Illumination's latest movie, Migration, has screened for critics, and they're sharing thoughts.

Migration can be said to be one of Illumination’s best movies yet, but that’s a pretty low bar to clear.

Illumination's CEO explains the surprising choice to cast Chris Pratt as Mario.

The animated Super Mario Bros movie has assembled a stacked cast.

Chris Meledandri, CEO of American animation studio Illumination, has been nominated to join Nintendo as an Outside Director.

How do villains offer insight into our heroes in the best of superhero movies?

Something interesting happens when you sit down to watch all of Illumination Entertainment's feature films; you start to notice peculiar trends appearing. Some of these trends are good, like the studio's polished and consistent animation, the insane amounts of creativity on display, and the sense that these movies exist in modern version of a classic, slapstick cartoon world. However, some of the trends are not so great, like an over-reliance on gibberish and potty humor, the desire to force contemporary pop songs into the narrative, and a strange (and dark) violent streak that has one questioning just …

Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment have released the full-length first trailer for the upcoming prequel Minions: The Rise of Gru. The follow-up to the studios’ smash-hit 2015 film Minions—which grossed $1.159 billion—takes place in the 1970s and follows Steve Carell’s iconic villain Gru as a 12-year-old with dreams of becoming a supervillain (still voiced by Carell). While this movie still takes place before the events of the Despicable Me films, it’s technically a sequel to the 1968-set Minions, in which the titular characters were on the hunt for a …

Lightmatter is a little heavy on its influences, but nonetheless is a fascinating and tightly-wound first person puzzle game with plenty of tricks.

Something interesting happens when you sit down to watch all of Illumination Entertainment's feature films; you start to notice peculiar trends appearing. Some of these trends are good, like the studio's polished and consistent animation, the insane amounts of creativity on display, and the sense that these movies exist in modern version of a classic, slapstick cartoon world. However, some of the trends are not so great, like an over-reliance on gibberish and potty humor, the desire to force contemporary pop songs into the narrative, and a strange (and dark) violent streak that has one questioning just …

From the Despicable Me franchise to the Grinch, Illumination Animation has produced some of the most fun animated comedies in recent cinematic history. And a lot of that comes from the hilarious characters that they've created. Because we love those characters and the films in which they star, we matched our favorite Illumination Animation characters to the personality type that fits them. At least, the ones according to the Myers-Briggs® Personality Test website.