Minions tops $1B Global Box Office

With Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment's Minions having reached $990.2M globally last weekend, this milestone was to be expected.

The little yellow fellows have now crossed $1B worldwide, making the Kyle Balda/Pierre Coffin helmed movie the third-highest-grossing animated film of all time. It also sets another industry record for Universal: It is the first time any studio has had three films cross the $1B mark at the worldwide box office in a single year.

The Despicable Me spinoff joins Furious 7 and Jurassic World in that rarefied air. The second installment of the original series, Despicable Me 2, just missed the $1B mark in 2013 with about $971M.