The PG-rated “Despicable Me 3” grossed $75.4 million, according to studio estimates Sunday — in the widest North American release for any film to date, animated or live action: 4,529 screens. (This year, for the record, has also given us the widest release for a G-rated film: “Cars 3” on 4,256 screens; and the widest for an R-rated film: “Logan” on 4,071 screens.)

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Domestically, that puts the “Despicable Me” franchise at $1.03 billion over its four films since the summer of 2010 — trailing the “Shrek” juggernaut, which has amassed $1.42 billion over five films.

In North America, the Minions movies are ahead of such franchises as Toy Story ($883 million), Ice Age ($792 million), Alvin and the Chipmunks ($663 million), Cars ($556 million) and Kung Fu Panda ($524 million).

“Despicable Me 3” also performed well on foreign shores and has tallied $116 million overseas, with its openings in China, France and Germany still to come next week.

The “Despicable” franchise has grossed an eye-popping $2.87 billion worldwide, with none of the films reporting a production budget of more than $80 million — and all four movies tallying less than $300 million total in production costs.

So “Despicable Me 3,” which stars Steve Carell doing double vocal duty as villainous Gru and Dru, should perfectly set up the next step: