Minions | 7.10.2015 | Crosses 1 BILLION Worldwide. Beats Toy Story 3 on the all-time chart.

[MovieMan89]

Monster debut for the Minions in  France but here, it s even worse than anywhere else.

The Minions are everywhere since the Minions' father is french.

Tons & tons of articles on him in every newspaper & website.

Lots of tie ins with brands too.

I'm starting to wonder just how high it can go on OW in the US. The foreign openings so far have been crazy.

[Avatree]

In the UK, Minions OW was down significantly from DM2 OW, which is why I'm keeping my predictions for US conservative. UK & US play very similarly when it comes to blockbusters. 

[redfirebird2008]

In the UK, Minions OW was down significantly from DM2 OW, which is why I'm keeping my predictions for US conservative. UK & US play very similarly when it comes to blockbusters. 

 

What about Australia where it jumped 30% over DM2's opening?

[JohnnyGossamer]

Preview shows starting at 6am now?

Fixed.

Kidding of course but it's heading that way...

[Avatree]

What about Australia where it jumped 30% over DM2's opening?

US box office behaves much closer to UK than it does to Aus.

[redfirebird2008]

What about the fact DM2 had a shitload of preview money included in that UK opening? From the UK thread in the International forum...

 

Universal’s animation spin-off from the popularDespicable Me series grossed a superb non-final $18.1m (£11.6m) from its 573 sites, meaning that the distributor now boasts four of the five biggest openings of the year to date.

The debut ranks behind Despicable Me 2’s $23.3m (£14.8m) bow from 534 sites, but that included $7.7m (£4.9m) in previews. Based solely on Fri-Sun takings,Minions took more than Despicable Me 2’s $15.7m (£9.98m).

 

[grim22]

In the UK, Minions OW was down significantly from DM2 OW, which is why I'm keeping my predictions for US conservative. UK & US play very similarly when it comes to blockbusters.

Didn't Minions just break the 3 day OW for an animated movie in UK history? DM2's OW had 2 weeks of previews rolled in.

Universal’s animation spin-off from the popularDespicable Me series grossed a superb non-final $18.1m (£11.6m) from its 573 sites, meaning that the distributor now boasts four of the five biggest openings of the year to date.

The debut ranks behind Despicable Me 2’s $23.3m (£14.8m) bow from 534 sites, but that included $7.7m (£4.9m) in previews. Based solely on Fri-Sun takings,Minions took more than Despicable Me 2’s $15.7m (£9.98m).

Minions will now look to try and challenge Despicable Me 2’s $74.3m (£47.3m) UK result, and could be aided by a relatively clear run at the family market until the arrival of Disney’s Inside Out on July 24.

Edited July 8, 2015 by grim22

[Avatree]

I don't know how I had missed that information, thanks.

[redfirebird2008]

So it was up over 15% from DM2's opening weekend in the UK. If it does that in the USA, it will make around $130m assuming DM2 would have made around $113m with a Friday opening.

[Dementeleus]

If this is the widest and most comprehensive marketing campaign Universal's ever done, it's waaaay over 50m in marketing. I don't care how much the promotional partners are covering.

[goldenstate5]

If this is the widest and most comprehensive marketing campaign Universal's ever done, it's waaaay over 50m in marketing. I don't care how much the promotional partners are covering.

 

Either way, it's probably just about to be covered, if not already.

[Ethan Hunt]

Jeremy Jahns gave it "good time no alcohol required" which is a much better grade then it seemed like he was going to give it based on what he had to say about it

[AniNate]

Preview shows starting at 6pm now?

 

Why not just have everything open on Thursday and be done with it? A lot of European countries already do it.

[WrathOfHan]

When people say it's going to do better than DM2's OW, are they accounting the 5 day total or only the first weekend? Because it's highly likely to beat the weekend.

[The Futurist]

http://deadline.com/2015/07/minions-promotional-push-biggest-in-studio-history-1201471603/

 

 

‘Minions’ Lines Up Biggest Promo Push In Uni’s History With McDonald’s And More

[Wrath]

Just for variety I'd like to go 5 minutes without seeing Minions advertising. Seriously, everywhere I go and everything I do, there's a Minions advert there to greet me. I'm taking the Wrathettes to see it, probably Saturday evening, and I'm looking forward to just getting it out of the way.

[forg]

Universal probably raked in al ot already a lot just by merchandising alone, here in my country, Minions are everywhere and there were looong lines for the happy meals and the toy stores are filled with minions stuff

Edited July 9, 2015 by forg

[grim22]

Huge starts in Hong Kong

 

 

Minions OW(including previews) may beat DM2 lifetime gross.

Massive increase here.

 

 

 

And in Israel as well

 

 

The Despicable Me series:

 

DM: OW: 201K  total: 1.7M

DM2: OW: 330K(334K) total: 3M

Minions: OW: 622K(727K)

 

So yeah, huge growth.

 

[Jandrew]

Universal probably raked in al ot already a lot just by merchandising alone, here in my country, Minions are everywhere and there were looong lines for the happy meals and the toy stores are filled with minions stuff

$2.5 billion in 4 years.

[AniNate]

These things are probably infiltrating parents' nightmares by this point