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  • ‘I Hope Not’: Despicable Me Director Chris Renaud Shares His Thoughts On Making Possible Live Action

    ‘I Hope Not’: Despicable Me Director Chris Renaud Shares His Thoughts On Making Possible Live Action

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    Director Chris Renaud believes the essence of the Despicable Me franchise lies in its animated form. The franchise veteran, who helmed the original installment alongside Pierre Coffin in 2010, opened up about his “personal” thoughts on a live-action remake of the Minions film. 

    “God, I hope not. That’s my answer,” the 57-year-old filmmaker said when asked about a possible live-action feature of the fictional yellow creatures originated by Illumination Animation and Universal Pictures, per an interview with Film Hounds magazine.

    The far-fetched idea of the live-action Minions did not sit well with Renaud as he pointed out that he hasn’t been “privy” to conversations around the live-action future of the franchise, if there’s been any, and is certainly “not very appealing” to him.

    He insinuated that the animated world of the Minions presents far greater potential than what could be done in a real-life scenario. 

    “But for me, what defines the world is that it is animated, and it allows us to get away with what we get away with,” Renaud, who also directed Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, noted. With this, he referenced scenes– where a minion is locked in a vending machine, or Gru emerging alive from an explosion after he attacks Vector– that only seem to work as cartoon ideas. 

    Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter echoed Renaud’s stance on a live-action remake and hesitantly said the idea itself bothered him in a June interview with Time Magazine. He referenced the 2007 animated film, Ratatouille while explaining how animated ideas do not work in real. Moreover, the idea of remakes does not appeal to him as Docter is mostly fond of making original and unique features. 

    Chris Renaud’s wide-spanning work in the animation industry ranges from filmmaking and designing to working as a storyboard artist and a voice actor. He teamed up with French animator Pierre Coffin, 57, to build the billion-dollar blockbuster Despicable Me franchise. The latter also serves as the primary voice for the Minions besides his directing duties. 

    The duo also directed Despicable Me 2 in 2013 before Renaud returned to direct the fourth installment in 2024. He served as the producer for the spinoffs, 2015’s Minions and 2022’s Minions: The Rise of Gru. 

    Now, plans for a third sequel for the Minions spinoff are reportedly brewing. In July, Illumination and Universal Pictures announced that Minions 3 is eyeing a scheduled release date of June 30, 2027, and will be helmed by Pierre Coffin. He will be directing from a script by Brian Lynch, whose previous works include The Secret Life of Pets and the 2015 Minions spinoff. 

    The latest installment, Despicable Me 4, hit theatres on July 5, 2024, and has crossed the billion-dollar mark (USD 5 billion) in global ticket sales, per The Hollywood Reporter. This feat has etched the franchise in the history of animation films.

    The Despicable Me franchise primarily follows the journey of the supervillain-turned-loving parent, Felonius Gru, brilliantly voiced by Steve Carell, as he leads an army of minions while parenting his three adopted daughters– Margo, Edith, and Agnes. The film features an ensemble cast of Will Ferrell, Miranda Cosgrove, and Kristen Wiig.

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  • Box Office: ‘Despicable Me 4’ Easily Wins With $44.7M as ‘Longlegs’ Stuns With Record $22.6M Launch

    Box Office: ‘Despicable Me 4’ Easily Wins With $44.7M as ‘Longlegs’ Stuns With Record $22.6M Launch

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    Animation continue to the be hero of the summer office thanks to Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2, but Neon‘s Longlegs can rightly take a bow after scoring the biggest opening for an independent horror pic in a decade with $22.6 million in ticket sales.

    From Illumination and Universal, DM4 easily stayed atop the domestic box office chart in its second weekend with $44.7 million from 4,449 theaters as it jumped the $200 million mark to finish Sunday with a North American tally of $211.1 million. Overseas, Gru and the mischievous Minions also continued to stir up strong sales, earning $88 million from 78 markets for a foreign tally of $226.7 million and $437.8 million globally.

    In a notable milestone, the Despicable Me/Minions franchise has crossed $5 billion mark in global ticket sales, a feat no animated franchise has achieved before. (Earlier this week, Illumination announced that a Minions 3 is in the works.)

    The big surprise of the weekend is the better-than-expected performance of writer-director Osgood Perkins Longlegs, a serial killer chiller starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage. The tense FBI procedural, playing in 2,510 cinemas, is the biggest opening ever for Tom Quinn‘s Oscar-winning specialty production and distribution outfit Neon, home of Parasite.

    Among other records, it’s Cage’s biggest opening since National Treasure: Book of Secrets almost twenty years ago in 2007. It’s also the top R-rated opening of 2024 to date. And it is the only indie horror film of the past decade to open to $20 million or more (this excludes one of the Insidious movies from Focus Features/Universal).

    Going back as far as 25 years, Neon also notes that very few indie films have crossed the $20 million threshold in their debut. For purposes of context, however, many indie titles — including Neon releases — only open a few theaters, versus rolling out nationwide from the get-go as Longlegs did.

    The well-reviewed movie earned $10 million on Friday alone, including previews, and wasn’t hampered by a C+ Cinemascore, since it’s common for the horror genre to land a grade in the C range. Fun fact: More than 70 percent of ticket buyers were between ages 18 and 34.

    The record-shattering Inside Out 2 — which has a shot at becoming the top-grossing animated film of all time — finished Sunday with a global cume of $1.35 billion. It’s already become the top-grossing Pixar title of all time and the third biggest animated title, not adjusted for inflation. The film has helped propel Disney become the first major studio to cross the $2 billion mark in 2024 global ticket sales.

    In North America, Inside Out 2 came in third in its fifth weekend with $20.8 million for a domestic tally of $572.6 million. Overseas, it earned another $50.2 million from 47 markets for a foreign cume of $777.5 million. It has yet to open in Japan, where it could do sizeable business.

    Paramount’s holdover A Quiet Place: Day One continues to entice moviegoers and placed fourth despite the entry of Longlegs. The prequel scared up another $11.8 million this weekend from 3,378 theaters for a domestic total of $116.2 million through Sunday.

    Apple Original Films‘ continues its theatrical ambitions with the release of director Greg Berlanti’s Fly Me to the Moon, a romantic comedy starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum. The period space-age movie, distributed by Sony on behalf of Apple, opened to a subdued $10 million from 3,356 sites to place No. 5. The number isn’t a surprise considering the film was fueled by older adults; more than half of ticket buyers were 45 or older, including 32 percent over the age of 55.

    The movie has earned meh reviews, but audiences were kinder in bestowing the older-skewing film an A- CinemaScore. Reviews matter more to older moviegoers, upon whom Berlanti’s film is relying, but Apple and Sony believe the film will have long legs, similar to Ticket to Paradise, which opened to $16.5 million domestically on its way to topping out at $68 million, and Where the Crawdads Sing, which opened to $17.7 million and topped out at $90 million domestic.

    At the specialty box office, new offerings include A24‘s Sing Sing, which is on course to score a solid per-theater average of $34,280 or thereabouts from four theaters in Los Angeles and New York. The film, from director Greg Kwedar, chronicles an arts program at the infamous Sing Sing prison.

    July 14, 7:45 a.m. Updated with revised estimates.

    This story was originally published July 13 at 10:16 a.m.

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  • Despicable Me 4 Clip Sees Gru & Family Getting New Identities

    Despicable Me 4 Clip Sees Gru & Family Getting New Identities

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    Another Despicable Me 4 clip from Illumination‘s highly-anticipated animated sequel has surfaced online, featuring Gru and his family.

    “In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem in Illumination’s Despicable Me 4,” reads the synopsis. “The film begins a new chapter with Gru and Lucy and their girls welcomed a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal, and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina (Vergara), and the family is forced to go on the run.”

    Check out the Despicable Me clip below (watch more trailers):

    What happens in the Despicable Me 4 clip?

    In the new Despicable Me 4 clip, Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith, Agnes, and Gru Jr. assumed new identities given to them by the Anti-Villain league as protection from villain Maxime Le Mal, who seeks revenge against Gru. The fourth installment will arrive in theaters next week on Wednesday, July 3.

    The film is directed by Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage from a screenplay written by The White Lotus creator Mike White and Ken Daurio. It stars returning cast members Steve Carell as Gru, Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, Kristen Wiig as Lucy, Dana Gaier as Edith, Madison Polan as Agnes, Steve Coogan as Silas Ramsbottom, and Pierre Coffin as the Minions. Joining them are franchise newcomers Will Ferrell, Sofia Vergara, Joey King, Stephen Colbert, and Chloe Fineman. It is produced by Chris Meledandri and Brett Hoffman.

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