Illumination

Illumination (formerly known as Illumination Entertainment until 2017) is an American company created and founded by Chris Meledandri. The company is owned by Universal Pictures. They’re known for creating the Minions (which became an Illumination’s official mascot) characters from Despicable Me and Gru's henchmen known for their behavior, charisma, humor, love for bananas and unintelligible language.
==Content==
Illumination's content, like other film and movie companies, is to upload the trailers of their upcoming movies. And also put clips from their movies.
They have even made several Minions video games together with Gameloft for Android and iOS, with Minion Rush being the most popular.
==History==
Meledandri left as President of 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios in early 2007. While at those companies he supervised or executive-produced movies including Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Robots, and Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!. After leaving, he founded Illumination Entertainment and a deal was announced positioning Illumination Entertainment as NBC Universal's family entertainment arm, that would produce one to two films a year starting in 2010. As part of the deal, Illumination retains creative control and Universal Pictures exclusively distributes the films.
In 2011, Illumination acquired the animation department of the French animation and visual effects studio Mac Guff, which animated Despicable Me and Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, and formed Illumination Mac Guff (later Illumination Studios Paris).
==Movies==
Year	Name of the movie
2010	Despicable Me
2011	Hop
2012	Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
2013	Despicable Me 2
2015	Minions
2016	The Secret Life of Pets
2016	Sing
2017	Despicable Me 3
2018	Dr. Seuss' The Grinch
2019	The Secret Life of Pets 2
2021	Sing 2
2022	Minions: The Rise of Gru
2023	The Super Mario Bros. Movie
2023	Migration
2024	Despicable Me 4
2026	Untitled The Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel
2027	Minions 3
==Cast==
===The Super Mario Bros. Movie===
Character 	Voice actor
Mario 	
Princess Peach 	
Luigi 	
Bowser 	
Bowser 	(one growl and two roars only, archive)
Toad 	
Donkey Kong 	
Cranky Kong 	
Kamek 	
Foreman Spike 	
Lumalee 	
Toad General 	
Koopa Troopas 	
Dry Bones 	
Toad General 	
Diddy Kong 	
Koopa General 	
Penguin King 	
Mario and Luigi's mother 	
Yellow Toad 	
Plumbing Commercial Woman 	
Pauline 	
Baby Peach 	
Baby who bullies Baby Luigi	
Mario and Luigi's father 	
Giuseppe 	
Uncle Tony 	
Uncle Arthur 	
Some Toads 	(archive)
Shy Guy 	(archive)
Yoshi 	(archive)
==Other channels==
*Illumination UK - English
*Illumination AU - Australian
*Illumination France - French
*Illumination Germany - German
*Illumination Latam - Latin American Spanish
*Illumination Brasil - Brazilian Portuguese
*Illumination Italia - Italian
*Illumination Spain - Castilian Spanish
*IlluminationJP - Japanese
==Trivia==
*The language the Minions speak is a fictional language called "Minionese". It's derived from Indonesian, French, English, Italian, Spanish and Hindi languages.
*All of the Minions voices were made by only one person named Pierre Coffin, a French director and animator.
*The final trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie came out a day before Mario Day, March 10. Although in Japan it was released on the same day mentioned above due to time differences.
*On June 22nd, 2022, Illumination made a video called "The Office x Minions", which is the intro of the TV show of its same name but with Despicable Me characters (specially the Minions).
**Coincidentally, Gru is voiced by Steve Carell, who also portrayed Michael Scott in The Office.
*On February 12th, 2023, Illumination released "Super Mario Bros. Plumbing Commercial" which surprisingly it shows that song it's The Plumber Rap from "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!".
**However, the song on the commercial's French dub changed the lyrics from the original show.
**Also, the song on its German dub not only changed the lyrics, the instrumental from the original show isn't used too.
*The first trailer of Migration was released on the same day as the release date of The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
**That same trailer showed scenes from Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets, Dr. Seuss' The Grinch, Sing, Minions, Minions: The Rise of Gru and The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
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