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Despicable Me 4 soars to $632 million worldwide box office as franchise becomes 12th-biggest ever worldwide
Illumination and Universal's Despicable Me 4 effortlessly passed the six hundred mark at the worldwide box office this week, having now grossed $632 million through Thursday. The latest installment in the series has brought the worldwide total for the Despicable Me/Minions franchise to $5.3B, overtaking Transformers ($5.295B) and the Avatar films ($5.268B). This puts the franchise at No. 12 on the all-time worldwide chart.
As we reported earlier this month, the latest installment of Gru and the gang helped propel the Despicable Me/Minions films over the $5 billion mark worldwide, making it the first animated franchise to reach that milestone. It was already, and remains, the biggest animated franchise of all time worldwide.
After beginning early overseas releases in select markets on June 20, the Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage-co-directed DM4 has continued a phased release pattern. This past frame, Japan added the biggest studio opening of the year. Korea joined the fun on Wednesday of this week, with Italy still set for release on August 21.
