How Much Money Has Minions: The Rise Of Gru Made (& Why)
Minions: The Rise of Gru has had one of the biggest opening weekend earnings for a non-Disney animation movie in recent years – here's how much money Minions 2 has made and why. Like the 2015 Despicable Me spinoff movie Minions, Minions 2 focuses on the cute yellow beings that speak a nonsensical language and serve Gru (Steve Carell), a supervillain with a kind heart – at least at the end of 2010's Despicable Me. Minions 2 details the first meeting between 11-year-old aspiring supervillain Gru and the yellow beings while chronicling the dangers young Gru ends up finding himself in as a result of minion Otto's (Pierre Coffin) choices.
Previous installments in the Despicable Me film franchise have already proven successful with audiences, with every movie topping the one preceding it at the box office to date. 2017's Despicable Me 3, the last installment in the franchise before Minions: The Rise of Gru, earned $1.034 billion at the box office. While it still hasn't reached these highs, Minions 2 is the only animated movie to truly rival Disney's box office since 2019. Besides its lucrative movies, the Despicable Me franchise has developed a widely recognized brand over the years, with its minions at the center of its merchandise, short stories, video games, books, and other forms of entertainment media.
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In the period since its release over a 4th of July opening weekend, Minions 2 earned $210 million domestically and almost $190 million internationally, grossing nearly $400 million worldwide. While Illumination's Despicable Me movie franchise has always been profitable for Universal Pictures due to the minions' marketability among children, few could
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