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I don't think I'm particularly great at managing companies'.

While he had been approached by NBCUniversal to oversee both studios, he turned down the offer and later explained 'I love the process of making films and working with artists. On August 22, 2016, NBCUniversal acquired competing studio DreamWorks Animation, which fuelled speculation that Meledandri was to oversee both studios.

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Seuss' The Lorax, and formed Illumination Mac Guff (later Illumination Studios Paris). In 2011, Illumination acquired the animation department of the French animation and visual effects studio Mac Guff, which animated Despicable Me and Dr. As part of the deal, Illumination retains creative control and Universal Pictures exclusively distributes the films. After leaving, he founded Illumination Entertainment and a deal was announced positioning Illumination Entertainment as NBC Universal's family entertainment arm, that would produce one to two films a year starting in 2010. While at those companies he supervised or executive-produced movies including Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Robots, and Dr. Meledandri left as President of 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios in early 2007. Logo used from 2010 to 2017 still used on trailers and promotional material All three films are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, and eight of their films are among the 50 highest-grossing animated films. The studio's highest-grossing films are The Super Mario Bros. Illumination has produced 13 feature films, with an average gross of $711.4 million per film. The Minions, characters from the Despicable Me series, are the mascots of the studio. Seuss' books The Lorax and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, as well as film adaptations of Nintendo video games starting with The Super Mario Bros. The studio is the creator of the Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets and Sing franchises and the film adaptations of Dr. Meledandri produces the films, while Universal finances and distributes them.

Illumination is owned by Meledandri and the Illumination brand is co-owned by Universal Pictures, a division of Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. Illumination (formerly known as Illumination Entertainment) is an American computer animation studio, founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007.