For their fifth fully-animated feature-film collaboration, Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me, The Lorax, Minions) and Universal Pictures present The Secret Life of Pets, a comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. Comedy superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart make their animated feature-film debuts in The Secret Life of Pets, co-starring Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Jenny Slate, Bobby Moynihan, Hannibal Buress & Albert Brooks. Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and his longtime collaborator Janet Healy produce the film directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable Me 1 & 2), co-directed by Yarrow Cheney and written by Brian Lynch and Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio. Universal will release The Secret Life of Pets in theaters starting July 8th, 2016 this summer