“Despicable Me” will have a sequel
The first pancake, released by a new animation studio Illumination Entertainment under the direction of Chris Meledandri, is far not lumpy. "Despicable Me" earned in the first rolling weekend 56 million dollars only at home, so do not be surprised: continuing adventures of villain Gru are already in development. Three years ago, Universal Studios bosses persuaded Chris Meledandri leave the post of President of 20th Century Fox Animation and set up his own studio to produce cartoons. Thus, under the wing of Universal has been Illumination Entertainment, through which the studio was able to snatch a piece of cake in a large market family films.
Writers of "Despicable Me" Cinco Paul and Ken Dauria are already working on a sequel. But not only will the history of Gru continue. Cute villain henchmen - Yellow giggling minions - will be the heroes of two separate short films.
In addition, the Illumination has a lot of other plans. 1 April 2011 the film "Hope" - where Russell Brand announced the Easter bunny. The cartoon will be a combination of feature films and animation. Then in the spring of 2012 will followed by a second screen adaptation of Dr. Syuss book "The Lorax". Illumination plans to introduce the world strange creatures by Ricky Jeyrveys took off on his cartoon book series Flanimals. The studio also involved in the development of the film "Where's Waldo?" and the animated version of "The Addams Family" by Tim Burton.
Illumination is going to increase the number of projects produced from one to two or three a year over the next few years.
Founder of Illumination Chris Meledandri accidentally got into the business of producing a family film. In his producer filmography can be found a number of feature films intended for adult audiences like "Swingers" with Christian Bale. The former head of Fox, Bill Mikenik nominated Meledandri to head of the animation studio, which resulted in the release of film "Titan: A.E." and "Anastasia." After Fox Animation has released "Ice Age", the name Meledandri finally became established in connection with a family cinema.