UniversalThe yellow Minions made a lot of green at the box office over the weekend.
Minions, a spin-off of the Despicable Me movies, earned an estimated 115.2 million dollars from Friday through Sunday. It ranks as the second-biggest opening ever for an animated film, trailing only the $121.6-million-debut of Shrek the Third in 2007.
Minions knocked another animated movie, Inside Out, out of the top spot. The Disney/Pixar film fell to third place, raising 17.1 million dollars.
The horror flick The Gallows opened in fifth place, with $10 million, while the Ben Kingsley-Ryan Reynolds thriller Self/less bowed in disappointing eighth place, with $5.4 million.
Here are the top 10 movies from Friday through Sunday, with estimated ticket sales, according to Rentrak:
1. Minions, $115.2 million.
2. Jurassic World, $18.1 million.
3. Inside Out, $17.1 million.
4. Terminator Genisys, $13.7 million.
5. The Gallows, $10 million.
6. Magic Mike XXL, $9.6 million.
7. Ted 2, $5.6 million.
8. Self/less, $5.4 million.
9. Max, $3.4 million.
10. Spy, $3 million.
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