FREE! Family Outing @ Movie Screening: MINIONS & MONSTERS (River East)

WINDY CITY DADS have been given a block of reserved seats for this advance movie screening, where some of our members and family can enjoy in exchange to help promote this film.

Before you RSVP, please read through all of the following list of EXPECTATIONS required to participate in this sponsored event...

We invite you and your family (or come alone) to join us for FREE Advance Movie Screening of this film. We have a total of 10 reserved seats for our WINDY CITY DADS group to enjoy this sponsored event together. Everyone including guests must check-in prior to 6:15 PM and participate in our GROUP PHOTO. We also ask that every family before leaving the event, take and upload a minimum of 3+ Engagement Photo's to our meetup site of your family enjoying the event so we can share with our sponsor as a thank you for this opportunity.

ALL our members who attend our sponsored events, must WEAR their **Windy City Dads Group SHIRT** to the meetup, which does a few things; makes it easy for other Windy City Dads at the event to find you in the crowd while promoting our group. It also helps our members be more clearly recognized so our sponsor can tell which group we are with, plus it looks amazing in our group photo and member engagement photos that we know our sponsors really likes seeing too. If you don't have your own Windy City Dads Group SHIRT, you can buy from our Merch Store at Swag.WindyCityDads.com. We feel this is a small ask that builds member engagement and appreciation for our free sponsored events. It’s a good thing to do.

For those of you on social media, we ask that you share your family photos on your personal accounts like Facebook tagging our "Windy City Dads" using hashtag #WINDYCITYDADS so we can share, like and comment, which will help broaden our social media reach in an effort to expand our audience and ultimately get more members to join our meetup group. By doing so will help us get more sponsored opportunities.

Guest check-in table is usually placed near ticket collection; this is where we usually meetup to get a group photo. Parking and concessions are your responsibility.

ONLY!!! RSVP (+Guests) if you are 100% committed to going, checking in on-time and fully participate as noted above, since we don't want any seats to be empty. Once you RSVP, no changes can be made, your crew must attend -- no exceptions! If by chance you're no-show or change your RSVP, than you will loose the privilege to be included with any future advance screenings. Our waitlist is for the organizer to use, only if event sponsor increases our head count, if this happens then Brian Dykes will reach out to members via meetup messenger, so make sure your meetup notifications are turned ON so that you won't miss out. Thanks!

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MINIONS & MONSTERS – In Theaters July 1
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Fresh off the worldwide blockbuster success of summer 2024’s funniest comedy, Despicable Me 4, Illumination expands its joyful animated universe with a riotous new chapter, featuring all-new characters, in the biggest global animated franchise in history: Minions & Monsters.
This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.
The acclaimed voice cast includes Academy Award® winner Allison Janney, two-time Academy Award® winner Christoph Waltz, Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges, two-time Academy Award® nominee Jesse Eisenberg, Zoey Deutch (Nouvelle Vague) and Academy Award® nominee and comedy iconoclast Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park. The cast also includes Saturday Night Live alum Bobby Moynihan and Phil LaMarr (Futurama, King of the Hill).
Minions & Monsters is directed by Academy Award® nominee Pierre Coffin, a director of the first three Despicable Me films and the first Minions film. Coffin has also provided the voice for the Minions since their film debut in 2010. The film is written by Brian Lynch (Minions, The Secret Life of Pets films) and Pierre Coffin and is produced by Illumination’s Academy Award® nominated founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and by Bill Ryan (executive producer, The Super Mario Bros. Movie). The executive producer is Brian Lynch.
More than ten years after their creation, the Minions have become the most iconic animated characters of their generation. Globally recognized and beloved by fans of all ages, they have propelled Illumination’s Despicable Me and Minions to a global box office of more than $5.6 billion.
Cast: Allison Janney, Christoph Waltz, Jeff Bridges, Jesse Eisenberg, Zoey Deutch, Bobby Moynihan, Phil LaMarr, with Trey Parker and Pierre Coffin
Written by: Brian Lynch and Pierre Coffin
Directed by: Pierre Coffin
Produced by: Chris Meledandri, Bill Ryan
Executive Producer: Brian Lynch

Posted 06/16/26