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Despicable Me 3

2017 PG 1h 44m Animation, Comedy, Family Universal / Illumination

Another wild ride. More minions.

Despicable Me 3 Box Office

Opening Weekend
$72.4M
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$264.6M
Final
Worldwide Total
$1,032.8M
$768.2M international
Domestic Legs3.65x
Budget$75M
2017 Rank#9
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Jun 30-Jul 2 1 $72.43M $72.43M 4,529 $16.0K 1
Jul 7-9 2 $33.58M -53.6% $148.77M 4,535 $7.4K 2
Jul 14-16 3 $19.36M -42.4% $188.40M 4,155 $4.7K 3
Jul 21-23 6 $13.01M -32.8% $213.62M 3,525 $3.7K 4
Jul 28-30 7 $7.59M -41.6% $230.29M 3,030 $2.5K 5
Aug 4-6 10 $5.43M -28.5% $240.92M 2,445 $2.2K 6
Aug 11-13 12 $3.13M -42.4% $247.74M 2,013 $1.6K 7
Aug 18-20 14 $2.07M -33.7% $251.77M 1,551 $1.3K 8
Aug 25-27 13 $1.75M -15.6% $254.60M 2,116 $827 9
Sep 1-3 8 $2.50M +42.9% $258.04M 2,132 $1.2K 10
Sep 8-10 11 $933K -62.7% $259.98M 1,274 $733 11
Sep 15-17 13 $857K -8.1% $261.09M 983 $872 12
Sep 22-24 17 $505K -41.1% $261.81M 539 $937 13
Sep 29-Oct 1 21 $366K -27.6% $262.27M 419 $873 14
Oct 6-8 18 $290K -20.8% $262.64M 304 $953 15
Oct 13-15 21 $245K -15.5% $263.02M 266 $920 16
Oct 20-22 23 $195K -20.4% $263.27M 337 $578 17
Oct 27-29 27 $171K -12.2% $263.49M 210 $814 18
Nov 3-5 31 $214K +25.2% $263.77M 194 $1.1K 19
Nov 10-12 30 $208K -2.7% $264.04M 195 $1.1K 20
Nov 17-19 29 $125K -40.0% $264.19M 172 $727 21
Nov 24-26 27 $118K -5.9% $264.39M 161 $731 22
Dec 1-3 37 $65K -44.9% $264.48M 152 $427 23
Dec 8-10 34 $50K -23.3% $264.54M 143 $348 24
Dec 15-17 31 $38K -23.1% $264.60M 109 $351 25

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

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Return on Budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byKyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, Eric Guillon
ScreenplayLarry Cohen, Ken Daurio
Produced byChris Meledandri, John Cohen
MusicHeitor Pereira & Pharrell Williams
StarringSteve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker, Peter Serafinowicz
StudioUniversal / Illumination

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