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‘Minions: The Rise Of Gru’ Propels Illumination’s ‘Despicable Me’ Franchise Past $4B In Global Box Office

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With Illumination/Universal’s Minions: The Rise Of Gru continuing its dastardly ways at the global box office, the origins story has propelled the Despicable Me franchise across the $4B mark worldwide.

The Chris Meledandri-produced series was already the biggest animated franchise of all time, and now has another milestone to boot.

Across all five films, the total is $4.012B. Bananas!Overall, the origins story has had strong offshore midweek performances, adding $14.9M on Wednesday and reaching an overseas cume of $134.6M, which is 11% below the first film at the same point in the same markets.

It’s also 2% above Despicable Me 3. The domestic cume through Wednesday is $154.2M. That lifts global to $288.8M.The Rise Of Gru opened early in Australia two weeks ago and this past frame added 60 overseas markets, setting some new milestones including four markets that scored the biggest animation opening weekend of all timeFrance, a ke y hub, just opened yesterday and had a $2.1M debut from 505K admissions (that’s excluding previews; when adding the sneaks it’s 605K admissions) bringing the cume to $2.7M.

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