Weekend Estimates: Minions - 115.2M; JW - 18.1M; Inside Out - 17.1M; Gallows - 10M; Self/Less - 5.4M; MMXXL - 9.6M; T5 - 13.7M

[tonytr87]

Minions represents everything wrong with some animated movies. Please drop harder than any animated movie yet. 

[Blankments]

Id love to see Minions make 400 million. Then all the Pixar loonies will call it a cash grab as they hold a picture of John Lasseter and Mother Theresa side by side.

Lasseter's probably the worst of Pixar's core directors, so try again

 

I'll still call it a cashgrab

 

 

Shaun the Sheep is pretty awesome. Tele Jr'll probably see it.

Someone on this board says that movie has absolutely no dialogue, which gets me incredibly interested in it, despite never liking the source material

 

 

Yep. Give people they want to see and if its not a Pixar film it's automatically a cash grab. You guys f****** make me laugh sometimes seriously you're so predictable. Pics are really does donate all of their money to charity don't they.

DM3 wouldn't be a cashgrab, it'd be a franchise

 

Giving popular side-characters their own movies always feels like a cashgrab. Puss in Boots, Penguins of Madagascar, even Cars 2... all would be cashgrabs in my mind

 

 

I hope it out grosses Jurassic World and American Sniper. 

SPAGHETTII NOOO NOT YOU TOOO

[redfirebird2008]

Oh my bad, Minions. I'm on my phone and just skimming through. I think I quoted the wrong person, lol

 

lmao...you just blue-balled the shit out of the Pixar fans here.

[grey ghost]

This has to be one of the most if not THE most successful spin off not to mention one of the biggest openings for an CG animated movie.

There's no spinning this. This is another big success for Universal.

[PDC1987]

shit... those are some crazy low numbers for IO and JW... yikes indeed.

Crumbling. Flops.

[grey ghost]

I guess some people expected this to destroy IO domestic.

Easier said than done.

[MovieMan89]

This has to be one of the most if not THE most successful spin off not to mention one of the biggest openings for an CG animated movie.

There's no spinning this. This is another big success for Universal.

Yeah, at the least it should be just the fourth animated film to open to 100m. That's obviously still impressive.

[Blankments]

And they were designed by corporate mandate, not to mention that the plot was sketched out in 5 minutes on the back of a cocktail napkin.

So basically, the Minions are Raymond Carver

[Mojoguy]

Which film? I assume IO but I'm not sure.

 

Oh my bad, Minions. I'm on my phone and just skimming through. I think I quoted the wrong person, lol

Pixar fans are disappointed...

[tupek]

37 + 37 + 28

102m.

[grey ghost]

There are cash grabs then there are movie that are a given.

Minions was a given. A studio would have to be stupid to avoid a Minions spin off.

[CJohn]

 

Lasseter's probably the worst of Pixar's core directors, so try again

 

I'll still call it a cashgrab

 

 

Someone on this board says that movie has absolutely no dialogue, which gets me incredibly interested in it, despite never liking the source material

 

 

DM3 wouldn't be a cashgrab, it'd be a franchise

 

Giving popular side-characters their own movies always feels like a cashgrab. Puss in Boots, Penguins of Madagascar, even Cars 2... all would be cashgrabs in my mind

 

 

SPAGHETTII NOOO NOT YOU TOOO

 

Your hate against Minions is even funnier than Tele. Your tears will taste great as well.

[shayhiri]

Such a harsh drop for IO and JW.

I hope they both recover some the rest of the weekend, especially IO.

 

Hahaha, that's what I (and my minions) call massacre!!

 

PS: No, they won't recover.

[Blankments]

Inside Out did wonders for Pixar's image. Before it released, people were accusing PIXAR of having sunk to the level of cash-grabbing. It reached its peak when Toy Story 4 was announced (and BTW, I've heard rumblings that TS4 won't really be a true TS4, but that it will be some kind of story taking place in the Toy Story universe but supposedly not centering around the main characters of the original trilogy, not involving humans at all. So basically, that it will be more a spin-off than a sequel?)

Boy, what one great movie can do to "rehabilitate" a studio whose reputation was "declining".

Toy Story 4 is a cashgrab though. Doesn't mean I won't see it for nostalgia and praying it's not bad.

 

Dory and Incredibles 2 are the only sequels that don't feel like cashgrabs for them (including MU and Cars 2 in their recent ones)

 

 

I don't know, I feel like Frozen backlash has already gotten to a lot of people.

We had a dance party at camp earlier this week and when I played Let It Go as a joke, every kid started freaking out at me in a negative sense. I definitely think Frozen backlash has hit hardcore; every kid I know can't stand the music anymore

 

Speaking of which, Frozen 2 is also a cashgrab

 

 

Yep. No artistic integrity in Minions. Took them two weeks to make it.

Sure looks like it from the trailers.

 

 

This will die on the West Coast. We're too health-conscious for Twinkies.

More than health-conscious, pretty sure these Twinkies are radioactive. And demonic.

[kayumanggi]

This has to be one of the most if not THE most successful spin off not to mention one of the biggest openings for an CG animated movie.

There's no spinning this. This is another big success for Universal.

 

It's because they are actually the draw of the DM films. Imagine a movie featuring just Gru or the pathetic Scarlet.

[CJohn]

Your meltdown is amazing Blanks. Amazing. 

[Blankments]

Oh, and I really would be shocked if Trevorrow is directing 9

[The Dark Alfred]

Minions will have average run it's a below par movie. It's killing it OS and won't drop much from DM2, but it needed to open higher to challenge IO, fortunately it's unlikely now.

[xSabrinax]

I'm in shock with JW and IO numbers. I never though minions would hit them so hard.

[Chewy]

Finding Dory not a cashgrab? looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool