{"id":2746,"date":"2026-06-24T14:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2026-06-24T14:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:04:30","slug":"the-minions-and-their-big-boss-chris-meledandri-keep-a-blockbuster-machine-humming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2746","title":{"rendered":"The Minions and their \u2018big boss\u2019 Chris Meledandri keep a blockbuster machine humming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> | When Illumination founder and chief executive Chris Meledandri earlier this month received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he wondered how many visitors it will have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn years to come, as people walk down Hollywood Boulevard, they\u2019ll come across my star,\u201d he said to the assembled crowd. \u201cAnd unless they\u2019re related to me, they\u2019ll ask: \u2018Who the hell was that guy?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet at a time of perpetual upheaval in Hollywood, the unflashy Meledandri has created and shaped one of Hollywood\u2019s most consistent blockbuster-making operations. Family-friendly movies are fueling the box office like never before, and Illumination is at the forefront of it.<\/p>\n<p>Since Illumination\u2019s first release, 2010\u2019s \u201cDespicable Me,\u201d the animation studio has accounted for more than $11 billion in global box office. Its \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d is the sole $1 billion movie of 2026 so far. Illumination\u2019s next release, \u201cMinions &amp; Monsters,\u201d which premieres Sunday at the Annecy Film Festival in France, stands a good chance of equaling it.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The Minions \u2014 Illumination\u2019s answer to Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny \u2014 have done a lot to drive that success. But the studio, a division of Universal Pictures, has expanded to include the \u201cMario\u201d movies with Nintendo, an upcoming \u201cBarbie\u201d animated movie with Mattel and earlier franchises like \u201cSing\u201d and \u201cThe Secret Lives of Pets.\u201d If Illumination is synonymous with anything, it\u2019s good cartoony fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the outset, we really wanted to make films that would be joyous above everything else,\u201d Meledandri said in an interview. \u201cI found myself working with filmmakers who appreciated that Looney Tunes style of cartooning integrated into the creation of these animated films today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinions &amp; Monsters,\u201d which opens in theaters July 1, may be Illumination\u2019s ultimate goofy romp. In the seventh of the \u201cDespicable Me\u201d movies and the third \u201cMinions\u201d standalone feature, the Minions become filmmakers. \u201cMinions &amp; Monsters\u201d has the gumption to give some of the most chaos-inducing creatures, who have mishandled every diabolical device ever handed to them, a camera.<\/p>\n<p>Set in the 1920s Golden Age of Hollywood, the movie has a lot of fun putting the Minions alongside silent slapstick classics like Charlie Chaplin\u2019s \u201cModern Times\u201d and Harold Lloyd\u2019s \u201cSafety Last!\u201d Jeff Bridges voices a studio head. It\u2019s the Minions\u2019 answer to \u201cThe Muppet Movie.\u201d James, the most creative Minion, is listed as its director \u2014 at least in a first draft of the end credits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Minions go behind the camera<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The movie\u2019s real director, though, is Pierre Coffin, an Illumination veteran who has directed many of its movies and who famously voices the Minions. But Coffin has had a complicated relationship with the Minions ever-expanding world domination, and Meledandri knew he was reluctant to return. But this is an executive who, as a producer, managed to reunite the cast of DreamWorks\u2019 \u201cShrek\u201d for a fifth movie due out next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe called me one weekend and he said, \u2018You\u2019re going to say no but I\u2019ve got to ask,\u201d Coffin, speaking from Paris, says. \u201cHe said: \u2018It\u2019s Minions wanting to make a monster movie. They conjure monsters but then that creation turns on them and the Earth.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe got me at \u2018Minions making movies,&#8217;\u201d adds Coffin. \u201cFrom that moment, I just had questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The movie, opening two weeks after Pixar\u2019s \u201cToy Story 5,\u201d will be a new test of just how much of a powerhouse Illumination has become. After a stint running Fox\u2019s animation division and making the \u201cIce Age\u201d films, Meledandri founded the company, relying heavily on a group of artists at a Paris animation company then called Mac Guff. While Illumination is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, much of its movie production takes place in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>With its collaborations now stretching to Japan, via Nintendo, a globalization defines Illumination \u2014 fitting given the international word salad gibberish of the Minions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn objective from day one, when I started the company, was to have the complexion of creative leadership reflect our desire to make films for the entire world, as opposed to being so American-centric,\u201d says Meledandri.<\/p>\n<p>But Meledandri never set out to rival Disney or Pixar. \u201cThose goals just felt unrealistically ambitious,\u201d he says. Instead, Meledandri freed filmmakers and animators to make movies about antic antiheroes. He targeted subversive comedy, not poignancy. You\u2019re likely to laugh at an Illumination movie. Crying? Not so much.<\/p>\n<p>That approach has made Illumination a box-office behemoth. (Universal\u2019s output deal with Netflix, after the movies first stream on Peacock, also boosts its films\u2019 audience.) But awards love has eluded the company. Illumination has never won an Oscar, a historical fact jokingly nodded to in \u201cMinions &amp; Monsters.\u201d Only one release (\u201cDespicable Me 2\u201d) has been nominated for best animated feature.<\/p>\n<p>But with its abiding affection for moviemaking, \u201cMinions &amp; Monsters\u201d could find wider industry support. Even George Lucas lends his voice to the film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Making blockbusters on a budget<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regardless, \u201cMinions &amp; Monsters\u201d is something rare in today\u2019s movie world: It\u2019s almost certain to be profitable. Since producing the 2000 box-office bomb \u201cTitan A.E.\u201d at Fox, Meledandri has made fiscal discipline a religion. \u201cEveryone\u2019s expectation was that I would be fired,\u201d he says. \u201cI probably should have been fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While $200 million-plus budgets still drive many blockbusters, even big-budget filmmakers like James Cameron have warned that production costs need to be scaled down for leaner times. \u201cMinions &amp; Monsters\u201d cost a relatively modest $85 million to make. Illumination\u2019s most expensive movie, \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie,\u201d cost a not-extreme $110 million. \u201cToy Story 5,\u201d on the other hand, carries a $250 million budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 19 years, I cannot remember a single conversation where a director came back and said: We need more money. It\u2019s just not part of our ethos,\u201d Meledandri says. \u201cIt may be: How are we going to solve this problem? Or: We can\u2019t get this done by this date. But it\u2019s never: We need more money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some in Hollywood see generative AI as a promising new way to keep expenses down, but Meledandri isn\u2019t sold yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy main focus right now is the preservation of jobs and at the expense of being the most technologically advanced,\u201d he says. \u201cIt always feels better to be part of a front of a wave as opposed to a Luddite. But in this case, we\u2019re not pushing AI into our pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not believe that a sufficient answer is, \u2018Well, we\u2019ve had technological advances before and people were worried yet it all was fine and things kept surging forward,&#8217;\u201d Meledandri continues. \u201cNone of those other technologies had agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Animation big wigs have often been ubiquitous presences. But neither Jeffrey Katzenberg, of DreamWorks, nor John Lasseter, of Pixar, remain at the animation studios they once defined. The 67-year-old Meledandri, who grew up on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side, is the unlikely heavyweight \u2014 the \u201cbig boss\u201d of the Minion empire.<\/p>\n<p>His entry to the movie business first began when a customer of his father\u2019s men\u2019s clothing store hired him as an assistant on \u201cFootloose.\u201d His second big break came producing the 1993 Disney hit \u201cCool Runnings.\u201d Now he finds himself running a once-underdog animation studio with an almost unblemished track record.<\/p>\n<p>The competition that worries him isn\u2019t Disney or Pixar, though, but short-form content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s got to force us to be more imaginative and more surprising and to reach further than storytelling that could feel safe because it\u2019s worked before,\u201d says Meledandri. \u201cIn \u2018Minions &amp; Monsters,\u2019 what Pierre Coffin has done is made a movie that is so wildly imaginative and unexpected that it\u2019s exactly where I would wish Illumination to be in this moment in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2740\">Troubled Reflecting Pool faces fresh scrutiny over vandalism claims and duck deaths<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2742\">How Americans are feeling about the country\u2019s 250th anniversary, according to new polls<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2744\">Mamdani slate sweeps Democratic primaries in New York, ousts 2 incumbents from Congress<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK | When Illumination founder and chief executive Chris Meledandri earlier this month received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he wondered how many visitors it will have. \u201cIn years to come, as people walk down Hollywood Boulevard, they\u2019ll come across my star,\u201d he said to the assembled crowd. \u201cAnd unless they\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101,1102,149,150,166,167,1103,1104],"tags":[4442,4443,4444,4445,4446,4447],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-0-no-apple-publish","category-1gridmagazine","category-a-town-magazine","category-celebrities","category-credits","category-sentinel-screen","category-uncategorized","category-z-other-galley","tag-chris-meledandri","tag-despicable-me","tag-illumination","tag-minions","tag-pierre-coffin","tag-universal-pictures"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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