{"id":652128,"date":"2026-06-22T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652128\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:16:12","slug":"illumination-confirms-sing-3-secret-life-of-pets-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652128\/","title":{"rendered":"Illumination Confirms &#8220;Sing 3,&#8221; &#8220;Secret Life of Pets 3&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/illumination-confirms-sing-3-secret-life-of-pets-3.jpg\" data-caption=\"Universal Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/illumination-confirms-sing-3-secret-life-of-pets-3.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"illumination-confirms-sing-3-secret-life-of-pets-3\"\/><\/a>Universal Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Illumination, the animation studio behind the \u201cSuper Mario\u201d and \u201cDespicable Me\u201d movie franchises, has finally confirmed two three-quels are on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of \u201cMinions &amp; Monsters\u201d hitting screens next week, Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri has confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/super-mario-movie-3-illumination-nintendo-projects-sing-3-secret-life-of-pets-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collider<\/a> that both \u201cSing 3\u201d and \u201cThe Secret Life of Pets 3\u201d are in development at the company.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with the outlet, he says the studio has been developing a third \u201cThe Secret Life of Pets\u201d film for a while, saying \u201cit took us a while to come back to Pets, waiting for an idea that we felt really would earn its place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They did though, and he confirms Chris Renaud will return to direct.  As for where the project stands, he says: \u201cWe are well underway, working hard on an idea that I\u2019m hoping that we\u2019ll make soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the third \u201cSing\u201d film, it continues to progress at the studio. Writer-director Garth Jennings will return to lead creative development on the film and \u201cis focusing all of his energy right now with the team at Illumination.\u201d  He says the movie will introduce \u201csome entirely new ideas into the story\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the two projects overall in the company\u2019s slate, he says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are clearly two movies that not only do I love, but the filmmakers love them. Both Sing and Pets are getting a tremendous amount of attention inside the studio.  I expect we\u2019ll have some announcements to make about both of them relatively soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also indicates the studio currently has its slate mapped out through 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Pictures Illumination, the animation studio behind the \u201cSuper Mario\u201d and \u201cDespicable Me\u201d movie franchises, has finally confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-652128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}