Minions & Monsters

Universal Pictures and Illumination have scheduled *Minions & Monsters* for release on Wednesday, June 25, 2026 — a summer slot that the franchise knows well. The film belongs to the Minions Collection, the extended family of properties built around the yellow, dungaree-wearing, gibberish-speaking creatures first introduced in *Despicable Me* and later given their own origin-story vehicle in *Minions* (2015) and its prequel follow-up *Minions: The Rise of Gru* (2022). That those films collectively earned billions of dollars at the global box office is not a trivial piece of context: Illumination has consistently treated the characters as a reliable commercial engine, and nothing about this announcement suggests a departure from that institutional confidence. Read more…