Director
Pierre Coffin
7 films•4 as cast•2010–2026•Animation · Comedy · Adventure
69%average critics76%average audience$305.0Mdomestic average
Films
7
2010–2026
Domestic
$2.14B
lifetime
Worldwide
$6.17B
lifetime
Avg opening
$78.1M
3-day
Avg legs
4.10x
opening → total
Return
10.7x
on $579.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 7 films credited to Pierre Coffin, 5 as director and 4 in the cast, from Despicable Me (2010) to Minions & Monsters (2026), together grossing $2.14B domestic and $6.17B worldwide. The biggest hit is Minions (2015) at $1.20B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $115.7M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Minions & Monsters | 2026 | $37.0M | $183.2M | 5.00x | $518.2M | A- | 91% | #10 |
 Despicable Me 4 | 2024 | $75.0M | $361.0M | 4.80x | $972.0M | A | 55% | #5 |
 Minions: The Rise of Gru | 2022 | $107.0M | $370.5M | 3.50x | $937.7M | A | 60% | #6 |
 Despicable Me 3 | 2017 | $72.4M | $264.6M | 3.65x | $1.03B | A- | 67% | #9 |
 Minions | 2015 | $115.7M | $336.0M | 2.90x | $1.20B | A | 56% | #7 |
 Despicable Me 2 | 2013 | $83.5M | $368.0M | 4.41x | $971.0M | A | 75% | #4 |
 Despicable Me | 2010 | $56.4M | $252.0M | 4.46x | $543.0M | A | 80% | #7 |
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
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 2.7 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
10.7x
$6.17B worldwide on $579.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $2.14BInternational $4.04B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven16.2x
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 are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#12Biggest animated openingsMinions$115.7M#14Best multipliersDespicable Me 44.81x#15Biggest animated openingsMinions: The Rise of Gru$107.0M#17Biggest PG openingsMinions$115.7M#19Biggest animated openingsDespicable Me 2$83.5M#33Biggest worldwide runsMinions$1.16B
6 placings across 4 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.
Connected
Series
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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