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Comcast's Universal says Minions most profitable movie ever for Hollywood studio

The movie-rating web site Rotten Tomatoes has slapped the Minions with a 50 percent audience score, calling the
2015 animated family comedy hilarious and uneven.

But the bean counters at the Comcast Center are giving it 100 percent thumbs up.

Comcast-owned Universal Pictures confirmed this week that Minions was the Hollywood studio's most profitable movie ever. The third film in the Despicable Me series cost $74 million to produce and grossed $1.2 billion at the big-screen box office globally. NBCUniversal head Steve Burke first disclosed the stat in a January letter to NBCUniversal employees summing up last year's highlights.

Universal Pictures has not said how much it spent marketing the Minions movie. But the Hollywood studio noted that
71 percent of the box-office take for the Minions, or $823 million, came internationally, and that it was No. 1 in the
global box office for three weeks.The film was the highest-grossing animated film in Latin America.

Minions was one of the three billion-dollar blockbusters for
Universal Pictures last year, the others being Jurassic World and Furious 7. Universal Pictures earned revenues of $7.3 billion and profits of $1.2 billion in 2015, Comcast's regulatory filings say.