Despicable Me - Highest Grossing Animated Film Franchise

Despicable Me Highest Grossing Animated Film Franchise

Despicable Me Highest Grossing Animated Film Franchise The Despicable Me franchise has overcome the Shrek animated series to become the highest-grossing animated film franchise of all time. Despicable Me 3, still going strong at the box-office, has seen the franchise reach a $3.528b total globally topping Shrek's accumulated takings of $3.51b (£2.68b), a total which includes the haul of spinoff Puss In Boots. The first of all these films, 2010’s Despicable Me  released in 2010, earned $546m (£418m) while its Oscar-nominated sequel - which arrived in 2013 - amassed $607.7m (£465.6m) upping the global haul to $976m (£748m). Overall earnings of $879.5 million, and still counting, the film is already the highest grosser in the realm of animated films not only in the US, globally as well. “Despicable Me 3” opened this summer and was a key factor that helped Illumination beat DreamWorks for the top spot in the animated film franchises. A sequel to Minions is already set to release, which makes the domination of this film franchise even more considerable. Minions have become a global phenomenon since first featuring in the debut Despicable Me film. Social media has particularly loved the minions with all kinds of memes and quotes being used with minions. Despicable Me features the voice talents of some of the best comedians including  Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig and Sandra Bullock. Shrek, Ice Age and Toy story follow the list with Despicable Me Highest Grossing Animated Film Franchise.