Despicable Me 2 became the second-highest-grossing animated film of 2013 and the third highest-grossing film of 2013. It is also the most profitable film in the 101-year history of Universal Studios. A spinoff/prequel film, "Minions", focusing on the little yellow henchmen before they met Gru, was released on July 10, 2015. A sequel, "Despicable Me 3", was released on June 30, 2017. A mysterious vehicle using a giant magnet steals a highly potent mutagen known as PX-41 from a secret laboratory in the Arctic Circle. The Anti-Villain League (AVL), led by Silas Ramsbottom, tries to recruit former super-villain Gru to track down the
Animated Antics Animated Antics Animated Antics was an animated cartoon series produced by the Fleischer Studios from 1939 through 1941, and distributed through Paramount Pictures. Each cartoon ran less than 7 minutes, all in black & white (reports that "Copy Cat" was in Technicolor are erroneous, confirmed by the B&W Original Camera Negative on deposit at the UCLA Film & Television Archive). Five cartoons in the series were spinoffs from Fleischer Studios' 1939 feature film "Gulliver's Travels", starring the villains Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch and the carrier pigeon Twinkletoes from the movie, all voiced by Jack Mercer. The studio produced 11 cartoons