Minions Clears $600M Benchmark At Worldwide Box Office

Universal and Illumination Entertainment's Minions now has a global box office total of $912.5M — $302.7M domestically and $609.8M internationally.

For 2015 films, Minions ranks fourth and easily the top-earning animated film of the year, Pixar's Inside Out trails it with a total of $635.5M.

More importantly, Minions is now ranked 35th at the all-time worldwide box office and is the 7th highest-grossing animated film ever.

The overseas total ($609.8M) for the Despicable Me spinoff film trumps 2013's Despicable Me 2, which earned $607.5M at the international box office.

Minions will continue to make its march toward a billion dollar payday as it is yet to open in Slovenia (August 13), Italy (August 27), Turkey (September 14), Greece (September 24) and China (September 13).

Minions are yellow henchmen, who have existed since the beginning of beginning, evolving from a yellow single-cell organisms into beings who have only one purpose: to serve the most ambitious villains. After their masters were destroyed, they decide to isolate themselves from the world and start a new life in Antarctica. Sometime in the 60s, the lack of a master drives them into depression, so bravest minion and two other volunteers set out to find a new one. They arrive at a villain convention, where they compete for the right to be henchmen for Scarlet Overkill, a stylish and ambitious villain determined to dominate the world and become the first female super-villain.