Illumination (formerly Illumination Entertainment) is an American computer animation studio, founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007. Illumination is owned by Meledandri and the Illumination brand is co-owned by Universal Pictures, a division of Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. Meledandri produces the films, while Universal finances and distributes them. The studio is responsible for the Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets and Sing franchises and the film adaptations of Dr. Seuss’ books The Lorax and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, as well as film adaptations of Nintendo video games starting with The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The Minions, characters from the Despicable Me series, are the studio's mascots.
Illumination has produced 13 feature films, with an average gross of $695.4 million per film. The studio's highest-grossing films are The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($1.294 billion), Minions ($1.159 billion) and Despicable Me 3 ($1.034 billion). All three films are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all-time, and eight of their films are among the 50 highest-grossing animated films.
Film Series[]
- Despicable Me
- Minions
- The Secret Life of Pets
- Sing