Minions Tracking For $100-110 Million Opening Weekend

Minions already made its debut abroad, scooping up $125M, but how will it do stateside?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Despicable Me spinoff is tracking in the $100 million-$110 million range.

If it comes in at the high end of estimates, Minions will have the second, or third, best opening for an animated film. Shrek the Third is the king with $122.5 million and Toy Story 3 is currently second with $110.3 million.

Either way, Minions will become only the fourth animated film to crack $100 million in its debut weekend. The other animated film to do so was Shrek 2 with $108 million.

Minions are yellow henchmen, who have existed since the beginning of beginning, evolving from a yellow single-cell organisms into beings who have only one purpose: to serve the most ambitious villains. After their masters were destroyed, they decide to isolate themselves from the world and start a new life in Antarctica. Sometime in the 60s, the lack of a master drives them into depression, so bravest minion and two other volunteers set out to find a new one. They arrive at a villain convention, where they compete for the right to be henchmen for Scarlet Overkill, a stylish and ambitious villain determined to dominate the world and become the first female super-villain.

Minions hits theaters on July 10th.