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'Minions' party: Billion at box office

Bryan Alexander
USA TODAY
The Minions

The Minions have one billion reasons to celebrate. And we know the little yellow guys like to party.

Illumination Entertainment's animated hit Minions crossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office Thursday night.

That's billion with a "b." Like the Minions' beloved bananas.

Grosses for the animated film hit $682 million internationally and $321.9 million in North America, according to a release from distributor Universal, sent out on Friday,

Minions is now the third-highest-grossing animated film of all time and the 23rd highest grossing film of all time.

Featuring the voices of Sandra Bullock and Jon Hamm, as a super-villain couple in the swinging 1960s, Minions opened No. 1 in the U.S. with $115 million on July 10.

It is Universal's highest-grossing film of all time in seven territories; France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and Slovakia. It has has crossed $200 million in Latin America to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time in that region.

The damage is not done.

Minions has three markets still to open in addition to Italy's release today: Turkey (Sept. 4), China (Sept. 13) and Greece (Sept. 24).

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