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The origin story is the fifth entry in Illumination and Universal's blockbuster 'Despicable Me' franchise.

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00:00As we move toward a new world order, this puny little child thinks he can be a villain.

00:05I am pretty despicable.

00:11Minions The Rise of Gru is blasting off at the domestic box office.

00:15The film debuted to a huge $10.8 million in Thursday previews.

00:19This marks the biggest preview number of the pandemic era for an animated film.

00:23The Rise of Gru is a sequel to 2015's Minions and is the fifth entry in the Despicable Me

00:28franchise, which is the top-grossing animated series in history, not adjusted for inflation.

00:33The origin story reveals how supervillain Gru and the Minions met when Gru was a young

00:37boy in the 1970s growing up in the suburbs.

00:40Good night.

00:41Good night.

00:42Yes, yes, yes, good night.

00:45Good night!

00:45Yo!

00:46Tracking suggests that Minions The Rise of Gru will open in the $70 to $80 million range

00:51for the four-day July 4th weekend, but it could well come in higher.

00:54The movie, which saw its release delayed by more than a year because of the COVID-19

00:58pandemic, will test the strength of the family box office just weeks after Pixar and Disney's

01:03light year failed to soar into the stratosphere.

01:05For the latest box office news and numbers, go to THR.com.

01:09For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.