"Minions: The Rise of Gru" release date delayed as production unable to finish

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• 4 years ago

That’s apparently what’s happened with Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s Minions: The Rise of Gru. As THR repor...

That’s apparently what’s happened with Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s Minions: The Rise of Gru. As THR reports, the Minions sequel, which was originally set for a July 3rd release date in the U.S. You might think that animated projects on the big and small screens would be better able to weather the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting quarantines, but that’s not exactly the case. Co-creator of Big City Greens Shane Houghton recently Tweeted out a behind-the-scenes look at how they’re trying to keep production on the Disney series going while all of their artists and staff are at home. That’s hard enough, but now take an animated production pipeline to the max with a big-screen sequel installment in a franchise worth billions, and you begin to see how easily the wheels can come off. And no, it’s not because they expect movie theaters to remain closed that far into the summer (though they may well be), it’s got more to do with quarantine restrictions impacting their post-production process.