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Minions

2015 PG 1h 31m Animation, Comedy, Family Universal Pictures

Before Gru, they had a history of bad bosses.

Box office summary
Opening Weekend
$115.7M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$336.0M
Final
Worldwide Total
$1.2B
$821.2M international
Domestic Legs2.90x
Budget$74.0M
2015 Rank#6
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Jul 10-12 1 $115.7M $115.7M 4,301 $27K 1
Jul 17-19 2 $49.3M -57.4% $215.8M 4,311 $11K 2
Jul 24-26 3 $22.9M -53.5% $262.5M 4,062 $6K 3
Jul 31-33 4 $12.4M -46.0% $287.6M 3,575 $3K 4
Aug 7-9 6 $7.4M -39.9% $302.8M 3,123 $2K 5
Aug 14-16 8 $5.1M -30.9% $312.9M 2,640 $2K 6
Aug 21-23 9 $3.8M -25.6% $320.1M 2,226 $2K 7
Aug 28-30 11 $2.9M -24.9% $324.8M 1,976 $1K 8
Sep 4-6 11 $3.0M +3.2% $328.8M 1,927 $2K 9
Sep 11-13 14 $1.5M -49.0% $331.6M 1,585 $955 10
Sep 18-20 15 $987K -34.8% $332.9M 1,134 $870 11
Sep 25-27 19 $436K -55.8% $333.5M 507 $860 12
Oct 2-4 20 $309K -29.2% $333.9M 265 $1K 13
Oct 9-11 24 $245K -20.5% $334.2M 253 $970 14
Oct 16-18 22 $241K -1.9% $334.5M 243 $990 15
Oct 23-25 25 $198K -17.9% $334.8M 231 $855 16
Oct 30-32 32 $143K -27.8% $335.0M 234 $610 17
Nov 6-8 28 $194K +36.1% $335.2M 227 $855 18
Nov 13-15 30 $159K -18.4% $335.5M 206 $770 19
Nov 20-22 28 $116K -27.1% $335.6M 182 $635 20
Nov 27-29 29 $131K +12.9% $335.8M 173 $755 21
Dec 4-6 34 $82K -37.5% $335.9M 190 $430 22
Dec 11-13 35 $61K -24.8% $336.0M 141 $435 23

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byKyle Balda, Pierre Coffin
ScreenplayBrian Lynch
Produced byChris Meledandri, Janet Healy
MusicHeitor Pereira
StarringSandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Pierre Coffin
StudioUniversal Pictures