Claim: Despicable Me was animated by a studio headquartered in London.
Evidence: Despicable Me is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated comedy film from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment that was released on July 9 , 2010 in the United States.
Illumination Entertainment is an American animation film production company , founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007.
It is owned by Meledandri and Universal Studios , a division of NBCUniversal , with Universal fully financing and owning all the films.
Universal Pictures -LRB- also referred to as Universal Studios or simply Universal -RRB- is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.
Its studios are located in Universal City , California , and its corporate offices are located in New York City.