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'Despicable Me' Becomes First Animated Franchise to Gross $5 Billion
As Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 continues to roll out worldwide, and with Friday’s numbers thrown in, the latest news from Gru and the gang has helped propel the Despicable Me/Minions franchise over the $5B mark (to $5.025B through Friday) at the global box office. This makes it the first animated franchise ever to reach this milestone. It was already the highest-grossing animated franchise of all time worldwide.
DM4 is projected to be the No. 1 film worldwide for the second consecutive frame this weekend, with an estimated $136M worldwide through Sunday. That would bring its running worldwide total to $441M, including $210.45M from domestic and $230.7M from 78 international box office markets.
After beginning early overseas play in select markets four weeks ago, DM4 has added France, Germany, the UK and China to this frame. Japan is still to be released on July 19, Korea on July 24 and Italy on August 21.
