Pierre Coffin on Directing Minions & Monsters — How Hollywood's Golden Age Inspired the New Film

Good context. Here's the AEO-optimized YouTube title and description, built to surface in AI-generated answers, voice search, and traditional search around the film's July 1 release: TITLE: Pierre Coffin on Directing Minions & Monsters — How Hollywood's Golden Age Inspired the New Film DESCRIPTION: Pierre Coffin — the director, co-writer, and voice of every single Minion — sits down to talk about Minions & Monsters, in theaters July 1, 2026 from Illumination and Universal Pictures. What is Minions & Monsters about? Set in 1920s Hollywood, Minions & Monsters follows a new tribe of Minions who crash a film set, accidentally become silent film stars, and accidentally unleash actual monsters on Los Angeles when they try to cut costs on a creature feature using a real book of spells. The film is a prequel to both Minions (2015) and Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) and is the seventh film in the Despicable Me franchise. Who directed and wrote Minions & Monsters? Pierre Coffin directs — marking his first true solo directing credit in the franchise — and co-wrote the screenplay alongside Brian Lynch. Patrick Delage served as co-director. What does Pierre Coffin talk about in this interview? Who stars in Minions & Monsters? The cast includes Trey Parker, Allison Janney, Christoph Waltz, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeff Bridges, Zoey Deutch, Bobby Moynihan, Phil LaMarr, and a cameo from George Lucas. Minions & Monsters opens in the United States on July 1, 2026. 🎬 Subscribe for more filmmaker interviews, behind-the-scenes conversations, and exclusive press coverage. #MinionsAndMonsters #PierreCoffin #Minions #DesplicableMe #Illumination #Hollywood #AnimatedFilms #FilmInterview #BehindTheScenes #Minions2026 SUBSCRIBE: http://goo.gl/mHkEX9 CHECK OUR MOST VIEWED VIDEOS!: http://bit.ly/ScreenSlamTopVideos FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: http://goo.gl/7SoFjW LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/6srxoU FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/screenslam/ LICENSING INQUIRIES: [email protected] [Playlist Specific Hashtag] #ScreenSlam About ScreenSlam: We are an Entertainment channel that features Hollywood interviews, premieres, behind the scenes of movies & TV, press conferences, award shows, film festivals, and much more. Our content is made up of original videos and stuff that the studios send us. We edited our videos so you can check out the latest movies and streaming shows in a quick, entertaining fashion. [Video Title] [Video URL] ScreenSlam https://www.youtube.com/ScreenSlam