For their fifth fully-animated feature-film collaboration, Illumination Entertainment 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. (UNIVERSAL)
Louis C.K. (NBC’s “Parks and Recreation”, FX’s “Louie”) leads the voice cast. Kevin Hart is the popular comic actor known for his stand-up concerts and films such as 2015’s “The Wedding Ringer” with Josh Gad and this summer’s “Central Intelligence” co-starring Dwayne Johnson. Eric Stonestreet plays Cam on the ABC comedy series “Modern Family”. Jenny Slate won a Critics Choice Award for her performance in the 2014 indie comedy “Obvious Child”. Albert Brooks is no stranger to animated films, having voiced Marlin in 2003’s “Finding Nemo” and this summer’s Pixar sequel “Finding Dory”, as well as Russ Cargill in “The Simpsons Movie” (2007).
Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic in 2006 at the age of 7. To date, Jackson has written nearly 1,000 reviews of new releases and, in total, has seen more than 1,500 films. In 2010, Jackson became the youngest person to win a NY Emmy Award, for his on-air movie reviews on Time Warner TV station, Capital News 9. And in 2011, Jackson was inducted into the Broadcast Film Critics Association as their youngest member. The BFCA’s annual Critics Choice Awards is one of the industry’s most recognized and prestigious awards shows. Jackson is also a member of SAG-AFTRA and votes annually for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Currently, Jackson can be heard every Friday morning on WGNA-FM and his reviews are also posted on his website, YouTube channel and Cultjer.com. He is also a contributor to AnimationScoop.com, run by animation historian Jerry Beck. And Jackson hosts the weekly internet pop culture news show “LCJ LIVE”, along with “The LCJ Q&A Podcast”, on which he interviews celebrities and filmmakers.