Bananaaaaaa! The news has just fallen: Despicable Me has become the highest-grossing animated saga of all time. Thus, in just four films, Gru and his Minions have placed at the top of the world box office!
Here is a piece of news that has the effect of a bomb. The Minions surpassed what Shrek, his buddy Donkey and Puss in Boots took 5 years to build. From now on, the kings of the box office are them! You will tell us that in three films, the saga Despicable Me has only paid (!) $2,393,355,420 worldwide. However, we must not forget that the spin-off on the Minions brought in an additional $ 1,159,000,000! Oh yes!
The income thus amounts to $3,528,000,000. Bigre! The saga is placed in front of Shrek and its four films with in addition a spin-off on the character of Puss in Boots. On top of that, the Minions still hold the status of the second biggest animation success in history. They are also in thirteenth place among the highest-grossing films in the history of cinema. Disney's Frozen holds firm in ninth place in this ranking. But until when?!
We will certainly have the chance to see Gru and his little yellow comrades return for a fourth episode. In the meantime, a Minions sequel is scheduled for July 8, 2020 with the aim of raising the bar even higher and maintaining the place of box office kings in the animation industry.
Decidedly, the franchise launched by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud will have given a sacred place to the Illumination studio in a very competitive universe where Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks leave little room for challengers. We note that Despicable Me 3 is about to become the biggest hit of the current year. That's all the harm we wish them!
