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China Adds Postscript to ‘Minions’ Showing Crime Doesn’t Pay

The latest “Minions” movie subtly reinforces a message for Chinese audiences that viewers in other countries won’t see: Crime doesn’t pay. A postscript added to the version in Chinese cinemas says a villainous character, who ends the movie as a free man, is later jailed for 20 years. Foreign films…

Asharq Al-Awsat

China adds postscript to 'Minions' showing crime doesn't pay

The latest “Minions” movie reinforces a message for Chinese audiences that viewers in other countries won’t see: Crime doesn’t pay

The Independent UK

China changes ending of Minions so that character serves 20 years in prison

Chinese censors changed film’s ending to ensure villain is caught by police, viewers report

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China changes ending of Minions: The Rise of Gru

Chinese censors changed film’s ending to ensure villain is caught by police, viewers report

The Independent UK

Minions: China mocked for turning Gru into family man in Despicable Me edit

Another Hollywood production has been edited by Beijing

Evening Standard

Bad Guys Turn Good in China 'Minions' Movie Ending

What's small, yellow, loves bananas and promotes the rule of law?

Asharq Al-Awsat

Chinese film censors ‘alter ending of Minions: The Rise of Gru’

Chinese censors changed film’s ending to ensure villain is caught by police, viewers report

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‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ given alternate ending by Chinese censors, report says

An addendum reportedly added by Chinese censors to “Minions: The Rise of Gru” is getting a rise out of viewers.

Tribune News Service

Chinese film censors ‘alter ending of Minions: The Rise of Gru’

Chinese censors changed film’s ending to ensure villain is caught by police, viewers report

The Independent UK

Bad guys turn good in China 'Minions' movie ending

Beijing (AFP) - What's small, yellow, loves bananas and promotes the rule of law?A Minion, at least according to an edited version of the latest animated film featuring supervillain Gru and his army of tiny sidekicks being screened in China.

AFP

All the films you can watch this summer holidays from £2.49 at Vue Cinema

Films such as Jumanji, Chicken Run and Lightyear will be showing at Vue cinemas over the summer break

Manchester Evening News

Vue 'Gentleminion' screenings introduced after Glasgow students storm cinema

54 of the finest Minions fans descended onto a Glasgow cinema, sharply dressed in suits and one even in a banana costume - so Vue has capitalised on the rising trend by creating special screenings.

Glasgow Live

#GentleMinions explained: Why TikTok teens are wearing suits to see Minions: The Rise of Gru

Here's what you need to know about the TikTok trend that's gone global and helped the latest Minions flick smash box office records.

ABC News

The revolution will be televised: why we are witnessing a big-boss backlash

As even the Minions start to question their morally compromised overlord, popular culture is increasingly siding with the workers in their fight against corporate greed

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Manchester Evening News

Cinemas banning teens in suits from watching Minions amid TikTok #gentleminions trend

Large groups of teenagers have been accused of rowdy behaviour which is spoiling the film for other viewers

AFP

Gru-some: suited Minions fans face UK cinema ban after rowdy scenes

London (AFP) - Some young UK fans wearing suits to showings of the new Minions movie as part of a social media trend have been turned away after similarly attired groups engaged in rowdy behaviour.

Daily Mirror

Gentle Minions trend - why are kids being thrown out of cinemas over TikTok meme?

Thousands of teens have been flocking to UK cinemas this week dressed to the nines, all to see Minions: The Rise of Gru - here's what the Gentleminions trend is about

Los Angeles Times

‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ dominates domestic box office

Universal Pictures’ “Minions: The Rise of Gru” rose to the top of the domestic box office this weekend, collecting $108.5 million, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore.

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AFP

'Minions' rule N.American theaters on July 4th weekend

Los Angeles (AFP) - "Minions: The Rise of Gru," the latest installment in the animated "Despicable Me" franchise, crushed the competition at the North American box office in its opening weekend, with an expected $127.9 million take over the four-day July 4th holiday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Minions’ Set Box Office on Fire with $108.5 Million Debut

Families went bananas for Minions this weekend at the movie theater. “Minions: The Rise of Gru” brought in an estimated $108.5 million in ticket sales from 4,391 screens in North America, Universal Pictures said Sunday.

Tribune News Service

‘Minions’ tops box office

“Minions: The Rise of Gru,” a sequel to the 2015 animated hit from Universal Pictures, topped the North American box office, drawing in family audiences and dethroning the Warner Bros. biopic “Elvis.”

The Independent UK

‘Minions’ set box office on fire with $108.5 million debut

Families went bananas for Minions this weekend at the movie theater

The Guardian - UK

Minions: The Rise of Gru review – another serving of funny goofball nonsense

Steve Carell’s wannabe supervillain takes on the hippest bad guys on the block in this irrepressible latest Despicable Me outing

Pedestrian.tv

Blokes Are Wearing Full Suits Ties To Minions 2 To Show It The Respect It Deserves

The father, the son and the house of Gru-cci.

Evening Standard

Minions: The Rise of Gru review: The minions are more appealing than ever

This new film easily outshines the second and third instalments of the series

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