'Despicable Me' Films Are Highest Grossing Animated Franchise Of All Time!

'Despicable Me' Films Are Highest Grossing Animated Franchise Of All Time!

The Despicable Me franchise is officially king!

Over the weekend, the franchise surpassed the Shrek franchise as the highest grossing animated franchise of all time at the box office, Deadline reports.

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The franchise — which includes Despicable Me 1-3, and Minions, hit the $3.528B mark topping Shrek‘s at $3.51B global — pretty cool!

The films started with evil villain Gru (Steve Carell), who uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme. However, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better.

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