Tag: Illumination
Animation Is Film: ‘Wendell & Wild’ Opens 2022 Festival Edition
Animation Is Film (AIF), whose mission is to champion animation as a cinematic artform on par with live action, has unveiled its competition line-up, special...
‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ Spreads Villainous Joy to Peacock Sept. 23
Peacock has announced Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru will begin streaming exclusively on the platform September 23. Reaching No. 1 on the year's...
Bring Home the Year’s No. 1 Animated Movie ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’
The biggest global animated franchise in history adds an all-new laugh-out-loud gru-vy movie in Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, available to own with over...
Cinesite Takes Majority Stake in ‘Cracké’ Studio Squeeze
Animation & VFX studio Cinesite, which has recently marked its 30th anniversary, has announced it’s acquired a majority stake in animation & motion-capture studio...
‘DC League of Super-Pets’ Earns a $23M Box Office Treat
The furred, hooved and shelled heroes of DC League of Super-Pets proved their mettle in spite of the summer box-office slowdown, as the Warner Bros....
‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ Becomes First $300M Toon Since COVID
Illumination and Universal Picture's fan-favorite fiends have accomplished another milestone! Minions: The Rise of Gru has become the first animated feature to lure enough...
Illumination’s ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ Melts 4th-of-July B.O. Records
C’est bananas! Universal/Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru proved to be a big triumph at the box office with a four-day opening record of $125.1...
News Bytes: Marcel the Shell’s Movie Etiquette, Universal Bumps ‘Migration’, New ‘Paws of Fury’ Clips & More
Cinema's most adorable mollusk is lending an extra special touch to Alamo Drafthouse screenings of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On , with the Jenny Slate...
Illumination’s Chris Meledandri on ‘Minions,’ Chris Pratt and the Toon Climate
Illumination founder and producer of the upcoming Minions: The Rise of Gru discussed his new movie, the importance of theatrical releases, and whether audiences...
Universal Pushes Back ‘Puss in Boots,’ ‘Super Mario’ Release Dates
Shrek's swashbuckling Cat-anova will be milking a few more months out of his ninth life, with Universal Pictures pushing the release date for Puss in...
Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards Honor ‘Encanto,’ ‘SpongeBob’ in Slimerrific Ceremony
Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2022 was an epic night filled with a record-breaking 1,000 slimings on Saturday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. (ET/PT), live...
Three Cheers for Mini Boss! New ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ Trailer, Poster Arrive
This summer, from the biggest global animated franchise in history, comes the origin story of how the world’s greatest supervillain first met his iconic...
‘We the People’ Wins NAACP Award for Best Animated Show
Netflix’s animated civics-lesson themed series We The People won the NAACP Image Award for Best Animated Series last night. The NAACP Image Awards organization...
Illumination/Universal Set Dates for ‘Migration’ and ‘Despicable 4’
Illumination and Universal have announced their release dates for their upcoming animated movies Migration (June 30, 2023) and Despicable Me 4 (July 23, 2024).
Migration...
Producers Guild and ACE Announce 2022 Nominees
Awards season rolls on! Today, both the PGA and ACE award nominees were announced, perfectly mirroring the animated feature category picks for the Art...
Paramount Animation Picks Up Mel Brooks-Inspired ‘Blazing Samurai’
The star-studded animated comedy feature Blazing Samurai has found a home with Paramount Animation, which has picked up rights from GFM Animation for North...
People on the Move: New Paramount/Nick Toon Execs, Distinguished Honorees & More
Ramsey Naito, President of Animation for Paramount and Nickelodeon, announced today two new creative leadership positions across both animation film and series divisions, both...
Stuff We Love: A Li’l Post-Holiday Retail Therapy
Back in a Snap: Everyone's favorite spooky family is back in a cursed cross-country adventure! MGM and BRON Creative's The Addams Family 2 finds...
‘Sing 2’ Serenades Audiences as Top-Grossing Toon of the Pandemic
Illumination has scored another franchise box-office hit in spite of Omicron spikes, as Sing 2 continues to lure family audiences to the cinema with its...
‘Sing 2’ Takes to Streaming Stage in Vudu Family Movie Lineup
Starting this Friday, January 7, Sing 2, the new chapter in Illumination's smash animated franchise starring Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Taron Egerton...
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