When Illumination was established in 2007, no one would have expected that the company would become an animation giant in its ...

Since its founding in 2007, Illumination has proved itself as one of the leading animation studios in the industry today. While most well-known for the Despicable Me and Minions franchises ...

In order to bulk up Disney+, Disney leaned hard on its animation studios — Pixar and Walt ... (including the animated features produced by Illumination), that agreement doesn’t extend to ...

Universal also has the animation studio Illumination under its banner. DWA and Illumination (think “Minions” and “Despicable Me”) mostly operate separately, with “Shrek” as the one crossover. In her ...