We have a good idea of how the new Super Mario movie will turn out to be an interesting one.

The animation studio behind “Despicable Me,” Illumination, is launching a new label that will help it expand beyond family films and into more adult animated fare. To lead the new label, they ...

Disney’s animation studios have struggled to generate box-office returns recently while Universal’s Illumination and DreamWorks studios continue to deliver.

Illumination, the studio behind "Despicable Me," has hired former Netflix Adult Animation Chief Mike Moon to create a new label, Moonlight.

Rather than Illumination hoarding all of the rights to each Nintendo franchise, however, the ensuing cinematic universe is split across a whole host of different animation studios, each applying ...

BOARDROOMS & BLOCKBUSTERS The gradual ‘illumination’ of DreamWorks “The Wild Robot” is coming in just two weeks, and it subverts a troubling trend for the stalwart animation studio.

Animation studio Illumination, creators of "Minions" and "Super Mario Bros", was presented with a rare honorary award by Pharrell Williams at one of the world's top animation festivals in France on ...

It also marks the biggest opening haul for Chris Meledandri’s Illumination animation studio (home of the Minions) and the second highest-grossing domestic debut of any animated film.

Basking in the glow of one of the greatest debut weekends in the history of animation, Illumination’s Chris Meledandri caught up with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss The Super Mario Bros ...