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

[riczhang]

This is a prequel isn't it? I thought it was set in the 60s.

[Empire]

Yeah, it is a prequel set in the 60s.

[Michael Gary Scott]

Yeah, it is a prequel set in the 60s.

So that's why Jon Hamm is in it

[Empire]

Ha Ha

 

I didn't even think about that.

[warfreakbix]

I'm already excited for this movie and it doesn't have a title yet.  

[Neo]

Actually, it was Avatar/Sherlock Holmes/Alvin.

 

Avatar's second weekend was over Christmas and saw a miniscule 1.8% drop from the weekend prior.  It made $75.6M.  Sherlock Holmes opened to $62.3M and Alvin, which had technically opened the Wednesday prior, made $48.9M.  This was a record weekend at the time. 

 

All three films broke $200M, with Avatar clearly going on to far greater heights.  But it shows that the marketplace can expand when the movies warrant it.  Furthermore, those three films opened in 2009, arguably the height of the economic downturn.  While one might argue that this was the holiday season, Minions and TH3 are also during the holidays. Therefore, I think both will do very well.

 

Also, Sandra Bullock is set to have a voice role.  This suggests that there is dialogue. The premise is that the minions serve an "evil overlord".  This is why they worked happily for Gru (of course, they also seem to have a soft side, but I digress).  Bullock's character wants to be the first female super-villian.  In a way, I guess it makes this more of a prequel.

Now I know, that is why I gave 2 different examples.

[Neo]

Avatar was a once in a generation type run.  Nobody's expecting another Hobbit film to have that kind of run. 

 

No is saying that it will. Point is you can have 2 big movies (live-action/animated) in the same week(s). 

[kayumanggi]

I'm really not sure about this. All minions for 90 - 110 minutes?

[CJohn]

I'm really not sure about this. All minions for 90 - 110 minutes?

This is a prequel about how minions were created. There will be a character with the voice of Sandra Bullock and she will be the Minion's boss. They will lose that job, but someone else will hire them. That someone else is Gru. Movie ends. Most likely is something like this.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

I can see this doing 200 mil+

[kayumanggi]

This is a prequel about how minions were created. There will be a character with the voice of Sandra Bullock and she will be the Minion's boss. They will lose that job, but someone else will hire them. That someone else is Gru. Movie ends. Most likely is something like this.

 

lol that is a movie? Ha ha.

[Dilusha Bandara]

What would be this movie's title???

[Neo]

Universal, Illumination Move their Minions to Summer 2015

[Jonwo]

Guess Universal saw an opportunity and took it, interesting they didn't just take the old date of the Untitled Illumination film which is moving to February 12th 2016. 2014 now has no Illumination film, no Pixar film and no SPA film.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

2014 is getting more and more weak. 

[Fancyarcher]

2014 is getting more and more weak. 

 

It would appear so. 

[Neo]

2014 is getting more and more weak. 

Doesn't it happen for every year? Look at 2015, not even 2014 and movies are already moving out.

[Impact]

Dang outside of Dragon 2 and Rio 2 next year does not look strong for animation.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Doesn't it happen for every year? Look at 2015, not even 2014 and movies are already moving out.

Yes but 2014 was already weak. 

[Neo]

Yes but 2014 was already weak. 

True, true.