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Illumination and Universal's Despicable Me 4 handily crossed the six-century mark at the global box office this week, now with $632M through Thursday. The latest in the series has pushed the worldwide running total for the Despicable Me/Minions franchise to $5.3B, overtaking Transformers ($5.295B) and the…

There's joy in toon town today as Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2 has become the highest-grossing animated movie ever at the worldwide box office. With $1,462.8M through Tuesday, the sequel has surpassed Disney Animation Studios' Frozen II ($1.454B). Disney has seven of the Top 10 animated movies ever…

Baltasar Kormákur was in a reflective mood at the Taormina Film Festival, where his romantic drama Touch had its Italian premiere this past week. The Icelandic filmmaker compared Touch to his first feature, 2000's 101 Reykjavik. The former was "a black comedy about love," while Touch is "a way more…

UPDATE: Universal/Warner Bros/Amblin's Twisters positively blasted past forecasts domestically this session. While the international box office result is pretty close to where we saw it coming in, there's no denying this is much more of a domestic play.  The global cume, largely boosted by domestic's…

UPDATED: Animation domination continues at the global and international box office with Universal/Illumination's Despicable Me 4 leading the pack this frame, and Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2 still positively on fire after five sessions. At the same time, we're seeing encouraging numbers for all major…

As Illumination/Universal's Despicable Me 4 continues global rollout, and with its Friday numbers included, the latest from Gru and the gang has helped propel the Despicable Me/Minions franchise across the $5B mark (to $5.025B through Friday) at the worldwide box office. This makes it the first animated…

As it continues its mind-blowing trajectory, and with Tuesday's receipts now included, Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2 has become the highest-grossing Pixar movie of all time at the worldwide box office. On Tuesday, it passed Pixar’s Incredibles 2 ($1.243B) to get to this latest milestone. The running global…

UPDATED: The global and international box office were extra animated this weekend with the expansion of Illumination/Universal's Despicable Me 4 to domestic as well as another 52 overseas markets. At the same time, Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2 continues to jump for joy having reached $1,216.9M globally…

Making the most of the fact that Deadpool & Wolverine is the first original film of the franchise to land a China release date, stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, along with director Shawn Levy, appear to have had a grand time promoting the Disney/Marvel pic in Shanghai this week. During the trip…

The 39th edition of France's reduced-price movie ticket scheme, La Fête du Cinéma, has blasted through all previous records with 4.65 million admissions across the four-day event. The promotion sees movie tickets discounted to 5 euros each for all showings in participating cinemas (excluding premiums for…

UPDATED: Paramount's A Quiet Place: Day One not only set a domestic opening record for the franchise, it also did it at the international box office. Of the $98.5M global start, $45.5M is from 59 overseas markets, well exceeding expectations. Overall, on a like-for-like basis, the offshore result on A…

UPDATED: There's joy all around as Disney/Pixar's Inside Out 2 has crossed the coveted $1B milestone at the worldwide box office. With $1,014.8B through 19 days, this is the quickest time to the mark for an animated movie ever, besting the previous record holder, Frozen 2, which got there in 25. Only 11…