{"id":532045,"date":"2026-06-12T18:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/532045\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:37:12","slug":"illumination-drops-minions-monsters-clips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/532045\/","title":{"rendered":"Illumination Drops \u2018Minions &#038; Monsters\u2019 Clips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"colorbox colorbox-insert-image\" data-colorbox-gallery=\"gallery-all\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/original\/public\/image\/featured\/2582_fp_1141713u_00433625-1280.jpg?itok=m0YONeuI\" title=\"\u2018Minions &amp; Monsters,\u2019 coming to theaters July 1, from Illumination. All images \u00a9 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"caption image-inline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2582_fp_1141713u_00433625-1280.jpg\" style=\"height:260px; width:620px\" title=\"\u2018Minions &amp; Monsters,\u2019 coming to theaters July 1, from Illumination. All images \u00a9 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Universal and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/tag\/illumination\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Illumination<\/a><\/strong> have dropped two new clips from the studios\u2019 next absurd outing in one of the silliest global animated franchise, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/tag\/minions-monsters\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minions &amp; Monsters<\/a><\/strong>, featuring all-new characters, some film noir, and\u2026 a Minion clown with a chainsaw.<\/p>\n<p>The 3DCG comedy tells the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.<\/p>\n<p>The film is directed by Academy Award nominee Pierre Coffin, a director of the first three Despicable Me films and the first Minions film; he has also provided the voice for the Minions since their film debut in 2010. The film is written by Brian Lynch (Minions, The Secret Life of Pets films) and Coffin and is produced by Illumination\u2019s Academy Award nominated founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and Bill Ryan (executive producer, The Super Mario Bros. Movie). Lynch also serves as executive producer.<\/p>\n<p>Meet GOOMI \u2013 don\u2019t ask what that stands for &#8211; take an odd limo ride\u2026 and revisit that clown with a chainsaw!<\/p>\n<p>Source: Illumination<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/users\/dan-sarto\" title=\"View user profile.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/picture-283-172447260.jpg\" width=\"45\" height=\"45\" alt=\"Dan Sarto's picture\" title=\"Dan Sarto's picture\"\/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awn.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#3551545b7554425b1b565a580a4640575f50564108654057595c465d50471007057c5b44405c474c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Sarto<\/a> is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal and Illumination have dropped two new clips from the studios\u2019 next absurd outing in one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[35296,229062,77877,35012,229063,35014,229065,229066,229064,96119,191670,63482,229060,188162,30885,72589,18,117,35013,229061,19,99118,17,67195,90098,155075,157462,327,229067,157450,12174,54120,17908,145333],"class_list":["post-532045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-3d","tag-3dcg","tag-allison-janney","tag-animated-feature-films","tag-animated-features","tag-animated-films","tag-bill-ryan","tag-bobby-moynihan","tag-brian-lynch","tag-cg","tag-cg-animation","tag-cgi","tag-chaos-reigns-again","tag-chris-meledandri","tag-christoph-waltz","tag-despicable-me","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-feature-film-animation","tag-franchises","tag-ie","tag-illumination","tag-ireland","tag-jeff-bridges","tag-jesse-eisenberg","tag-minions","tag-minions-monsters","tag-movies","tag-phil-lamarr","tag-pierre-coffin","tag-south-park","tag-trey-parker","tag-universal-pictures","tag-zoey-deutch"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}