Who owns Illumination?
Illumination is an American computer animation studio, Illumination has produced 12 feature films, with an average gross of $695.4 million per film. The studio’s highest-grossing films are Minions ($1.159 billion) and Despicable Me 3 ($1.034 billion). Both films are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, and six of their films are among the…
Illumination is an American computer animation studio, Illumination has produced 12 feature films, with an average gross of $695.4 million per film. The studio’s highest-grossing films are Minions ($1.159 billion) and Despicable Me 3 ($1.034 billion). Both films are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, and six of their films are among the 50 highest-grossing animated films.
Who owns Illumination?
Illumination’s films have a budget between $60–80 million. 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 the creator of 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.
The studio’s first film, Despicable Me, directed by Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin, was released on July 9, 2010, and was commercially successful, earning $56 million on its opening weekend, and going on to ticket sales of $251 million domestically and $543 million worldwide.
