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Illumination
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Key facts
- Formerly
- Illumination Entertainment (2008–17)
- Company type
- Division
- Industry
- Animation Motion pictures Television specials
- Founded
- January 17, 2007 ; 19 years ago ( 2007-01-17 )
- Founder
- Chris Meledandri
- Headquarters
- 2105 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, California , United States
- Key people
- Chris Meledandri ( CEO ) Keith Feldman ( COO )
- Number of employees
- 100 (2016)
- Parent
- Universal Pictures
- Divisions
- Illumination Labs Illumination Studios Paris
- Subsidiaries
- Moonlight
- Website
- www .illumination .com
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Wikidata facts
- Employees
- 100
- Official website
- www.illumination.com
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- inception
- 2007-01-17
- Commons category
- Illumination Entertainment
- social media followers
- 4320000
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Illumination (formerly known as Illumination Entertainment) is an American animation studio founded by producer Chris Meledandri in 2007. It has an "exclusive financing and distribution partnership" with Universal Pictures (which itself is a division of Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, a unit of NBCUniversal) wherein Illumination produces the films as an independent contractor and Universal finances and distributes them.
The studio is best known for creating the Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets and Sing franchises, as well as the adaptations of Dr. Seuss' books The Lorax and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Nintendo video games, including The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The Minions, characters from the Despicable Me series, are the mascots of the studio.