The University of Siena in Siena, Tuscany is one of the oldest universities and first publicly funded universities in Italy. Originally called Studium Senese, the University of Siena was founded in 1240. The University had around 20,000 students in 2006 nearly half of Sienaâs total population of around 54,000.
It launched the Despicable Me franchise with a series of films, including the sequel Despicable Me 2 in 2013, and the prequel Minions released in 2015 and featuring Gru's Minions as the main characters. Another sequel, Despicable Me 3, is scheduled for release in 2017.
Production notes for the Despicable Me movie in 2013 describe the Minions language as plain gibberish mixed with random foreign words. On the notes, Coffin said that he mixed up ridiculous sounding words only because they sounded good but they donât necessarily mean something.