Back in 2010 the world was introduced to a new kind of supervillain in Despicable Me. Like a lot of animated features, it spawned a franchise that not only featured four films in the series, but spin-offs focusing on the minions. Now the third film (seventh overall) in the minion saga is heading to theaters with Minions & Monsters featuring the return of Pierre Coffin voicing the minions as well as directing.

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This latest outing is said to be a prequel to the original Minions films and the first Despicable Me and follows three minions in the 1920s who go to Hollywood to pursue their dreams of becoming filmmakers, but they discover a spellbook and accidentally summon a monster.

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While you will have to wait until July 1st to see the film in theaters, you can check out the first poster and trailer here now from Universal and Illumination.