The adorable yellow fellas from the ‘Despicable Me’ hit franchise, who got their very own feature film release this year, are celebrating their success at the box-office with… you guessed it right – Bananasss!
Illumination Entertainment’s runaway hit, which is yet to open in China, has already become only the third animation feature film to breach the $1 billion mark globally. Minions is now only behind Disney’s Frozen and Pixar’s Toy Story 3 in total gross and is all set to become the highest grossing animation feature film of all time with the China market yet to open for Gru’s assistants.
The Despicable Me spinoff distributed by Universal grossed $14.9 million from 60 overseas territories over the past weekend for a new international total of $694.1 million and $1.01891 billion worldwide. That number is on track to go nowhere but up with Minions set to debut in China on 13 September.
Pixar’s Inside Out also continues to chug along overseas, posting $10.9 million from 35 territories this past weekend. The animated feature directed by Pete Docter has now made a total of $371.1 million at the international box office for a total of $715.625 million worldwide. A release date for China has not yet been confirmed.
