Tag: Illumination
Final Trailer: ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Is Ready to Play!
Nintendo icon Mario gets an epic power up in the new, final trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie unlocked by Universal Pictures and Illumination...
‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Directors Detail Their High-Stakes Mushroom Kingdom Adventure
Plumbing the depths of gaming nostalgia in a candy-colored CG landscape, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is joyously sprinting toward a spring theatrical release...
‘Super Mario Bros. Movie,’ ‘PAW Patrol’ Race to Earlier Release Dates
Universal Pictures is sending Illumination's eagerly awaited video game adaptation The Super Mario Bros. Movie down the pipes a little early this spring, bumping the...
Nielsen Pins ‘Encanto’ at Top of Very Animated Most-Streamed List for 2022
Last year's runaway awards season favorite Encanto has added another accolade to its long list, topping the Nielsen chart of 2022's most-watched streaming movies. Directed...
‘Avatar,’ ‘Puss in Boots’ Sequels Top New Year’s B.O; Illumination’s ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ is 2022’s Animation Champion
Blue-faced aliens and a familiar dashing feline were the big box office champs over the long new year’s weekend. James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way...
Fishing for Enlightenment in Momo Wang’s ‘Penglai’
Momo Wang, who is best known as the creator of the popular bunny character Tuzki and as an animator/creative director at Illumination Entertainment, is...
Your 2023 Academy Awards Animated Feature Dossier
***This feature originally appeared in the December '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 325)***
Which animated features are going for Oscar gold on March 13,...
Netflix Expands Animation Leadership with Billy Wee, Maggie Malone, Jermaine Turner
In the wake of Mike Moon's departure as Director of Adult Animation earlier this summer, Netflix is bolstering its animation team by welcoming onboard...
Mike Moon Launches Adult Animation Label Moonlight at Illumination
Netflix, Sony and Disney veteran Mike Moon is launching his own adult animation label at Illumination Entertain. Moon will be the president of the...
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...
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