Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru had pulled in the best preview earnings at the box office of any animated feature since the start of the Coivd-19 pandemic.
The latest film in the Despicable Me universe raked in $10.75 million dollars from showtimes starting at 2pm on Thursday in 3,350 rooms. Not only is the performance a post-pandemic best, it also tops what Minions was able to do when that film earned $6.2 million from previews in 2015.
According to Scott Mendelson at Forbes, The Rise of Gru’s preview gross ranks fourth all-time in animated feature preview earnings, behind only the cg-animation remake of The Lion King ($23 million), Incredibles 2 ($18.2 million), and Toy Story 4 ($12 million).