Secret life of Pets pushes out over 100 million domestic on a meager 75 million budget! Pets breaks records!!!

[Chris Hu]

RJ_Sizzle said:

Zekkyou said:
Illumination seem to make all their films on a consistently small budget (relatively speaking). It's pretty impressive:

Despicable Me: $69 million
Hop: $63 million
The Lorax: $70 million
Despicable Me 2: $76 million
Minions: $74 million
The Secret Life of Pets: $75 million
Sing: $75 million

Universal/Illumination's films are done by a french studio named Mac Guff. Who always turn in a good looking animated film on a decent budget. Compared to their rivals who often get weighed down by production bloat. Not to mention wage fixing where the top brass come out like bandits while exploiting workers.

20th Century Fox's Blue Sky Studios also make animated movies on a relatively small budget but not quiet as low as Illumination.  The guy that started Illumination actually used to work for Fox and helped them aquire Blue Sky Studios.