Director
Chris RenaudFollow
5 films•2010–2024•Animation · Comedy · Adventure
Avg critics65%
Avg audience78%
Avg domestic$271.0M
Domestic
$1.36B
Lifetime
Worldwide
$3.30B
Lifetime
Avg opening
$66.4M
3-day
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Despicable Me 2 | 2013 | $83.5M | $368.1M | 4.41x | $975.2M | A | 75% | #4 |
 Despicable Me 4 | 2024 | $75.0M | $361.0M | 4.80x | $986.7M | A | 55% | #5 |
 Despicable Me | 2010 | $56.4M | $252.8M | 4.48x | $544.7M | A | 80% | #7 |
 The Lorax | 2012 | $70.2M | $214.0M | 3.05x | $349.0M | A | 54% | #11 |
 The Secret Life of Pets 2 | 2019 | $46.7M | $159.2M | 3.41x | $446.4M | A− | 60% | #18 |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
0$250M$500M$750M$1B
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 3.5 years
Profitability
Return on budget
8.4x
$3.30B worldwide on $395.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs international split
Domestic $1.36BInternational $1.95B
Return by film
Worldwide ÷ budget0x2.5x breakeven12.8x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget, and streaming releases with no real theatrical run, are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records#6Biggest July 4th openingsDespicable Me 2$83.5M#8Biggest July 4th openingsDespicable Me 4$75.0M#15Best multipliersDespicable Me 44.81x#16Biggest March openingsThe Lorax$70.2M#19Biggest animated openingsDespicable Me 2$83.5M#19Biggest animated filmsDespicable Me 2$368.1M#20Biggest animated filmsDespicable Me 4$361.0M
7 placings across 5 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full scheduleNo upcoming movies announced yet.
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Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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