As slow as the summer box office season has been, it has finally produced a billion-dollar film: ?Despicable Me 3.? The latest installment of Illumination?s marquee franchise on Thursday joined ?Beauty and the Beast? and ?The Fate of the Furious? as the third film of 2017 to gross $1 billion worldwide, giving Universal two billion-dollar hits this year. Domestically, ?DM3? performed well, making $259 million since its release at the end of June.