And now this movie The Secret Life of Pets is on the top grossed film in this weekend leaving those both films behind. “Finding Dory” looks poised to soon become the highest-grossing animated movie of all time. Mike and Dave are headlined by a host of popular names in Zac Efron, Adam Devine, Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza, but those friendly faces were apparently not enough to do more than a 4th place worthy $16.6 million. Altogether, the top twelve grossed a stellar $206 million, up 13% from last weekend and about even with the same frame a year ago. And many believe the studio will set a new industry record and cross $7 billion in global box office revenue this year. (Also the Stanley Cup playoffs and National Basketball Association playoffs – insert joke here about the beastly behavior of pro athletes.) And you haven’t been able to step into a PetSmart or McDonald’s lately without seeing a “Pets” promotion. But that it did. Miranda will next star opposite Emily Blunt in Disney’s sequel to “Mary Poppins” and he wrote music for the upcoming “Moana”, an animated film featuring a Polynesian princess. The film was released on 8th July 2016 and collects a great response from the audience, as the trailer of the film was already got viral on various social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube and seriously loved by the audience.
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“Minions” was the third film in the “Despicable Me” franchise, which has grossed almost $2.7 billion worldwide ($1.03 billion adjusted). It has yet to have a box office miss-all six of its films have been (or, in the case of “Pets”, will be) profitable. And compared to Pixar, which usually spends about $200 million on its movies, Illumination makes its films for dirt cheap. And it’s on course to become the highest-grossing animated movie of all time and break the North American record now held by Shrek 2 ($436.7 million/GBP337.2 million). However, Disney’s ostensibly triumphant one-two punch might just be countered by Illumination Entertainment – Universal’s wholly owned in-house animation house – with the release of The Secret Life of Pets.
Playing on 4,370 screens, “Pets” enjoyed the widest release of any animated film in history. Now, with “Pets” easily topping projections, director Chris Renaud caps a remarkable decade by helping to deliver Illumination an entirely new universe to build sequels on, if not spin off of.
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Nick Carpou, who is the domestic distribution chief at Universal, was also cited as saying that the secret to the film is that it is not just for kids or families, but that it appeals to all ages and it resonates across the world and with the widest audience.
