Franchise
Despicable Me
7 films•2010–2026•Universal Pictures, Universal / Illumination
69%average critics76%average audience$305.2Mdomestic average
Films
7
2010–2026
Domestic
$2.14B
lifetime
Worldwide
$6.16B
lifetime
Avg opening
$78.1M
3-day
Avg legs
4.11x
opening → total
Return
10.6x
on $579.0M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minions: The Rise of Gru | 2022 | $107.0M | $370.5M | 3.50x | $937.7M | A | 60% | #6 |
| Despicable Me 2 | 2013 | $83.5M | $368.1M | 4.41x | $975.2M | A | 75% | #4 |
| Despicable Me 4 | 2024 | $75.0M | $361.0M | 4.80x | $986.7M | A | 55% | #5 |
| Minions | 2015 | $115.7M | $336.0M | 2.90x | $1.16B | A | 56% | #7 |
 Despicable Me 3 | 2017 | $72.4M | $264.6M | 3.65x | $1.03B | A- | 67% | #9 |
 Despicable Me | 2010 | $56.4M | $252.8M | 4.48x | $544.7M | A | 80% | #7 |
 Minions & Monsters | 2026 | $37.0M | $183.2M | 5.00x | $524.4M | A- | 91% | #10 |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
0$500M$1B
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 2.7 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
10.6x
$6.16B worldwide on $579.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $2.14BInternational $4.02B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven15.6x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#1Biggest July 4th openingsMinions: The Rise of Gru$107.0M#6Biggest July 4th openingsDespicable Me 2$83.5M#8Biggest July 4th openingsDespicable Me 4$75.0M#9Biggest July 4th openingsDespicable Me 3$72.4M#12Biggest animated openingsMinions$115.7M#14Biggest July openingsMinions$115.7M#15Best multipliersDespicable Me 44.81x#15Biggest animated openingsMinions: The Rise of Gru$107.0M#15Biggest July openingsMinions: The Rise of Gru$107.0M#17Biggest PG openingsMinions$115.7M
Top 10 of 16 placings across 8 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
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Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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