Universal Articles

Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud’s Despicable Me Following a number of disappointments and outright flops — Green Zone, Repo Men, Leap Year, Robin Hood — Universal finally has a bona fide hit in its hands. Despite numerous unenthusiastic reviews, Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud’s Despicable Me, which features the voices of Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Jason Segel, Julie Andrews, and Miranda Cosgrove, beat David Slade’s The [...]

Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud’s Despicable Me At the North American box-office, the Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattinson-Taylor Lautner romance/fantasy/adventure The Twilight Saga: Eclipse was dethroned by the animated 3D feature Despicable Me on Friday, according to Box Office Mojo. Directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, and featuring the voices of Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Jason Segel, Julie Andrews, and Miranda Cosgrove, Despicable Me took in an [...]

Director Joseph Pevney died this past May 18. He was 96. Pevney was best known — among the few who’d heard of him — for his 1950s B-movies made at Universal, though beginning in the late 1950s he went on to direct countless episodes of TV series ranging from Bewitched and The Big Valley to Star Trek and The Incredible Hulk. Among Pevney’s 1950s efforts [...]