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

[Mattrek]

Ethan it's you and me against the world my friend.

[PDC1987]

A major cross promotion with NASCAR is starting soon.

[Heretic]

No joke, I've never seen pre-sales like this for any animated film ever before in the UK. Minions opens tomorrow, pre-sales around my area look bigger than both JW and AoU. Even for Friday night. Saturday is another level.

[mahnamahna]

There's crazy and then there's just plain insanity. This is the latter. It won't even do half that OW. This board is off the rails with Minions.

Like your $80-100 million DOM predict for Underdogs? 

 

Minions is improving significantly over DM2 in pre-sales/OS. $120-150 million OW is fairly reasonable. $200 million is ridiculous, but after Jurassic World, no $200 million OW for any tentpole should be considered complete insanity.

 

Minions has no direct competition (since Ant-Man/Pixels aren't direct comp for Underdogs, same goes for Minions) for 3.5 weeks. And I hesitate to even consider Shaun the Sheep or Underdogs true competition if this gets a $130-150 million OW. They'll be hurt by Minions/IO like DM2/MU hurt Turbo and Smurfs 2. 

 

After having its trailer attached to every showing of JW and IO, I don't see how it misses $300 million+ DOM. $90-100 million is the floor for its OW. 

 

Not to mention DM2/Frozen has shown a precedent for two $350 million+ DOM animated films in a single calendar year. IO and Minions could definitely pull that off - and for the sake of continuing the record-breaking pace, a gigantic Minions breakout is needed. 

[CoolioD1]

saw this today. probably my favourite movie illumination has done so far. C+.

[goldenstate5]

saw this today. probably my favourite movie illumination has done so far. C+.

 

haha ouch. talk about damning with faint praise.

[Avatree]

Jesus fucking christ Minions is massive this weekend. This is insane. 

[SchumacherFTW]

Got tickets for tomorrow at half 5 in 3D, and it's already about half full, which for a 3D animated film is fantastic!

[DAJK]

My friend is in town for the summer and the theatre wants to hire him part time, but it isn't busy enough yet to add an extra person to the shifts, so they said wait and see how Minions is tracking next week. Now I have a personal reason to root for this movie... at least in my town.

[CoolioD1]

Got tickets for tomorrow at half 5 in 3D, and it's already about half full, which for a 3D animated film is fantastic!

I saw it today and I thought I'd miss most of the kids since I saw it at noon but a whole class of them came into the cinema. Looked like a school trip.

[ddddeeee]

saw this today. probably my favourite movie illumination has done so far. C+.

Keaton?

[CoolioD1]

Keaton?

Not in it enough to leave much of an impression. there's one pretty funny gag with that family.

[Jonwo]

I saw it today and it's good but not great, it's funny in places but it's IMO the weakest of the DM franchise.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

Wonder how much DM3 will do WW?....If this one breaks out massively?

[Mojoguy]

Wonder how much DM3 will do WW?....If this one breaks out massively?

This isn't DM3. Don't call it that. It is a spinoff.

DM3 doesn't come out for 2 more years.

[The Futurist]

How was Miss Gravity in this ?

[MrFanaticGuy34]

This isn't DM3. Don't call it that. It is a spinoff.

DM3 doesn't come out for 2 more years.

I was talking about the real DM3. Not this one...of course it's a spinoff.

[AndyLL]

I was talking about the real DM3. Not this one...of course it's a spinoff.

If Minions does great DM3 will be crazy

[MrFanaticGuy34]

Oh..and Minions is at 74% on RT.

 

That's pretty good. A bit higher than JW and the same as AOU.

[Asyulus]

Oh..and Minions is at 74% on RT.

 

That's pretty good. A bit higher than JW and the same as AOU.

Its still early reviews, so it might change.