Illumination

Illumination Entertainment is an American film and animation studio founded by Chris Meledandri in 1996. Illumination is a division owned by NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of its wholly owned by Comcast. Meledandri produces the films, while Universal finances and distributes all the films. The studio is responsible for the Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets and Sing franchises. The Minions, characters from the Despicable Me series, are the studio's mascots.
Illumination has produced 12 feature films, with its latest release being Sing 2, with an average gross of $695.4 million per film. The studio's highest-grossing films are Minions, which has grossed $1.159 billion worldwide, Despicable Me 3, $1.034 billion and Despicable Me 2, $970.8 million. All three are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, and six of their films are among the 50 highest-grossing animated films.
== Filmography ==
# 	Film 	Release date 	Distributor/Co-production with
1 	Despicable Me 	July 9, 2010 	Universal Pictures
2 	Hop 	April 1, 2011 	Universal Pictures
Relativity Media
3 	Despicable Me 2 	July 3, 2013 	Universal Pictures
4 	Minions 	July 10, 2015 	Universal Pictures
5 	The Secret Life of Pets 	July 8, 2016 	Universal Pictures
6 	Sing 	December 21, 2016	Universal Pictures
7 	Sahara 	12 May 2017 	Universal Pictures, StudioCanal, Transfilm International, La Station Animation, Mandarin Cinéma
8 	Despicable Me 3 	June 30, 2017 	Universal Pictures
9 	UglyDolls 	April 26, 2019 	Universal Pictures
10 	Pokémon: Detective Pikachu 	May 10, 2019 	Universal Pictures
Nintendo
11 	The Secret Life of Pets 2 	June 7, 2019 	Universal Pictures
12 	Arctic Dogs 	November 1, 2019 	Universal Pictures, Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, AMBI Media Group, AIC Studios, Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment
13 	Esque 	2020 	Universal Pictures
13 	Christmas Theivs 	November 5, 2021 	Universal Pictures, Fenix Entertainment, Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment
14 	Sing 2 	December 22, 2021	Universal Pictures
Upcoming	Upcoming 	Upcoming 	Upcoming
# 	Film 	Release date 	Distributor/Co-production with
15 	Minions: The Rise of Gru 	July 1, 2022 	Universal Pictures
16 	Untitled Mario film 	April 7, 2023 	Universal Pictures
Nintendo
17 	Migration 	June 30, 2023 	Universal Pictures
18 	Despicable Me 4 	July 3, 2024 	Universal Pictures
19 	Untitled The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Film	TBA 	Universal Pictures
Nintendo
20 	Pat & Stan: The Movie 	TBA 	Universal Pictures
Mac Guff