It’s all happened so fast.
“Despicable Me” — a romp about an awkward supervillain-turned-hero voiced by Steve Carell and supported by these goofy, little, yellow Minions from a new animation studio then called Illumination Entertainment — arrived less than 15 years ago.
Today, “Despicable Me” is a huge franchise, in fact the most successful animated empire in history, with $4.6 billion tallied up for what’s now called simply Illumination and its parent company, Universal Pictures.