Despicable ME (Franchise)

Despicable Me is a franchise created by Illumination Entertainment. It consists of the 2010 animated film Despicable ME and it's upcoming sequel, Despicable ME 2. Both movies centre on Gru, a super-villain; his yellow-coloured minions; and on three orphans, Margo, Edith, and Agnes.
==Feature Films==
===Despicable Me (2010)===
Despicable Me, the first film in the series, and the first film from Illumination Entertainment., was released on July 9th 2010. It was directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, based on an original story by Sergio Pablos. The film stars Steve Carell as Gru, Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, Dana Gaier as Edith, Elsie Fisher as Agnes, Jason Segel as Vector, Russell Brand as Dr. Nefario, and Julie Andrews as Marlena, Gru's mother. It tells a story of Gru, a super-villain who adopts three girls, Margo, Edith, and Agnes, from an orphanage to steal a shrink ray from Vector, his rival, to shrink and steal the Earth's moon. Despicable Me received positive reviews, and grossed over $543 million worldwide, against a budget of $69 million, launching a new franchise.
===Despicable Me 2 (2013)===
A sequel, titled Despicable Me 2, will be released on July 3rd 2013. It will be directed again by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, and Elsie Fisher are set to reprise their roles as Gru, Doctor Nefario, Margo, Edith and Agnes, respectively. Kristen Wiig, who voiced Miss Hattie in the original film, will voice Lucy Wilde, an agent of the Anti-Villain League who recruits Gru to take down a new villain. New cast members include Benjamin Bratt as Eduardo, the film's main antagonist; Bratt replaced the previously cast Al Pacino. Steve Coogan will voice Silas Ramsbottom, head of the Anti-Villain League (AVL).
Possible Third Film (TBA)
If all goes well with the second film, There might be a third Movie.
==Spin-Offs==
A spin-off feature film, featuring The Minions as the main characters, is scheduled to be released on December 19th 2014.[6] Written by Brian Lynch, it will be directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healey. Sandra Bullock will voice Scarlet Overkill, the villain of the film, titled Minions,[8] and Jon Hamm will voice her husband and inventor, Herb Overkill. The film will focus on the Minions, which are yellow henchmen who have existed since the beginning of time, serving history's most ambitious villains. Destroying all bad guys through their ineptitude, the story picks up in the 1960s, where three of the Minions set out to find a new evil master. Arriving at a villain convention, they compete for the right to be henchmen for Scarlet Overkill, a stylish and ambitious villain determined to dominate the world and become the first female super-villain.
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