Posts Tagged ‘Illumination Entertainment’

Despicable Me knocks Twilight off the top spot

We're not sure how this happened but Twilight was knocked off the top spot this weekend, in the USA, by an animated 3D film. The film, Despicable Me, took $60.1m (£40.2m) whereas Twilight took just $33.4m (£22.3m). This comes as quite a surprise considering all the hype surrounding the latest Twilight, but it seems the Twihards just...

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Ricky Gervais’ Flanimals spawns new film

It might be hard to admit whilst thinking of his smug mug, but there's no denying that Ricky Gervais has a bit of a magic touch... The Office star has only just finished his feature directorial debut, The Invention of Lying, and now Universal-based Illumination Entertainment has snapped up the rights to his children's book series Flanimals for a...

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