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[Eric the Fall Guy]

 

[MrPink]

excuse me, what the fuck

[Maggie]

huge

[grim22]

3 minutes ago, Eric the Minion said:

 

[Chaz]

Holy

[BruiseCruise]

125m 4 day?

[YM!]

Holy fucking shit, this is doing 100m OW!

[Eric the Fall Guy]

Imma be honest here, like obviously Top Gun 2 is the story of the summer and the most incredible performance...but Minions 2 is not that far behind, and you could make a solid argument that it's the crazier opener. The last couple movies had bad reception and most animated franchises similar to this like Ice Age get some big diminishing returns. So how is this going leaps and bounds ahead of DM3 and debuting only slightly behind the first Minions? It can't just be Lightyear bombing. Is it just because of the Minions name? I don't get it.

[Borobudur]

Is this include EA? I don't remember any tracking suggest a preview number to be this high. 

[WrathOfHan]

[Chaz]

I forgot this was playing at 2:00 p.m. everywhere yesterday. Maybe not so shocking?

[Eric the Fall Guy]

1 minute ago, Borobudur said:

Is this include EA? I don't remember any tracking suggest a preview number to be this high. 

There was no Early Access.

[grim22]

1 minute ago, Eric the Minion said:

. So how is this going leaps and bounds ahead of DM3 and debuting only slightly behind the first Minions? It can't just be Lightyear bombing. Is it just because of the Minions name? I don't get it.

 

No lesbians kissing in the movie and no Chris Evans who is box office poison.

[BadOlCatSylvester]

Shoutout to all the gigachads and 20-something TikTok shitposters rolling up to this movie in expensive suits. You saved the animation industry and proved that Lightyear was a fluke.

[efialtes76]

2pm...😂

 

Edited July 1, 2022 by efialtes76

[Godzilla]

I knew this movie was going to be big. People wanna see the minions after the misery of the pandemic. 

[YM!]

4 minutes ago, Eric the Minion said:

Imma be honest here, like obviously Top Gun 2 is the story of the summer and the most incredible performance...but Minions 2 is not that far behind, and you could make a solid argument that it's the crazier opener. The last couple movies had bad reception and most animated franchises similar to this like Ice Age get some big diminishing returns. So how is this going leaps and bounds ahead of DM3 and debuting only slightly behind the first Minions? It can't just be Lightyear bombing. Is it just because of the Minions name? I don't get it.

Lack of big family films exploding since Sonic 2 helped it, Comcast puts in the effort for marketing and it helped that no streaming service to dilute its impact like Lightyear did (Man, Chapek really fucked up there).

 

I think this shows theatrical animation is definitely alive, but it needs to be far away from a streaming window or more likely a big streamer. I mean Bad Guys legged it to almost 100M with a 70 day window and I think if it opened earlier, it’d do 125M minimum. Sonic 2 also exploded. I also think the five year wait helped increase demand rather than if it opened in 2020 in a pandemic less world.
 

On a small note, I’m on Puss in Boots doing 150M now because of how good Comcast is at marketing.

Edited July 1, 2022 by YourMother

[Jonwo]

I'm a bit meh about Illumination but it's clear they know their audience and that does create an issue for Disney and Pixar because if their films are more expensive than Illumination but they cannot cut their budgets to a level without compromising the quality.

 

 

[WrathOfHan]

[John Marston]

The 5 year gap since the last film is helping no doubt.