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''Despicable Me'' is a computer-animated media franchise centering on Gru, a reformed super-villain (who later becomes a father, husband, and secret agent), and his yellow-colored Minions. It is produced by Illumination and distributed by its parent company Universal Pictures. The franchise began with the 2010 film of the same name, which was followed by two sequels, ''Despicable Me 2'' (2013) and ''Despicable Me 3'' (2017), with a future sequel, ''Despicable Me 4,'' expected in 2024; and by two spin-off prequels, '' Minions'' (2015) and '' Minions: The Rise of Gru'' (2022). The franchise also includes many short films, a television special, several video games, and a theme park attraction. It is the highest-grossing animated film franchise and the 15th highest-grossing film franchise of all time, having grossed over $4.4 billion globally. Feature films Main series ''Despicable Me'' (2010) Felonious Gru, a super-villain, adopts three girls, Margo, Edith, and Agnes, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Pablos
Sergio Pablos is a Spanish animator, director and screenwriter. While at the helm of his company (The SPA Studios), Pablos developed several concepts for animated feature films, most notably the original ideas upon which '' Despicable Me'' (Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment in 2010) and ''Smallfoot'' (produced by the Warner Animation Group in 2018) were based. Most recently, the SPA Studios has produced Netflix's first original animated feature film, ''Klaus'', written and directed by Pablos. Early life Sergio Pablos is from Barcelona. After working as a key animator on ''Once Upon a Forest'' (1993), he moved to Paris, France, to pursue a career opportunity at Walt Disney Animation Studios where he worked on ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1996) and ''Hercules'' (1997). Pablos was then promoted to a Supervising Animator position at Disney Feature Animation in Burbank, handling the character of Tantor the elephant on ''Tarzan'' (1999), and Dr. Doppler on ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Highest-grossing Animated Films
Included in the list are charts of the top box-office earners, a chart of high-grossing animated films by the calendar year, a timeline showing the transition of the highest-grossing animated film record, and a chart of the highest-grossing animated film franchises and series. All charts are ranked by international theatrical box office performance where possible, excluding income derived from home video, broadcasting rights and merchandise. Animated family films have performed consistently well at the box office, with Disney enjoying lucrative re-releases prior to the home video era with Walt Disney Animation Studios, who have produced films such as ''Aladdin'' and ''The Lion King'', both of which were the highest-grossing films of their respective years. Disney Animation also enjoyed later success with both '' Frozen'' and ''Frozen II'' in addition to Pixar, of which ''The Incredibles'' films, the ''Toy Story'' films, the ''Finding Nemo'' films, and '' Inside Out'' have been the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Balda
Kyle Balda (born March 9, 1971) is an American animator and film director, best known for co-directing the Illumination films ''The Lorax'' (2012), with Chris Renaud; '' Minions'' (2015), with Pierre Coffin; and '' Minions: The Rise of Gru'' (2022), with Brad Ableson and Jonathan del Val. He previously worked as an animator for Industrial Light & Magic before moving to Pixar where he worked on three of their films. Early life Balda was born in Tucson, Arizona, to a Maltese mother. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts in the early 1990s and dropped out after two years for a job he was offered. Career During his time at CalArts, Balda was hired by LucasArts as an intern to create the animated opening credit sequence for the graphic adventure game ''Day of the Tentacle''. He started his career as an animator by working at Industrial Light & Magic, in films including '' The Mask'' as graphics animator, ''Jumanji'' as animation supervisor, and ''Mars Attacks!'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Healy
Janet Healy is a film producer whose films include Illumination's ''Despicable Me'' animated series and other animated films by the studio. Career She worked with directors Stanley Kramer, Hal Ashby and Sam Peckinpah. Healy is a founder of the Visual Effects Society. She then joined George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic. In 1995, she joined Walt Disney Animation Studios. Healy is one of the producers of the ''Despicable Me'' franchise as well as other Illumination films including ''Sing'' (2016) and ''The Secret Life of Pets'' (2016). Beside that, she also produced ''Shark Tale'' (2004) for DreamWorks Animation DreamWorks Animation LLC (DWA, also known as DreamWorks Animation Studios and simply known as DreamWorks) is an American animation studio that produces animated films and television programs and is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division .... Filmography Films References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Healy, Janet 20th-century births Living p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinco Paul And Ken Daurio
Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio are American screenwriters. They are primarily known for writing screenplays for animated films, including '' Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who'', '' Despicable Me'', ''Dr. Seuss' The Lorax'', ''Despicable Me 2'', ''The Secret Life of Pets'' and ''Despicable Me 3''. Paul is also the creator, executive producer and songwriter for the 2021 Apple TV+ musical comedy series ''Schmigadoon!.'' Life and career Paul Paul was named after Cinco de Mayo, a celebration held on his birthday. After graduating from Yale University, Paul served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tokyo. Shortly after returning from his mission he married his girlfriend whom he had met at Yale and to whom he was engaged just before leaving on his mission. He then won a short film competition and received a fellowship at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he graduated in 1993 from the Graduate Screenwriting Program. The following year, he sold his first scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Coffin
Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin (born 16 March 1967) is a French animator, voice actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-directing four films in the ''Despicable Me'' franchise and being the voice of the Minions, which won him the Kids Family Award at the 10th Seiyu Awards. Life and career Coffin was born on 16 March 1967 in France to Yves Coffin, a French diplomat, and Nh. Dini, an Indonesian novelist. He has a sister, Marie-Claire. During his childhood, they often moved across Asia, living in Cambodia and Japan, before settling in a Parisian suburb in the 1970s. Growing up, their father forbade them watching television, considering it too passive. Instead, Coffin drew, read, and listened to music a lot. Although he never considered a career in arts, some talented friends, who were better than him at drawing, inspired him to improve his skills. Between 1985 and 1988, he studied cinema at the Paris-Sorbonne University. While attending his military service, he withd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Renaud
Chris Renaud (born December 1966) is an American film producer, director, illustrator, designer, animator, and voice actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for the 2006 animated short ''No Time for Nuts'', which featured the character Scrat from the computer-animated ''Ice Age'' films. His most popular work is the '' Despicable Me'' franchise, including '' Despicable Me'' and ''Despicable Me 2'', which he co-directed with Pierre Coffin. Along with Coffin, he also co-created and lent his voice to the Minions from ''Despicable Me''. Life and career Chris Renaud was born in 1966 in Baltimore. At age 15, he moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania when his father, who worked for Bethlehem Steel, was transferred to their corporate headquarters. Renaud has said he had mixed feelings with the move, saying it upset him but it was also one of the best things in his life because it showed him "that there was a great, big world out there". He was the artist for the high school yearbooks and n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minions (film) Yellow Logo
Places *Minions, Cornwall, a village in the United Kingdom People * Frank Minion (born 1929), American jazz and bop singer *Fred Minion, English professional footballer *Joseph Minion (born 1957), American film director and screenwriter *Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo, Indonesian badminton men's doubles pair often called "the Minions" Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters *Minion, the title character's best friend from the animated film ''Megamind'' *Minion, a character and vehicle from the video game series ''Twisted Metal'' *Minions, Blair Waldorf's followers at in the television show ''Gossip Girl'' *Minions, the creatures controlled by the player character in ''Overlord'' *Alexander Minion, a character from the movie ''Spy Kids'' *Maelstrom's Minions, Marvel Comics supervillains Gronk, Helio, and Phobius that work for Maelstrom * Minions, characters from the ''Despicable Me'' franchise. Films * ''Minions'' (film), a 2015 animated film based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomberg Businessweek
''Bloomberg Businessweek'', previously known as ''BusinessWeek'', is an American weekly business magazine published fifty times a year. Since 2009, the magazine is owned by New York City-based Bloomberg L.P. The magazine debuted in New York City in September 1929. Bloomberg Businessweek business magazines are located in the Bloomberg Tower, 731 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan in New York City and market magazines are located in the Citigroup Center, 153 East 53rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenue, Manhattan in New York City. History ''Businessweek'' was first published based in New York City in September 1929, weeks before the stock market crash of 1929. The magazine provided information and opinions on what was happening in the business world at the time. Early sections of the magazine included marketing, labor, finance, management and Washington Outlook, which made ''Businessweek'' one of the first publications to cover national political issues that directly impacted the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Meledandri
Christopher Meledandri (; born May 15, 1959) is an American film producer and founder and CEO of Illumination. He previously served as President of 20th Century Fox Animation, and has worked as the producer of the ''Despicable Me'' franchise and the ''Sing'' franchise. Early life Meledandri was born in New York City to Roland Meledandri, a men's fashion designer, and Risha Meledandri, an activist, growing up in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He attended Dartmouth College. Career Early career Meledandri's first job in the film industry came when he worked as an assistant to executive producer Daniel Melnick on the set of ''Footloose''. Meledandri afterwards was the producer for a series of small films, before working as a producer for the 1993 Disney film ''Cool Runnings'', which was a financial success. Soon after Meledandri was hired by 20th Century Fox, where executives presumed that the success of ''Cool Runnings'' showcased Meledandri's ability to produce financially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a metonymy, shorthand reference for the Cinema of the United States, U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was Merger (politics), consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, having developed first on the East Coast. Eventually it became the most recognizable in the world. History Initial development H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis (publisher), Harrison Gray Otis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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