UPDATE, writethru: Coming in slightly above the estimates we reported on Saturday, Universal/Illumination’s Minions: The Rise Of Gru has boogied to an $87.2M weekend at the international box office.

(11 cm) deep/Available: May 1, 2024 The second Despicable Me 4 LEGO set is a Brick-Built Gru with dancing Minions. It comes with a ukulele-playing Mel and Kevin, armed with his fart gun.

While many other animated family films opted for streaming or hybrid releases, “Minions,” much like “Top Gun: Maverick,” stayed the course and waited for an ideal time to launch in ...

Holdovers — especially Top Gun: Maverick — are also contributing to the boon. Heading into the weekend, tracking suggested that Minions 2 would open in the $70 million to $80 million range for ...

However, if you were sat at a desk with a pencil and a pad, gun to your head, forced to rank the film's finest moments, every single one of them involves the Minions themselves. The three Minions ...

Minions: Rise of Gru, as expected, dominated the July 4th weekend box office. In doing so, it set a new record for a July 4th opening, as it scored $125.1 million. After some felt that Lightyear's ...

Taking the latter part first, Minions: The Rise of Gru crossed $900M global, Bullet Train drove past $200M and Top Gun: Maverick soared to $1.45B+ (see more below). For those keeping track of ...

Continuing to soar, “Top Gun: Maverick” is still breaking all ... are seeing two and three times at the theater. Out Friday, “Minions: The Rise of Gru” is another film that’s based ...

To Griffin, the Minions do the heavy lifting, and all forthcoming films should focus on them. In the critic’s words: If you were sat at a desk with a pencil and a pad, gun to your head ...