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‘Despicable Me’ Crosses $500 Million Mark

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday November 5, 2010 @ 4:49pm PDTTags: Animation, Box Office, Despicable Me, Despicable Me $500 Million, Despicable Me Box Office, Despicable Me Steve Carell, Illumination Entertainment, Movies, Universal Pictures
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EXCLUSIVE: Despicable Me, the first film out of the gate for Universal Pictures and Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment, will cross the $500 million worldwide gross mark tomorrow. It steps into rarefied territory as the film continues to roll out around the world. The 3D animated film that starred Steve Carell recently cracked the Top 10 list of all time biggest domestic-grossing animated films. The pic, which cost $69 million to make, has grossed $248 million domestically, which puts it a distant second behind Toy Story 3, but makes it 2010′s second biggest animated film domestic grosser so far. Despicable Me also has become  Universal’s sixth highest domestic-grossing film ever, and the studio’s biggest international grossing film of 2010. The film just opened in Japan but hasn’t played yet in several territories including China. It has done $247 million overseas, and is expected to finish as Universal’s fifth all-time biggest grossing film in the international marketplace. Just as important, the picture pulled Universal out of a prolonged slump. READ MORE »

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‘Despicable Me’ Passes $200M Domestic

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday August 6, 2010 @ 10:22am PDTTags: Box Office, Despicable Me, Despicable Me Box Office, Illumination Entertainment, Universal Pictures

It happened last night for the Universal/Illumination inaugural film and becomes the 8th pic this year– and the 4th toon — to cross the $200 million mark. It’s just beginning to roll out overseas in 44 territories over next few months, so the worldwide gross is now $234 million.

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Angelina Jolie’s ‘Salt’ Spices Up Weekend; But Chris Nolan’s ‘Inception’ Still Big No. 1

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday July 24, 2010 @ 10:15pm PDTTags: Angelina Jolie, Box Office, Chris Nolan Inception, Despicable Me Box Office, Ellen Page, Inception Box Office, Legendary Pictures, Leonardo DiCaprio, Philip Noyce, Salt Box Office, Salt Tracking, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros

SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM UPDATE: These numbers will be refined in the morning. But sources have given me early North American grosses now for the Top 10. Hollywood expected Inception to hold well in the large markets and on both coasts and it did with a $43.5 million second weekend and new domestic cume of $143.6M. But Salt definitely put some pepper into Friday’s and Saturday’s box office with a $36.5 million weekend. Thanks to these big #1 & #2, the overall weekend grosses looks like $160M, or +12% from last year. The other newcomer  Ramona and Beezus joined an already crowded family film market and finished with $8 million: Read More »

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Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Game Plan Includes ‘Despicable Me’ Sequel, ‘Minion’ Spinoffs, Dr. Seuss, The Addams Family

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 13, 2010 @ 7:22am PDTTags: Adam Fogelson, Animation, Chris Meledandri, David Linde, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Despicable Me Box Office, Hop, Illumination Entertainment, Jeff Zucker, Marc Shmuger, NBC Universal, Ron Meyer, Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Chris Meledandri
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Film Review Despicable MeEXCLUSIVE: Three years ago, Universal Pictures brass wooed Chris Meledandri away from his president post at Fox Animation to start its first family film unit. Over the weekend, Illumination’s first effort, Despicable Me, nearly doubled … Read More »

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IT’S GOOD TO BE BAD! ‘Despicable Me 3D’ Doubles Expectations For $60.1M Weekend; R-Rated ‘Predators’ On Target With $25.3M; ‘Eclipse’ Global Cume Now $456M; See How This Hollywood Summer Is Doing Overseas

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday July 11, 2010 @ 1:30pm PDTTags: Animation, Box Office, Despicable Me, Despicable Me Box Office, Despicable Me Steve Carell, Eclipse, Predators, Robert Rodriguez, Summer Movies, Summit Entertainment, The Last Airbender Box Office, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Box Office, Theaters, Toy Story 3, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures

SUNDAY AM: It was a great weekend at the box office with the total tally $202M, up an impressive +41.4% from last year. And that doesn’t factor in next week which features the most anticipated movie of the summer, Chris Nolan’s Inception. Year to date, 2010 revenues are running $5.9M, that up 5.06% … Read More »

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