{"id":610948,"date":"2026-04-28T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610948\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:02:08","slug":"illuminations-minions-monsters-to-open-annecy-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610948\/","title":{"rendered":"Illumination’s ‘Minions & Monsters’ To Open Annecy 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Illumination will return to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this June (a couple of weeks later<\/a> than normal) with a fest-opening screening of Minions & Monsters, extending a long-running relationship between the studio, the event, and its Paris-based production pipeline.<\/p>\n

The premiere underscores how closely Illumination\u2019s identity is tied to France. While the box-office behemoth\u2019s headquarters are in the U.S., the company\u2019s films are largely animated at Illumination Studios Paris, the rebranded successor to Mac Guff, which partnered with Illumination on 2010\u2019s Despicable Me and helped establish the Minions franchise.<\/p>\n

Since then, Annecy has served as a recurring launch platform for many of the studio\u2019s biggest titles, reinforcing both its European production roots and its position within the global animation industry. Annecy, the world\u2019s oldest and most prestigious animation-dedicated festival, has increasingly become a stage for major studio premieres alongside independent features, and now hosts titles from all the Hollywood majors.<\/p>\n

Minions & Monsters continues that pattern as the latest entry in Illumination\u2019s most commercially successful franchise, which has generated billions at the global box office and remains central to Universal Pictures\u2019 animation strategy.<\/p>\n

Minions & Monsters is directed by Academy Award nominee Pierre Coffin, a director of the first three Despicable Me films and the first Minions film. Coffin has also provided the voice for the Minions since their film debut in 2010. The film is written by Brian Lynch (Minions, The Secret Life of Pets films) and Pierre Coffin, and is produced by Illumination\u2019s founder and CEO, Chris Meledandri, and by Bill Ryan (executive producer, The Super Mario Bros. Movie).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illumination will return to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this June (a couple of weeks later than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-610948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}