12. Despicable Me 3 (2017)
Worldwide gross: $1,034,800,131
Children’s movies tend to bring in a lot of money–mainly because parents have to come along and buy tickets too–and they have a much longer shelf life running in theaters. Because of this, the third movie in the Despicable Me franchise made over a billion. It’s not the highest-grossing movie in the Despicable Me world, as that goes to Minions, which raked in $1.159 billion. However, considering how much kids love the minions, that movie hitting a billion wasn’t a surprise.


