“Despicable Me 4” Expected to Top $200 Million Worldwide by Sunday
The Minions are back and Maxime Le Mal is the newest villain to cause mayhem in Illumination’s “Despicable Me 4,” directed by Patrick Delage and Chris Renaud.
Despicable Me 4 is looking to gross $28 million on Wednesday, which is high enough for the film to reach an estimated $120 million over its first five days through Sunday. That’s where the following grew, and it’s a number that underscores the growing nature of today’s box office as event films fill the schedule in the wake of Hollywood’s double strikes. The collection from Friday to Sunday for Despicable Me 4 amounts to 70 million dollars.
Despicable Me 4 will also arrive in 52 foreign markets this weekend, including Mexico, Spain and Brazil. The film already has around $25 million at the international box office, and the cumulative global total is expected to be around $200 million by Sunday.
Movie plot
Gru’s family has grown substantially since the first Despicable Me, and this film introduces the newest member of his family: Gru Jr., the newborn son of a former supervillain and his wife, Lucy (Kristen Wiig). A recurring joke is that Junior is not very fond of his father, although Gru does everything possible to win over the baby.
However, the domestic bliss is quickly interrupted by Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrell), one of Gru’s former classmates who escaped from prison and comes looking for Gru. Our hero must pack his bags with his family and move to a safe house, where they will be given new identities. Also read – ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ Director Talks to Eddie Murphy and How to Make an ’80s-Style Action Movie
Why you should watch ‘Despicable Me 4’?
The film sprawls noisily in too many directions, largely loses any meaningful charm or heart, and struggles to maintain coherence around a central story with real stakes. It extends a problem in the franchise that began with the third film, which relied more on gimmicky storytelling, visual pyrotechnics, and empty antics to keep things afloat.
There’s still occasional fun and a budget that’s clearly being used, but it seems like we’re mainly here to maintain Minion’s cash cow. In all the chaos, your mind may remember the better, simpler days of the first movie the company released, when it was just a story of a bad guy turning good, but a genuine story nonetheless.
Will Ferrell jokes that he’s being “typecast” as a villain after his bad boy roles in “Despicable Me 4” and “Barbie.”
Will Ferrell voices the French supervillain who escapes from prison, prompting Gru (Steve Carell) and his family Lucy, Margo, Edith, Agnes and a new addition, Gru Jr., to go on the run.
Ferrell, while speaking to Variety at the New York premiere, said that [“Despicable Me 4″] was an opportunity where I was introduced to the villain character, this French villain, Maxime, and that’s all I needed to hear. ‘French’ and ‘bad boy’.”
“Now I’m getting typecast,” Ferrell joked about his role as Maxime after his turn as the villainous Mattel CEO in last year’s “Barbie.” “It’s always fun to be bad, in a silly way. And I think it’s just a side of you that you can’t express… it’s fun to play with the voice and it’s a little tribute to the Pink Panther,” he continued.
Despicable Me is a highly successful franchise
The six films in the “Despicable Me” franchise have grossed more than $4 billion at the global box office since the first film was released 14 years ago.
The 2017 film “Despicable Me 3” made history upon its release, surpassing the $1 billion mark worldwide and surpassing the “Shrek” series as the highest-grossing animated film franchise.
“Minions: The Rise of Gru” was also a hit, achieving the biggest domestic opening for an animated film since 2019’s “Frozen 2” at the time of its release, representing a “huge rebound for family fare after the “lockdowns due to the COVID-19 Pandemic”,