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Illumination Entertainment is an American animation film production company, founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007. It has an exclusive financing and distribution partnership with Universal Studios, it is based in Santa Monica, California by 2017 its headquarters will move to Toronto,Ontario,Canada in 2019. The company is best known for its first animated feature film Despicable Me (released in 2010), its sequel Despicable Me 2 (2013) and its first $1,000,000,000 highest-grossing film and prequel/spin-off to the Despicable Me films, Minions (2015).

in 2022, Illumination Entertainment was absorbed into DreamWorks Animation SKG since the birth of the DreamWorks Holdings SKG.

Filmography
Cancelled Films
 * The Addams Family
 * Where Wally
 * Emily the Strange
 * Curious George
 * Woody Woodpecker
 * Clifford the Big Red Dog

Released films

 * Despicable Me (2010)
 * Hop (2011)
 * The Lorax (2012)
 * Despicable Me 2 (2013)
 * Minions (2015)
 * The Secret Life Of Pets (2016)
 * Sing (2016)
 * Despicable Me 3 (2017)
 * The m and ms Movie (2018)

Upcoming films

 * The Grinch (2018)
 * Wallace and gromit the curse of were rabbit (2019)
 * The care bears movie(2019)
 * a bugs life (2019)
 * the care bears movie 2 a new generation (2020)
 * monsters inc (2020)
 * finding nemo (2020)
 * the black hole (2021
 * Pingu Minions Care Bears (2022)
 * Tron (2022)
 * Back of the Furture (2023)
 * The Sky Cinema Summer Movie (2024)
 * home 2025

Short films

 * The Bugaloos (2018)