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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Jul 11, 2010 4:00 AM UTC  Steve Carell voices Gru in Despicable Me Steve Carell voices Gru in Despicable MeUniversal Pictures by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Jul 11, 2010 4:00 AM UTC The world’s meanest meanie got a lot of love this weekend. Universal’s cartoon _Despicable Me_ — with Steve Carell voicing Gru, the mad scientist who tries to reclaim his title as No. 1 supervillain — earned an unexpectedly burly $60 million at the North American box office, according to early studio estimates. The 3-D feature led a 3-D weekend when nearly every film, major and indie, stole the moon. This could be the first domestic weekend ever in which six movies took in more than $15 million each. The third of the summer’s animated features, after _Shrek Forever Ever_ and _Toy Story 3_, and the first that isn’t a sequel, _D-Me_ attracted a huge kid audience: 55% of those attending were children under 13 and their parents. The film appealed to some crabby adults as well — it pulled an 80% rating on the review website Rotten Tomatoes — and won a straight A from CinemaScore’s poll of exiting moviegoers. For flop-plagued Universal, which hadn’t enjoyed an unequivocal hit since _Fast and Furious_ 15 months ago, _D-Me_ was a thrifty winner; its $69 million budget was only about a third of _Toy Story 3_‘s. With this successful launch of its new animation house, the company can now plan on competing with Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks and Fox. [(See Richard Corliss’s review of _Despicable Me_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2002645,00.html) In all the plexes, business was booming, up about 40% from the same July weekend last year (when, granted, the big debut film was Sacha Baron Cohen’s ill-received _Brüno_, one of Universal’s misfires). Except for the widely derided fantasy epic _The Last Airbender_, which dropped 57.5% from last weekend but still should cross the $100 million mark in its first 11 days, all the leading movies held on to most of their audience. _The Twilight Saga: Eclipse_ saw a 48.5% dip — not bad, considering its mammoth opening frame — and after 12 days is closing in on the quarter-billion-dollar threshold. _Toy Story 3_, even with _D-Me_‘s baby-drain effect, was down a wee 27.3%; it has amassed $340 million at home, topping _Finding Nemo_ as Pixar’s all-time domestic moneymaker, and $213 million abroad. The securest hold was Adam Sandler’s: his _Grown Ups_ fell a negligible 14%. [(See the 100 best movies of all time.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1953094,00.html) The weekend’s other wide release, _Predators_, came in third. The $25.3 million tally meant sturdy results for another frugal production: Robert Rodriguez’s spiff-up of the old Arnold Schwarzenegger jungle-monster franchise cost only $40 million to produce. That smart investment for Fox was matched by returns from _Cyrus_, the shambling comedy with nice guy John C. Reilly as crazy guy Jonah Hill’s potential stepdad. Expanding to 200 screens in its third week, _Cyrus_ cadged $1.4 million and broke into the top 10\. _Cyrus_ wasn’t the only hit in the nano-world of indie movies. _The Girl Who Played with Fire_, the second of three Swedish adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium crime best sellers, finished 11th with $965,000 at 110 theaters — a wide first-week release for a foreign-language film, and the highest per-screen average ($8,773) among the top dozen finishers, except for _D-Me_ and _Predators_. But the indie gold star went to Focus Features’ _The Kids Are All Right_, another postnuclear-family comedy starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as gay lovers whose kids are about to meet their sperm donor, Mark Ruffalo. The picture earned $505,00, claiming the 13th spot on the box office chart while playing in only seven theaters, for a year-high per-screen average of $72,143\. That’s not despicable. That’s de-lovely. Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Despicable Me_, $60.1 million, first weekend 2\. _The Twilight Saga: Eclipse_, $33.4 million; $237 million, second week 3\. _Predators_, $25.3 million, first weekend 4\. _Toy Story 3_, $22 million; $340.2 million, fourth week 5\. _The Last Airbender_, $17.15 million; $100.2 million, second week 6\. _Grown Ups_, $16.4 million; $111.3 million, third week 7\. _Knight and Day_, $7.85 million; $61.9 million, third week 8\. _The Karate Kid_, $5.7 million; $164.6 million, fifth week 9\. _The A-Team_, $1.8 million; $74 million, fifth week 10\. _Cyrus_, $1.4 million; $3.5 million, third week **UPDATE:** Distributors must have got inebriated on the weekend’s good business; they overestimated the Sunday business for every one of the top 10 films. Universal’s claim of $60.1 million for _Despicable Me_, for example, was 6.5% higher than the final figure, reported Monday, of $56.4 million. Summit’s early number for _Eclipse_ was more than 5% above the actual take. And so on. Even the top indie films had their weekend revenue hyped: _The Girl Who Played With Fire_ actually earned $904,998, and _The Kids Are All Right_ took in $491,971\. Maybe people stayed home Sunday to watch the World Cup final; its viewership, 24.4 million, was more than the number of people who bought tickets Sunday to all movies. The actual weekend figures for the B.O. top 10 are: 1\. _Despicable Me_, $56.4 million 2\. _The Twilight Saga: Eclipse_, $31.7 million 3\. _Predators_, $24.8 million 4\. _Toy Story 3_, $21 million 5\. _The Last Airbender_, $16.6 million 6\. _Grown Ups_, $15.8 million 7\. _Knight & Day_, $7.7 million 8\. _The Karate Kid_, $5.4 million 9\. _The A-Team_, $1.75 million 10\. _Cyrus_, $1.3 million [See the best movies of the decade.](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1949837%5F1949237,00.html) [See pictures of movie costumes.](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1699703%5F1511794,00.html) Box Office: Despicable Me Is 3-Delirious ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910966/box-office-despicable-me-is-3-delirious/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910966/box-office-despicable-me-is-3-delirious/"},"headline":"Box Office: Despicable Me Is 3-Delirious","datePublished":"2010-07-11T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:17:19.967Z","description":"The world's meanest meanie got a lot of love this weekend. 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