\n\tGru\u2019s yellow, overall-wearing sidekicks have a new trailer out for the third film in their franchise, Minions.<\/p>\n
\n\tOriginally slated for June 30, 2027, the animated film was moved up to July 1, 2026 alongside Shrek 5<\/a>, which will land in theaters Dec. 23, 2026.<\/p>\n \n\tA clip aired during Super Bowl LX along with a minion running up to the camera and passing out, out of breath from exertion. This is the first viewers are getting of plot details regarding the third Minions film, which has been titled Minions & Monsters.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the trailer, things get meta with the creatures acting in a movie and taking their battle scene too far when they actually attack and bite the warrior actors.<\/p>\n \n\tMinions, which came out in 2015, featured the voices of Sandra Bullock as inventor villain Scarlet Overkill and Jon Hamm as her husband Herb Overkill. Still other voices included Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan and Jennifer Saunders alongside Steve Carell as Gru and Pierre Coffin as The Minions. Minions: The Rise of Gru featured a groovy soundtrack in addition to the voices of Alan Arkin, Taraji P. Henson, Michelle Yeoh, Julie Andrews, Russell Brand, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo, Jimmy O. Yang and more.<\/p>\n \n\tMinions 3<\/a>\u00a0is written by Brian Lynch (Minions,\u00a0The Secret Life of Pets\u00a0films) and directed by Academy Award\u00a0nominee Pierre Coffin, the filmmmaker behind the first three\u00a0Despicable Me\u00a0films and the first\u00a0Minions\u00a0film. Coffin has also provided the voice for the Minions since their film debut in 2010. The film will be produced by\u00a0Illumination<\/a>\u2019s founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and by Bill Ryan (EP,\u00a0The Super Mario Bros. Movie).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gru\u2019s yellow, overall-wearing sidekicks have a new trailer out for the third film in their franchise, Minions. Originally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,89085,154898,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-274634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-illumination","10":"tag-minions-3","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}