''Minions: Rise Of Gru' Grosses Over $200 Million In Its Opening Weekend

‘Minions: Rise of Gru’ grosses over $200 million in its opening weekend.

In Spain it has been released earning 3.6 million euros.

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''Minions: Rise Of Gru' Grosses Over $200 Million In Its Opening Weekend

Very good news for the animation studios Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures and, in contrast, much worse for Pixar. On the one hand, the box office debut of Minions: The rise of Gru , the prequel to The Minions , has resulted in a blockbuster of 202 million dollars (almost 194 million euros) globally.

On the other hand, another prequel and spin-off, that of Lightyear based on the space guardian doll from Toy Story and that in two and a half weeks has raised 187.5 , a figure even lower than that of the prequel to The Minions in only three days of exhibition, according to data recorded by Box Office Mojo .

Of the more than 200 million earned by this new installment of the tiny characters, 108.5 correspond to the United States , making it the highest grossing movie of the past weekend and becoming the record for the highest grossing film released on the weekend. week of July 4 , the holiday that commemorates Independence Day (The record was held until now by Transformers: Dark of the Moon with 115.9 million in 2011). And since this year it has fallen on Monday, it is estimated that its income could be around 129 million in these four days.

The Minions also had an (unexpected) box office hit on its run in the big theaters in 2015 with $1,159.3 million grossed worldwide . The small and funny yellow protagonists have already caused a sensation since their introduction in the 2010 feature film Despicable Me, which grossed $543.1 million , while its sequel, released in 2014, confirmed this upward trend of the franchise. seizing 970.7 million .

In Spain, Minions: The origin of Gru has become the third best debut of the year with 3.6 million euros , and only below the 5.6 of Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness and the 4.5 from Jurassic World: Dominion , but surpassing The Batman 's 3.4 .