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entertainment5 days ago•15 min saved

Minions Fatigue Hits U.S. Box Office as New Spin-off Starts Soft

IndieWire reports that Minions & Monsters opened to a franchise-low domestic $62M over the 5-day July 4 weekend, while global total nears $160.5M on an $85M budget; with the overall U.S. box office down about 23% year over year, competition from Toy Story 5 and possible audience fatigue may be weighing the film, despite a solid CinemaScore (A-) and positive reviews. Illumination still has other big titles planned, signaling the franchise isn’t dead yet.

via IndieWire|

#audience-fatigue #box-office #despicable-me

arts-and-entertainment9 days ago•19 min saved

Minionese: How a gibberish language became cinema’s darling

A Washington Post Style piece celebrates Minionese—the Minions’ playful gibberish language—tracing its rise from Despicable Me to the latest film and examining why audiences love it, plus how it fueled TikTok virality and enduring pop-culture appeal.

via The Washington Post|

#arts-and-entertainment #despicable-me #language

film9 days ago•22 min saved

Minions & Monsters: A Nostalgic, Charmingly Wild Hollywood Reboot

IndieWire’s review hails Minions & Monsters as the franchise’s best outing, pairing the Minions’ slapstick with affectionate silent-era and Golden Age Hollywood references (Chaplin, Keaton, Singin’ in the Rain) and a self-aware take on stardom. The first half shines with creative cinema-history gags and meta humor, while the finale leans into a more conventional monster movie. Director Pierre Coffin and co-writer Brian Lynch deliver a playful, cinema-loving ride that suggests classic film can be revived through nostalgic spectacle; Grade: B; now in theaters.

via IndieWire|

#animation #film #film-review

movies10 days ago•6 min saved

Coffin Unpacks Minions’ Language, Memes, and Banana Fame

Pierre Coffin discusses how Minionese is a melody-based gibberish rather than a real language, and how he localizes lines for different markets. He addresses female Minions, noting they aren’t reproducing and that the design would stay the same, and explains that Minions & Monsters is set a few decades before Despicable Me with cinema-era nods. He reflects on meme culture, merchandise like the fart gun, and his time at Amblimation, framing the Minions as individual characters with souls rather than mere creatures. In short, the piece paints the Minions as evolving, meme-driven icons now in UK cinemas.

via The Guardian|

#bananas #memes #minionese

entertainment10 days ago•9 min saved

When Minions Go Black and White: A playful silent-era homage

Pierre Coffin’s Minions & Monsters is a fast, largely nonverbal romp that rewinds to Hollywood’s silent era, spoofing proto-movies and showing how the Minions’ chaos began. With black-and-white visuals, sly nods to Metropolis and Casablanca, a lively John Powell score, and a gag-driven narrative centered on Dort and Max, it celebrates cinema’s roots while letting the Minions drive the humor. It’s more about entertaining and winking at film history than offering period accuracy.

via Los Angeles Times|

#animation #comedy #entertainment

entertainment10 days ago•21 min saved

How Pierre Coffin Built the Minions’ Voice and Minionese

Pierre Coffin reveals the Minions’ squeaky voice is his own voice pitched up six semitones and recorded in slow motion, a method that began during Despicable Me as ad-libbed gibberish and evolved into Minionese, a playful, evolving language mixing Italian, French, Spanish and other words chosen for melody rather than meaning; he uses special software to preserve pitch and tempo, has kept the voice in-house to maintain the language’s feel, and even after stepping back from directing he returns for projects like Minions & Monsters while expanding the linguistic repertoire across films.

via Variety|

#despicable-me #entertainment #minionese

entertainment11 days ago•19 min saved

Banana-fueled Minions Aim for $170M Global Weekend

Illumination's Minions & Monsters is forecast to gross about $170 million globally this weekend, with roughly $80 million domestic from about 4,000 theaters and around $90 million from international markets, including previews in the UK, Germany and Latin America. Overseas previews total roughly $10 million across 10 territories; China remains volatile, and Independence Day timing could shift the weekend. Directed by Pierre Coffin, the film extends the long-running Minions/Despicable Me franchise.

via Deadline|

#animation #box-office #entertainment

entertainment11 days ago•6 min saved

Minions & Monsters: A Nostalgic Tour of Early Cinema

A loving homage to early cinema drives Minions & Monsters, with James and Henry's bond and a parade of classic film references making for the strongest entry in the series; while the Goomi/Dort monster subplot wobbles, director Peter Coffin centers the story on art, entertainment, and cinema's communal legacy.

via Roger Ebert|

#animation #cinema-history #entertainment

film12 days ago•18 min saved

Minions Bring Anarchic Nostalgia to Hollywood Hills

Deadline’s review finds Minions & Monsters a fast, anarchic slapstick that rattles through Hollywood history, following the Minions from ancient mischief to 1920s cinema via a tour-guide narrator, a playful demon, and a new robot boss. Packed with meta‑film gags, references to The Matrix and News on the March, and the infectious Minionese, it delivers kinetic laughs and chaotic energy in a 1h29m PG romp, even as the plot leaps between eras and self‑advertises as a film within a film.

via Deadline|

#animated-film #christoph-waltz #film

entertainment15 days ago•20 min saved

Minions Seek Hollywood Prestige Beyond Box Office

Illumination’s Minions have grossed over $5.5 billion across six films but have only two Oscar nominations and no wins; the new feature Minions & Monsters, directed solo by Pierre Coffin, strives to elevate the yellow troublemakers into Hollywood canon by weaving silent-era cinema homages and film-history nods into the caper, aided by strong early buzz from Annecy and a George Lucas cameo—yet whether commercial success translates into industry prestige remains an open question as the franchise marches on one gag at a time.

via The Hollywood Reporter|

#animation #entertainment #illumination

film20 days ago•29 min saved

Coffin Returns to Minions With a Personal, 1920s Hollywood Adventure

Pierre Coffin returns to the Despicable Me universe with Minions & Monsters, his solo-directing debut co-written with Brian Lynch, a 1920s Hollywood-set tale about a Minion who dreams of making movies. After Despicable Me 3, Coffin felt exhausted from directing and voicing the Minions, but Illumination founder Chris Meledandri rekindled his interest with an idea about a Minion making a monster movie. The film blends Coffin’s love of silent-era cinema with his personal storytelling, paying homage to early Hollywood while balancing humor for kids and adults. He explains writing in English first, layering Minion language later, and discusses the potential—and current limits—of AI in animation, as well as the film’s more personal tone and what the future might hold for the franchise.

via Variety|

#ai #animation #film

arts-entertainment21 days ago•12 min saved

George Lucas makes surprise acting comeback in Minions & Monsters

George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, is returning to Hollywood to voice a character in Illumination’s Minions & Monsters, marking his first acting role since Robot Chicken: Star Wars in 2007. The 82-year-old founder of Lucasfilm stepped away in 2012 after selling Lucasfilm to Disney, and Minions & Monsters hits theaters July 1.

via The Independent|

#arts-entertainment #george-lucas #indiana-jones

movies21 days ago•15 min saved

George Lucas to Voice a Character in Minions & Monsters

George Lucas will voice a character in Illumination's Minions & Monsters, a 1920s-set film; the cameo came after the studio learned Lucas is a fan of the Minions, and the movie hits theaters on July 1.

via Gizmodo|

#george-lucas #illumination #minions

entertainment22 days ago•1 min saved

Minions & Monsters Aims for July Fourth Box Office Crown

Universal’s Minions & Monsters is forecast to top the July 1–4 long weekend with a 3‑day opening of about $75–$85 million and a 5‑day total of $95–$115 million, as the seventh Despicable Me/third Minions film seeks to capitalize on family audiences amid competition from Toy Story 5, riding momentum from Rise of Gru and ongoing franchise demand.

via Boxoffice Pro|

#box-office #despicable-me #entertainment

sports5 months ago•469 min saved

Minion-Music Breakthrough on Olympic Ice: A Copyright Reversal for Skating

Spanish skater Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté will perform a Minions-themed short program at the 2026 Winter Olympics after an initial copyright denial was reversed, marking a rare public shift in figure-skating music rights prompted by viral support; the move follows the 2022 Heavy Young Heathens copyright lawsuit that spurred a centralized licensing path via ClicknClear, though two musical elements remain under review and cross-country licensing remains complex.

via Vulture|