It didn’t look possible last month, but Despicable Me 3, directed by Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin, is headed toward the $1 billion mark, and sometime next week will officially become just the 6th fully-animated film to achieve the distinction.

Despicable Me 3′s worldwide box office total now stands at $994 million. The film’s strong performance in countries that were on the backend of the release schedule, like Japan and Italy, is driving the film past the $1 billion milestone.

In Japan, the film remains in the top five after seven weeks of release, and has grossed over $60M to date, this year’s second-highest grossing film in that country after Disney’s hybrid remake of Beauty and the Beast.