Tag: Illumination
‘Ant-Man’ Proves Small Heroes Can Earn Big Bucks
Ant-Man proved anything but diminutive at the box office this weekend, opening with a $58 million weekend opening gross that was only slightly under...
‘Minions’ Scores $115 Million Debut Weekend
They may just be little yellow henchmen, but Illumination's Minions dominated its U.S. theatrical debut weekend with more than $115 million in tickets sold.
That...
Illumination Names ‘Pets,’ Sets July 2016 release
Illumination has titled and moved back the release date for its 2016 animated feature about pets.
Now known as The Secret Life of Pets, the...
Toons Tackle Ice Bucket Challenge
The animated contributions to the ALS Association's viral Ice Bucket Challenge campaign to raise awareness and funds to fight the disease continue to trickle...
Penguins of Madagascar Accept ALS Ice Mission
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has taken over social media, and animation is getting in the spirit of the fund-raising fun.
Over on Facebook, the...
The Animated Movie Dossier
The past few years have seen familiar animated faces as well as franchise reboots and original concepts raking in the box office bucks, and...
‘Frozen,’ ‘Gravity’ Top BAFTA Awards
Frozen walked away with another cool honor this weekend, nabbing the BAFTA for Best Animated Film at a ceremony in London.
Directors Jennifer Lee and...
Illumination Sets 2017 Dates for ‘Despicable 3,’ ‘Grinch’
Gru will be back — but not until 2017.
Universal Pictures has set June 30, 2017, as the release date for Illumination Entertainment's Despicable Me...
Five Animated Pics Nominated for Academy Awards
This morning (Jan. 16), the nominations for the 86th Annual Academy Awards were announced at a news conference at the Samuel Goldwyn theater in...
Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Wins Golden Globe for Best Animated Pic
Disney's Frozen won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, beating DreamWorks' The Croods and Universal/Illumination's Despicable Me 2 at the awards ceremony on...
Animated Titles Dominated 2013 Global Box Office
The animation community got some great news as the final numbers for the 2013 box office came out. Universal/Illumination's Despicable Me 2 ($393.5 million),...
‘Despicable Me 2’ Blu-ray Breaks Animation Sales Records
It definitely seems that audiences can't get enough of Gru and his hard-working Minions. The newly released Universal/Illumination movie Despicable Me 2 generated $80...
Three Toons to Vie for Golden Globe
The nominees for the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards have been unveiled, and Toon Town seems a bit under-represented considering all the great flicks...
ASIFA Unveils List of 41st Annie Awards Nominees
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 41st Annual Annie Awards. In the Best Animated Feature category, 2D is...
‘Room on the Broom,’ ‘Adventure Time’ Win BAFTAs
BBC's acclaimed TV special Room on the Broom, Cartoon Network's Adventure Time and BBC/Aarmdan's Timmy Time were among the top TV winners at last...
‘The Croods’ Is First DVD Mailed to Voters
The team at Fox/DreamWorks are hoping that being the first studio to send out their DVD screeners to Academy members will get them a...
It’s WAY Too Early to Predict the Oscar Animation Race!
Yes, it's absurd to start talking about the Oscar race even before Labor Day weekend has arrived, but The Hollywood Reporter has jumped the...
‘Despicable Me 2’ Crosses $800 Mil. Milestone
Universal/Illumination's huge blockbuster movie Despicable Me 2 had another record-breaking weekend at the box office worldwide as its cume crossed the $800 million barrier....
‘Despicable Me 2’ Sets New B.O. Records in the U.K.
Universal/Illumination's blockbuster sequel Despicable Me 2 is now the highest-grossing film of 2013 in the U.K. Universal Pictures International told The Hollywood Reporter that...
‘Planes’ Lands at No. 3 as Auds Visit ‘Elysium’
Although the overall box office numbers are still not impressive, North American audiences chose to seek out Elysium, Neill Blomkamp's follow-up to the acclaimed...
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