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

[narniadis]

Hmm?

$44-46M OD for Minions?

Shrek 3 only opened at $38M OD.

Different time of year...

[kayumanggi]

FRI for #Minions came in at huge $46.2M. Biggest toon opening day of all-time. Wknd on track for $115-120M.

— Gitesh Pandya (@giteshpandya)

July 11, 2015

MINIONS earned an estimated $46.2M on opening day Friday. #Minions

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

July 11, 2015

Edited July 11, 2015 by kayumanggi

[grim22]

46.171M official estimate

 

Scott Mendelson ‏@ScottMendelson  2m2 minutes ago

Box Office: MINIONS Goes Bananas With Record $46.171M Friday http://onforb.es/1M202ks  via @Fobes by @ScottMendelson #BoxOffice #Minions

[Mojoguy]

46.171M official estimate

 

Scott Mendelson ‏@ScottMendelson  2m2 minutes ago

Box Office: MINIONS Goes Bananas With Record $46.171M Friday http://onforb.es/1M202ks  via @Fobes by @ScottMendelson #BoxOffice #Minions

Not bad.

[JohnnyGossamer]

Record opening in play. Minions looking like $125M+.

[CJohn]

Blanks is on suicide watch. 

[MrFanaticGuy34]

$46M OD. Yes! It reached the highest animated OD record. 23rd biggest OD ever.

 

Now, which animated film will top this record now? I'm betting on Finding Dory to do it, next year.

Edited July 11, 2015 by MrFanaticGuy34

[narniadis]

Good number.... oh what am I saying it's and AWESOME number!

[JohnnyGossamer]

Surorisingly quiet here after such a studio just dropped stellar OD estimate on us. Universal couldn't have expected much better.

[SuperBatman]

Universal just keeps in ringing in the dough. 1st it was Furious 7 then it was Jurassic World and now it's time for Minions to get its money.

[Chaz]

Hmm, will it stay flat minus previews and hit $40 today? Huge.

[mahnamahna]

Original release only (about $340m). $380m (including re-release) isn't possible.

Umm...

4.9

6.8

5.2

16.9 ($283 million)

Weeks after

$13m - Ant Man doubles ($308 million)

$10.5m - Pixels as minor comp ($328 million)

$9m - no comp ($345 million)

$7m - Shaun opens small ($358 million)

$5m - same w Underdogs ($366 million)

$4m - no comp ($371 million)

$3m - no comp ($375 million)

$4m/$5m - Labor Day bump ($381 million)

$2.5m - drop ($384 million)

$1.75m - no comp ($386 million)

$390-393 million DOM finish

Is it a lock? No.

But with almost no real competition until HT2, IO should have 5-25% drops until Labor Day

[JohnnyGossamer]

I'm expecting Minions to take in just under $45M today. So... Gonna come down to the Sunday hold in seeing whether or not it breaks the record OW DOM for animated fare.

[pepsa]

This is more like it, now only James Bond and Star wars need to explode and i ll be a very happy man

[Hatebox]

So Minions did fine after all. Of course it did.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

I bet Saturday would be around $42-43M.

[Noctis]

$46.2m for Minions...Shrek The Third is finally going DOWN.

 

Though only by a few million and solely because of 3D. 

 

Amazing how it's still the number 1 in admissions after 8 years.

[mahnamahna]

Inside Out having a sub-50% drop against a $120-125 million opener that directly targets its demo is great. 40-42% would be phenomenal and further confirm my hunch that it'll have 5-25% drops until the week after Labor Day

Minions did phenomenal. $74 million budget and $75 million-$100 million for marketing.. great investment

JW held decent enough. Beating Avengers 1 is still locked, but Titanic is 50-50. Depends on how Ant-Man/Pixels affect it

MMXXL is going to have an insane multi due to the Wed opening lol. Terminator and Ted 2 continue to crash

July 2015 looks red-hot the rest of the way. The first two weeks of August will be busy due to Pixels/Vacation/MI5/Ant-Man/Trainwreck/Minions holding over, along with F4/Compton opening up

[Avatree]

mahna where do you think IO's total will end up?

[kayumanggi]

SELF/LESS earned an estimated $1.958M on opening day Friday. #SelfLess

— BoxOffice (@BoxOffice)

July 11, 2015