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Despicable Me 2

2013 PG 1h 38m Adventure, Animation, Comedy Universal Pictures

More minions. More despicable.

Despicable Me 2 Box Office

Opening Weekend
$83.5M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$368M
Final
Worldwide Total
$971M
$603M international
Domestic Legs4.41x
Budget$76.0M
2013 Rank#4
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Jul 5-7 1 $83.52M $143.07M 3,997 $20.9K 1
Jul 12-14 1 $43.89M -47.4% $228.38M 4,003 $11.0K 2
Jul 19-21 2 $24.91M -43.3% $276.01M 3,820 $6.5K 3
Jul 26-28 3 $16.42M -34.1% $306.81M 3,476 $4.7K 4
Aug 2-4 5 $10.13M -38.3% $326.41M 3,207 $3.2K 5
Aug 9-11 9 $5.92M -41.6% $338.48M 2,395 $2.5K 6
Aug 16-18 11 $3.91M -33.9% $346.11M 1,818 $2.1K 7
Aug 23-25 14 $2.60M -33.5% $350.70M 1,402 $1.9K 8
Aug 30-Sep 1 13 $2.76M +6.1% $354.70M 1,284 $2.1K 9
Sep 6-8 15 $1.46M -47.1% $357.56M 1,050 $1.4K 10
Sep 13-15 13 $1.28M -12.1% $359.11M 1,006 $1.3K 11
Sep 20-22 13 $1.36M +6.1% $360.73M 1,004 $1.4K 12
Sep 27-29 16 $793K -41.7% $361.77M 748 $1.1K 13
Oct 4-6 19 $485K -38.8% $362.44M 485 $1.0K 14
Oct 11-13 19 $506K +4.2% $363.06M 434 $1.2K 15
Oct 18-20 20 $486K -3.9% $363.74M 395 $1.2K 16
Oct 25-27 20 $390K -19.7% $364.25M 379 $1.0K 17
Nov 1-3 16 $423K +8.4% $364.77M 309 $1.4K 18
Nov 8-10 18 $474K +12.0% $365.35M 310 $1.5K 19
Nov 15-17 19 $418K -11.9% $365.94M 305 $1.4K 20
Nov 22-24 19 $344K -17.7% $366.38M 295 $1.2K 21
Nov 29-Dec 1 23 $340K -1.0% $366.93M 271 $1.3K 22
Dec 6-8 26 $171K -49.6% $367.16M 252 $680 23
Dec 13-15 24 $144K -16.1% $367.36M 223 $645 24
Dec 20-22 29 $99K -31.5% $367.50M 197 $500 25
Dec 27-29 34 $129K +30.6% $367.74M 165 $779 26
Jan 3-5 36 $97K -24.9% $367.96M 151 $640 27
Jan 10-12 39 $66K -31.2% $368.05M 137 $485 28

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

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Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byPierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
ScreenplayMike Reiss, Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Produced byChris Meledandri, Janet Healy
MusicHeitor Pereira & Pharrell Williams
Prod. DesignYarrow Cheney
StarringSteve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Benjamin Bratt, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Elsie Fisher
StudioUniversal Pictures

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