‘Minions’ Take $115.2M in Box Office

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Updated Apr. 14, 2017 10:26AM EDT / Published Jul. 12, 2015 12:41PM EDT

This weekend’s debut of Minions, the Despicable Me spinoff starring the film’s incomprehensible yellow henchmen, took in a whopping $115.2 million at U.S. box offices this weekend—the second biggest opening of all time for an animated film. (Shrek the Third holds the record, with $121.6 million in 2007.) “They’re bigger than Spongebob. They just have that mass appeal right now and are basically a merchandiser’s dream,” a senior box-office analyst for Exhibitor Relations told USA Today.

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‘Minions’ Take $115.2M in Box Office