Despicable Me feature of all time in North America. In worldwide earnings, it is the sixth-biggest film of Universal Studios, the fourth-highest-grossing animated film of 2010 trailing "Toy Story 3", "Shrek Forever After", and "Tangled", the 25th-highest-grossing animated film of all time and the 9th-highest-grossing film of 2010. A sequel, titled "Despicable Me 2", was released on July 3, 2013. It is produced by the same team that was behind the first film along with directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud and writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. Steve Carell, Russell Brand, and Miranda Cosgrove reprise their roles; Kristen Wiig and Ken
Steve Carell his contract expired at the conclusion of the 20102011 season because he wanted to focus on his film career. His last episode as a main character, "Goodbye, Michael", aired April 28, 2011, with his final shot showing Carell walking to a Colorado-bound plane to join his fiancée, Holly Flax, in Boulder, Colorado. Although he was invited back for the series finale in 2013, Carell originally declined believing that it would go against his character's arc. Ultimately in the final version of the finale Carell reprised the role. Carell's first major film role was as weatherman Brick Tamland in the 2004