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Illumination

American animation film production company

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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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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.