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

[Ethan Hunt]

Well I am dissapointed.

I was expecting this to be more gut-busting hilarious but instead I got bored. My audience was also very silence about the movie, except for a few hilarious bits here and there.

I am lowering my OW prediction to 145m.

It has no chance at that number Edited July 10, 2015 by Ethan Hunt

[shayhiri]

That was the joke, Ethan.

 

My theatre was choke full (first time I've seen this) with mature people (evening showing), who were braying with laughter throughout the movie. This will be tremendous.

[shayhiri]

Go see the movie.

 

I especially like the scene where they show the Moon landing to be a hoax.

 

Probably the only real life documentary moment in the whole movie.

Edited July 11, 2015 by CJohn

[Avatree]

Shay, spoilertag that. It's one of the funniest shots in the film.

[shayhiri]

Sorry, guys.

 

I thought everyone was already aware of that fact.

[TheJosher360]

Sorry, guys.

 

I thought everyone was already aware of that fact.

Chill

[Blankments]

Final predicts:

 

DOM: 375M

WW: 927M

[Asyulus]

Final predicts:

 

DOM: 375M

WW: 927M

Its defininitly making $1b WW.

[shayhiri]

BTW, just saw it again: still fabulous. Really beautifully rendered, off the hook insane, and crowd-maddeningly hilarious.

(All of these severely lacking in recent Pixar schlock.)

 

You can quote me on that.

 

PS: There was some new BEAUTIFUL trailer of Pan attached. Will be a great movie.

[K1stpierre]

BTW, just saw it again: still fabulous. Really beautifully rendered, off the hook insane, and crowd-maddeningly hilarious.

(All of these severely lacking in recent Pixar schlock.)

 

You can quote me on that.

 

PS: There was some new BEAUTIFUL trailer of Pan attached. Will be a great movie.

Pan?

[Avatree]

Have you Muricans had the Pan trailer featuring Huge Ackman saying, "G'day kids! Hope y'all enjoy the Minions!" (yes, really)?

[shayhiri]

Pan?

 

Yes.

 

I know you all hate it.

 

But it is obviously a very beautiful movie I can get behind.

[Ethan Hunt]

Shit... Me and Shay are the only people looking forward to Pan...

[CJohn]

New trailer is coming today for Pan.

[shayhiri]

New trailer is coming today for Pan.

 

I knew it.

 

Hope it's the same one that blew me away on the big screen.

[DAJK]

Shit... Me and Shay are the only people looking forward to Pan...

And DAJK and about 10 people at my work

[Sir Tiki]

Not sure if this had been posted yet:

 

http://adage.com/article/media/minions-600-million-publicity-spree/299434/

 

Over $600 million was spent on the Minions' promotional push, $593 million of which came from various companies plugging the movie.

[DAJK]

That 600M number is crazy. Wow!

Movie was good. Not IO level amazing of course, but I laughed quite a bit. I can see what some critics are saying how minions work as side characters, as about halfway through the movie, kids in the theatre stopped laughing at a minion saying something silly, or falling over. At that point the film had to "try harder" for those laughs.

[tupek]

Not sure if this had been posted yet:

http://adage.com/article/media/minions-600-million-publicity-spree/299434/

Over $600 million was spent on the Minions' promotional push, $593 million of which came from various companies plugging the movie.

No wonder it broke records everywhere.

With that budget even Home would have broken records ...

[James]

No wonder it broke records everywhere.

With that budget even Home would have broken records ...

Yeah, but in the end is pure revenue. Those companies paid to have the Minions represent them so that is a huge win for the brand.