Watch the Super Bowl TV Spot for the Minions right now. I bet the Patriots and Seahawks have never seen so much yellow before!
NewsWhy wait for the big game to get your fix of Minions football craziness? You can enjoy it right now by clicking on the video below for Illumination’s Despicable Me spin-off!
After the stunning success of Despicable Me 2 at the box office, Universal and Illumination Entertainment are preparing to go into overdrive as a major player in family entertainment beginning in 2015. The first of those efforts is Minions, a spin-off about the lovably adorable sidekicks from the first two Despicable Me films (there will be more).
Directed by Pierre Coffin of the first two Despicable Me films and written by Brian Lynch who scripted the Puss in Boots spin-off, this follow-up acts more as a prequel than a sequel to the previous movies. It appears that the yellow henchmen have existed since the dawn of time, having served history’s most incorrigible baddies, before ineptly facilitating their demises, including the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Count Dracula. Discouraged, they have hidden in Antarctica for ages until, out of boredom and despair, they attend a villain convention in the 1960s and meet Scarlet Overdrive, an ambitious female villain seeking world domination. Minions was originally slated to come out in December 2014, but Universal was so happy with Despicable Me 2’sgrosses that the distributor pushed this back for the maximum merchandising and box office potential that comes with a summer release.
They will try to take over the world on July 10, 2015.
