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Minions (film) Minions is a 2015 American computer-animated comedy film, serving as a spin-off/prequel to the "Despicable Me" franchise. Produced by Illumination Entertainment for Universal Pictures, it was directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, written by Brian Lynch, and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy. The film stars the voices of Coffin (as the Minions, including: Kevin, Stuart and Bob), Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan and Jennifer Saunders with the narration provided by Geoffrey Rush. It was first foreshadowed in the end credits of "Despicable Me 2" (2013), where Kevin, Stuart and Bob, three of the Minions, are seen auditioning for the film.
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Sandra Bullock Sandra Annette Bullock ( ; born July 26, 1964) is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist. She made her acting debut with a minor role in the 1987 thriller "Hangmen", and made her television debut in the film "Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman" (1989), and played the lead role in the short-lived NBC sitcom "Working Girl." Her breakthrough role was in the film "Demolition Man" (1993). She subsequently starred in several successful films including "Speed" (1994), "While You Were Sleeping" (1995), "The Net" (1995), "A Time to Kill" (1996), "Hope Floats" (1998), and "Practical Magic" (1998).
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Maggie and the Ferocious Beast Maggie and the Ferocious Beast is a Canadian animated children's television series created by Michael and Betty Paraskevas. The program was based on the 1996 book "The Ferocious Beast with the Polka-Dot Hide" and its sequels, all of which were also written by the Paraskevases.
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Matthew Bullock (disambiguation) Matthew Bullock was an African American who fled to Canada and became a cause célèbre in the early 1920s.
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Hubie and Bertie Hubie and Bertie are animated cartoon mouse characters in the Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons. Hubie and Bertie represent some of animator Chuck Jones' earliest work that was intended to be funny rather than cute.
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Betty Boop Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the "Talkartoon" and "Betty Boop" film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising.
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Brian Blados Brian Blados (born January 11, 1962) is a former American football guard and tackle who played nine seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, Indianapolis Colts and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the National Football League. He attended Washington-Lee High School with Sandra Bullock, who was two years behind him. His high school teammates called him "Mutton Head" because his head was "as big as a lamb and full of wool."
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Pamela Westmore Pamela Westmore is a Hollywood make-up artist and part of the third generation of the Westmore family. The granddaughter of Wally Westmore, she has worked on over 50 productions since 1982, including acting as Sandra Bullock's chief makeup artist.
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Lenny &amp; Sid Lenny & Sid is a cartoon series of films and shorts founded by the former Disney animator/director Tony Bancroft and produced by Toonacious Entertainment. The cartoons are Christian-themed, aimed to teach valuable morals to an audience. The films are 22 minutes long and take place in a modern-day neighborhood with Lenny Harres the rabbit and Sid Appleton the mouse become friends and help one another throughout their school year. The shorts are 7 minutes long, silent with only music tracks and are based on Bible Stories.
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Dear Sandra Dear Sandra is an artist book created by Atom Egoyan, inspired by and dedicated to the Luchino Visconti film, Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa.
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Men in Black (1997 film) Men in Black is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald. Loosely adapted from "The Men in Black" comic book series created by Lowell Cunningham and Sandy Carruthers, the film stars Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as two agents of a secret organization called the Men in Black, who supervise extraterrestrial lifeforms who live on Earth and hide their existence from ordinary humans. The film featured the creature effects and makeup of Rick Baker and visual effects by Industrial Light & Magic.
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The Simpsons The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom, aimed at adolescents and adults, created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture and society, television, and the human condition.
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Goofy Gophers The Goofy Gophers are animated cartoon characters in the "Warner Brothers", "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons. The gophers, named Mac and Tosh, are small and brown with tan bellies and buck teeth. They both have British accents. Their names are puns on the surname "Macintosh." They are characterized by an abnormally high level of politeness.
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Rebecca Sugar Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987) is an American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, and songwriter. She is best known for creating the Cartoon Network series "Steven Universe", which has made her the first woman to independently create a series for the network. Sugar was formerly a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series "Adventure Time"; her work on both series earned her four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
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Mary and Max Mary and Max is a 2009 Australian stop motion animated comedy-drama film written and directed by Adam Elliot as his first animated feature film with music by Dale Cornelius and produced by Melanie Coombs and Melodrama Pictures. The voice cast included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana, Bethany Whitmore with narration by Barry Humphries. The film premiered on the opening night of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival on January 15, 2009. The film won the Annecy Cristal in June 2009 from the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and Best Animated Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in November 2009. The film was theatrically released on April 9, 2009 by Icon Entertainment International. "Mary and Max" received very positive reviews from critics and it earned $1.7 million USD on a $8.2 million AUD budget.
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Goopy Geer Goopy Geer is an animated cartoon character in the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons from Warner Bros.
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Globi Globi is a Swiss cartoon character often referred to as Switzerland's Mickey Mouse. He is pictured as an anthropomorphic blue parrot with a yellow beak wearing a black beret and a pair of red and black checkered trousers. He was created by the Swiss cartoonist Robert Lips, as an advertising character for the Swiss department store Globus in 1932 for the company's 25th anniversary. He was originally planned to be called “Kimbukku”, but later renamed Globi after the local Basel German "(Baseldytsch)" dialect word for the department store that created him.
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Marc Lawrence (filmmaker) Marc Lawrence (born October 22, 1959) is an American screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is best known for the four films that he has made with actor Sandra Bullock.
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National Lampoon (magazine) National Lampoon was an American humor magazine which ran from 1970 to 1998. The magazine started out as a spinoff from the "Harvard Lampoon". "National Lampoon" magazine reached its height of popularity and critical acclaim during the late 1970s, when it had a far-reaching effect on American humor and comedy. The magazine spawned films, radio, live theatre, various sound recordings, and print products including books. Many members of the creative staff from the magazine subsequently went on to contribute creatively to successful media of all types.
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Kyle Balda Kyle Balda is an American animator and film director, best known for co-directing the animated films "The Lorax" (2012), with Chris Renaud, and "Minions" (2015), with Pierre Coffin. He has also worked as animator on several films including "Jumanji", "Toy Story 2", and "Despicable Me". He has worked for Pixar for years and now he is working for Illumination Entertainment.
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Alanna Ubach Alanna Noel Ubach (born October 3, 1975) is an American actress and singer of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent. She is known for her roles in "Legally Blonde" as Serena McGuire, and "Meet the Fockers" as Isabel Villalobos. She has provided voices for several characters in a number of animated television shows and movies, such as Liz Allan on "The Spectacular Spider-Man", the title character on "", Lola Boa on "Brandy & Mr. Whiskers", Strudel on "Pound Puppies" (2010), and four characters in the Oscar-winning animated film "Rango". She played the first female assistant, Josie, on "Beakman's World". She also wrote and performed a one-woman show.
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MTV Animation MTV Animation is the animation department of the television network MTV. It was created in the late 1980s where it made several of the animated shorts that aired as bumpers for the network. It is often grouped with its Nickelodeon Animation Studios but they are completely separate departments. During the 2000s MTV Animation productions have decreased as MTV began importing more cartoons from their sister networks Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. Most of MTV cartoons are known for their dark humor, sexual jokes, graphic violence, pop culture references, and irreverence.