread | 1 BILLION WW CROSSED!! | 6m weekend | $811.4m OS total

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Pretty good hold, both DOM and OS. Still has quite a bit left in the tank.

DOM 15M

Japan 12-15M

Italy 12-15M

Rest Holdovers 30M

Other oprners 5M

So it will finish with 700m+ OS and 1.03B+ WW excluding China.

Am thinking Italy can end up a bit higher than 12m - maybe 15-17m

Agree on the rest

How much do you think it will make in China?

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Am thinking Italy can end up a bit higher than 12m - maybe 15-17m

Agree on the rest

How much do you think it will make in China?

$100M at least..... but not more than $150M. Thinking $125M (800m Yuan). Should be enough for 1.15B finish.
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Deadline - if someone can update the numbers in the title of the thread that would be great

 

MINIONS
Universal and Illumination’s Minions minted a much better than anticipated $18.5M (up from the est. $15M) in 61 territories this weekend, bringing the henchmen’s overseas score to $648.3M. Kevin, Stuart and Bob passed $900M globally last weekend and now have a total of $961.2M before moving on to Italy (August 27), Turkey (September 4), China (September 13) and Greece (September 24) — and surely passing $1B in the process. Minions, from Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin, is the 5th highest-grossing film ever internationally and will passToy Story 3’s $650M this week to move up to No. 4. The top three animated films ahead of it will then be Frozen ($880M), Ice Age: Continental Drift ($718M) and Ice Age: Dawn Of Dinosaurs ($690M). Elsewhere, Minions has now passed Finding Nemo’s $936.8M to become the 5th highest-grossing animated film of all time worldwide. Above it are currently Frozen ($1.28B), Toy Story 3 ($1.064B), The Lion King ($987.5M) and Despicable Me 2 ($975.5M).

In the current frame, Slovenia opened No. 1 with $290K (up from $218K) at 25 dates (up from 10 dates) including previews. Japan’s 3rd frame placed it No. 3 as Hollywood movies dominate the top of the chart. It grossed another $3.3M at 328 dates for a 16-day total of $25.3M — bigger than DM2. It is the top non-Disney/Pixar animated film of all time in the market.

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MinaTakla Box Office Gold

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Great and long analysis by Forbes - 4 hours ago:

 

'Minions' Headed To $1 Billion And Top 10 All-Time Box Office

Most box office attention lately has been focused on the continued record-shattering success of Jurassic World, the strength of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from week to week, the face-plant performance of Fantastic Four, and the big opening performance of Straight Outta Compton. But while everyone’s been distracted by those admittedly interesting and worthwhile discussions, one other film is breaking records and climbing the all-time box office ladder to comparatively (and oddly) muted media attention.

Minions, the third entry in the Despicable Me franchise, had another big week in which it took at least $35 million in global receipts. The cartoon comedy has now passed $960 million at the worldwide box office. It’s managed this feat without yet having finished its rollout in Europe, and it won’t open in China until next month. At this rate, the film will fly past $1 billion and looks like it might break into the top ten highest grossing films of all time.

The first Despicable Me opened to $56 million in 2010, finishing with an impressive $543 million global tally off a modest budget of only $69 million. Reviews were raves, audiences adored it, and a sequel was inevitable.

 

Despicable Me 2 opened three years later to a massive $143 million over the Fourth of July holiday. Granted, it was over a five-day extended period, but the FSS three-day total still reached $83 million and set it on course for a final gross of $970 million off of a $76 million budget. And the studio’s cut of that domestic opening weekend covered the entire production budget and nearly half of the marketing expenses, without even considering the overseas opening box office numbers, to put it into additional financial perspective.

A third Despicable Me was announced, with a release date scheduled for June 2017. But separate from the direct sequels, Universal and Illumination knew that a significant part of the series’ popularity stems from lead evil genius Gru’s tiny henchmen, who captured the hearts of kids and parents everywhere. A spinoff was planned, and the public’s eager anticipation made it clear the funny little overall-wearing banana-heads would score big.

Minions opened to $115 million domestic on a regular three-day weekend, and its current North American gross is $313 million and counting (it should easily add another $10 million or more to that tally). That opening figure is good enough to cover the production budget of $74 million (an actual decline from the previous film’s budget) plus about $20 million of the marketing costs (the studio gets at least 80+% of the opening weekend domestic ticket sales, with their share declining each subsequent week of release, to put it in simple terms).

But overseas is where these little yellow critters have really struck gold. The $648 million box office receipts from international markets means Minions is destined to top $775+ million foreign on top of at least $325 million domestic.

A final worldwide box office of $1.1 billion seems certain, good enough to ensure at least the #13 position on the list of all-time highest grossing movies. But if Minions plays strong enough in China and continues to have good holds elsewhere, then it has a very strong shot at supplanting Transformers: Age of Extinction for the #10 all-time spot.

For the year, Minions is fourth at the global box office, behind only Jurassic World,Furious 7, and Avengers: Age of Ultron. That will change once Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters on Christmas and proves the ability to top $1 billion is insignificant next to the power of a Star Wars sequel. But even then, Minions will still have bragging rights to being in the top-five of the year and beaten only by the likes of Marvel, Dinosaurs, Vin Diesel, and Jedi Knights. There’s a chance that Spectre might also pass Minions, but if so then just add “and James Bond” to the list of how much it takes to beat the little guys.

It doesn’t look possible for Minions to pass Frozen as the top animated film of all time, but it will definitely become the second-highest grossing animated film in history. Which on the one hand isn’t surprising, given the popularity of the series so far and the second entry’s $970 million gross two years ago. On the other hand, Minions got mixed reviews and ended up by far the worst-reviewed film in the franchise. Still, audiences gave it an A Cinemascore — matching the first two films — so whatever complaints critics have, it didn’t carry over to mainstream viewers.

While Minions has gotten its share of press previously, it’s interesting that amid so much other box office news and film coverage the film has lately been mostly off the radar of entertainment coverage despite how things are shaping up for it. Once it officially tops $1 billion, and if it does break into the top ten all-time grossers, then expect renewed spotlight on the not-so-evil schemers.

 

 

PS: My country-by-country projections for this week are coming soon. 

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I've just contacted the Forbes writer on Twitter and also informed him of Minions all-time records in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Russia and more - and he retweeted me. 

Thanks to this forum and its amazing people & their updates am getting more knowledgable and we're adding insights to reporters too!

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Insane fake number.

 

But yes, it's doing great, (Admissions are impressive for this country)

 

This movie and Inside Out are slaying our box office and they have no enemies til sept 25 when Hotel Transylvania 2 will be released.

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New OS total by ScreenDaily - probably by Wednesday:

 

Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s Minionsstands at $658.5m via Universal Pictures International, while Jurassic World has reached $974.9m andTrainwreck an early $1m.

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New OS total by ScreenDaily - probably by Wednesday:

 

Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s Minionsstands at $658.5m via Universal Pictures International, while Jurassic World has reached $974.9m andTrainwreck an early $1m.

http://www.screendaily.com/box-office/rogue-nation-crosses-250m-intl/5091901.article?blocktitle=LATEST-INTERNATIONAL-BOX-OFFICE-NEWS&contentID=40071

Only $25M for JW to join the overseas BILLION DOLLAR CLUB. Which will happen around the same time Minions hits $1Billion WW. I really, really want to be at Universal's party when this happens. :D

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