'Minions: The Rise of Gru' Takes Over Holiday Weekend Box Office, Breaks Records

Minions: The Rise of Gru has been having a big weekend at the domestic and worldwide box office!

The Despicable Me prequel movie has already made so much money, and has even sparked a huge movement on social media.

If you haven’t seen, fans, mainly male teenagers and young adult male fans, have been dressing up and going to see the movie in theaters. #GentleMinions has been going off on Tiktok!

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THR reports that the new Minions film is estimated to make $125.2 million at the domestic box office for the four-day opening weekend.

The movie brought in $86 million at the global box office as of Sunday, bringing it’s overall total to over $200.

If you remember, the animated feature was actually supposed to be released in 2020, but was pushed back multiple times due to the pandemic before finally landing it’s final release date.

In addition, Minions: The Rise of Gru is breaking not only pandemic era box office records, but it’s making way for one of the top starts at the domestic box office.

Previously, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 held the record for biggest PG rated-release opening of the pandemic era with $72 million.

For the Fourth of July weekend, Minions is poised to take the top spot in the weekend’s openings.

Other films that hold the biggest Fourth of July openings include Transformers: Dark of the Moon with $115.9 million, Spider-Man 2 with $115.8 million and even Despicable Me 2 with $99 million.