The news article, “Minions’ set box office on fire with a $108.5 million debut,” addresses the popularity of the movie, Minions: The Rise of Gru. It is a very popular movie, so most kids of ages 10 and under will watch it, making the film’s director very rich. The news explains, “Minions: The Rise of Gru brought in an estimated $108.5 million in ticket sales from 4,391 screens in North America. By the end of the Monday July Fourth holiday, it will likely have earned over $127.9 million.” If these numbers don’t prove that the film was successful, I don’t know what will. This article compared the minion’s movie to Transformers: Dark of the Moon which made $115.9 million in its first four days in 2011. Including international showings, where Minions: The Rise of Gru is playing in 61 markets, its worldwide gross is sitting at $202.2 million through Sunday.” This is another example of showing the large amount of revenue generated by the movie.

The highest revenue generated by an animated film from the same studio as minion’s is Sing 2. This film got over $406 million ever since it got uploaded to streaming platform in December. The news says, “this is just the latest in a string of successes for Universal’s family releases. In addition, The Bad Guys also made a lot of money from the people that are watching it. They got a total of over $243 million.

Minions: The Rise of Gru’s popularity is an important phenomenon because without these interesting movies kids won’t have entertainment. There are so many options to choose from: comedy, horror, old tv shows, and even more. The news article reports that, “families feel very comfortable bringing all their kids to the theater. These results speak for themselves.”