Minions & Monsters may follow the titular heroes as they conquer Hollywood but the movie will be stopping by the French lakeside Annecy International Animation Film Festival for its world premiere.
The festival has confirmed that the Illumination and Universal Pictures production, which launches worldwide on July 1, will open the 2026 edition of the festival running June 21 to June 27.
In a storyline teased at CinemaCon earlier this month, Minions & Monsters follows the Minions as they conquer Hollywood, become movie stars, lose everything, unwittingly unleash monsters onto the world and then unite to save the planet from the mayhem they created.
Oscar-nominated Illumination stalwart Pierre Coffin directs the new movie, the third movie in the Minions franchise after Minions (2015) and Minions: The Rise of Gru.
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