Western hits with local flavor

With The Secret Life of Pets, He Jiong and Chen Peisi join a growing list of Chinese celebrities on the voice-over bandwagon. Xu Fan reports.

Following The Little Prince and Kung Fu Panda 3, The Secret Life of Pets is the latest foreign animation feature to use Chinese star power to gain attention in the world's second-largest movie market.

Illumination Entertainment, known for the Despicable Me franchise, has used He Jiong, a TV anchor, and Chen Peisi, a veteran actor, to do voice-overs for two characters in the Mandarin version of The Secret Life of Pets.