John Christian "Chris" Wedge, is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, cartoonist and voice actor of animation, best known for which film, a 2013 American 3D computer-animated action-adventure film loosely based on William Joyce's children's book "The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs"?
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Chris Wedge John Christian "Chris" Wedge (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, cartoonist and voice actor of animation, best known for the films "Ice Age" (2002), "Robots" (2005), "Epic" (2013) and "Monster Trucks" (2016). He is a co-founder of the animation studio Blue Sky Studios and voiced the character Scrat in the "Ice Age" franchise.
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Epic (2013 film) Epic (stylized as epic) is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated action-adventure film loosely based on William Joyce's children's book "The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs". It was produced by Blue Sky Studios, written by William Joyce, James V. Hart, Daniel Shere, Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember and directed by Chris Wedge, the director of "Ice Age" (2002) and "Robots" (2005). The film stars the voices of Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Aziz Ansari, Chris O'Dowd, Pitbull, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler, and Beyoncé Knowles. The film was released on May 24, 2013 by 20th Century Fox. "Epic" received mixed reviews from critics and earned $268 million on a $93 million budget.
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Animal Logic Animal Logic is an Australian animation and visual effects studio based at Fox Studios in Sydney and Warner Bros. Studios in Los Angeles. Established in 1991, Animal Logic has produced visual effects and animation for feature films such as "The Great Gatsby", "Walking with Dinosaurs 3D", "The Matrix", "300", the Academy Award-winning "Happy Feet", "Moulin Rouge!" and "". Animal Logic also produced the animation on "The Lego Movie", directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller and released in February 2014. Animal Logic was recognised for its work as lead visual effects vendor on Baz Luhrmann’s "The Great Gatsby", when it won Outstanding Achievement in Visual Effects at the 3rd AACTA Awards ceremony.
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Coyote Falls Coyote Falls is a 2010 Looney Tunes film starring characters Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. It is directed by Matthew O'Callaghan, written by , produced by Reel FX Creative Studios and released by Warner Bros. Animation. It is the first Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner movie to be made into CGI in 3D (the first theatrically released 3-D WB animated short since 1953's "Lumber Jack-Rabbit") and it was theatrically released with "".
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Hercules (2014 film) Hercules is a 2014 American 3D action fantasy adventure film directed by Brett Ratner, written by Ryan J. Condal and Evan Spiliotopoulos and starring Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell and John Hurt. It is based on the graphic novel "Hercules: The Thracian Wars". Distributed jointly by Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was released on July 25, 2014. It is one of two Hollywood-studio Hercules films released in 2014, the other one being Lionsgate's "The Legend of Hercules".
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Miss Spider Miss Flora Spider is the title character in the bestselling children's books by David Kirk. She originally appeared in cartoon format in the movie "Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids" (with Brooke Shields providing Miss Spider's voice), which spun off the "Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends" series (with Kristin Davis providing her voice this time around), and "Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends - Harvest Time Hop and Fly" video game. She is also the star of the Miss Spider apps for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
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Percy Jackson (film series) Percy Jackson & the Olympians (also known as Percy Jackson) is an American feature film series based on the novel series of the same name by the author Rick Riordan. The series is distributed by 20th Century Fox, produced by 1492 Pictures and currently consists of two installments. The first film, "" (2010), was directed by Chris Columbus, and was released on February 12, 2010. The second installment, "" (2013) was originally intended to be released in March 2013 but was instead pushed back to August 7, 2013, and was directed by Thor Freudenthal. The series has grossed nearly $430 million at the worldwide box office.
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The Angry Birds Movie The Angry Birds Movie (or simply Angry Birds) is a 2016 3D computer-animated comedy film based on the video game series of the same name, but it can also be interpreted to be a direct prequel to, or origin story behind the original game. Produced by Rovio Animation, it was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks. It was directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly in their directorial debuts, and written by Jon Vitti. The film stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Sean Penn, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader and Peter Dinklage. It is an international co-production between the United States and Finland.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a 2012 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson. It is the first installment in a three-part film adaptation based on the 1937 novel "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is followed by "" (2013) and "" (2014), and together they act as a prequel to Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy. The film's screenplay was written by Peter Jackson, his longtime collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro, who was originally chosen to direct the film before leaving the project in 2010.
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Ice Age: Continental Drift Ice Age: Continental Drift is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Blue Sky Studios. It was written by Jason Fuchs and Michael Berg, and directed by Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier—the first film in the series not to be directed by Carlos Saldanha.
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Christopher Panzner Christopher Panzner (born 1959) is an American artist/writer/producer living and working in France. He has worked for a number of pioneers in the television and film industry, notably as Technical Director for the inventor of interactive television shopping, the Home Shopping Network and as Operations Director, France, for the inventor of the colorization process for black-and-white films, Color Systems Technology. He has developed animation software (Pixibox), designed theme channels (Canal +) and was Managing Director of the Luxembourg-based studio, Luxanima, which shared an International Emmy in 1994 for French CGI series Insektors. He went on to set up an animation/FX studio (motion capture/motion control), Image Effects, where he supervised the creation of 2D animated series "The Tidings" for Entertainment Rights before creating his own studio in the east of France the following year, Talkie Walkie, specializing in pre-production (design, storyboard and layout) and computer production (ink-and-paint/compositing) and whose clients included a Who’s Who of international television animation producers such as SIP, RTV Family Entertainment, Alphanim and Cinar (now called Cookie Jar.) He joined Paris-based production company TEVA in 2001 and was instrumental in the financing and/or the making of five animated features there in 2002–2004: double-Oscar nominated The Triplets of Belleville, Venice Film Festival selection "The Dog, the General and the Birds", "Jester Till", "Blackmor’s Treasure" (Associate Producer) and "Charlie and Mimmo" (Co-Producer). In 2002, TEVA and Mistral Films won the grand prize at IMAGINA for an experimental short film, "The Tale of the Floating World" directed by Alain Escalle, beating such prestigious competition as "Shrek", "Amélie" and "The Lord of the Rings", and was entirely responsible for the fabrication of Storimages’ Pulcinella-winning and International Emmy-nominated special, "Harold Peeble", based on the book by famous French illustrator Sempé. In 2006, "The Triplets of Belleville", "The Dog, the General and the Pigeons" and "Blackmor’s Treasure" were part of an eight-film retrospective of contemporary French animation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called "Grand Illusions: The Best of Recent French Animation."
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Gnomes (film) Gnomes is an American 1980 animated film, based on the book of the same name by the Dutch Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet. The movie was nominated for an Emmy in 1981 for "Outstanding Animated Program".
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The Seventh Dwarf The Seventh Dwarf (German: "Der 7bte Zwerg" ), is a German 3D computer-animated film, created in 2014. The movie is based upon the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty and characters from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It is a sequel to the films "7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood" (2004) and "7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough" (2006).
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Dear Mr. Watterson Dear Mr. Watterson is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Joel Allen Schroeder, produced by Christopher Browne and Matt McUsic, with Andrew P. Waruszewski as the cinematographer. The film follows the career of Bill Watterson, the author of the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes", and the influence of both the author and the comic strip on the world.
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Escape from Tomorrow Escape from Tomorrow is a 2013 American independent dark fantasy psychological horror film, the debut of writer and director Randy Moore. It tells the story of an unemployed father having increasingly bizarre experiences and disturbing visions on the last day of a family vacation at the Walt Disney World Resort. It premiered in January at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was later a personal selection of Roger Ebert, shown at his 15th annual film festival in Champaign, Illinois. The film was a 2012 official selection of the PollyGrind Film Festival, but at the time filmmakers were still working on some legal issues and asked that it not be screened.
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Little England (film) Little England (Greek: Μικρά Αγγλία , "Mikra Anglia") is a 2013 Greek period drama–romance film directed by Pantelis Voulgaris. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Ioanna Karystiani, Voulgaris' wife, and stars Pinelopi Tsilika, Sofia Kokkali, Aneza Papadopoulou and Andreas Konstantinou. The plot revolves around two sisters, Orsa and Moscha from the island of Andros, dubbed "Little England" because of its affluence, who are both in love with Spyros; it starts in the interwar period and ends in the 1950s.
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The Nut Job The Nut Job is a 2014 3D computer-animated heist-comedy film directed by Peter Lepeniotis, who also wrote the film with Lorne Cameron. It stars the voices of Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Gabriel Iglesias, Jeff Dunham, Liam Neeson and Katherine Heigl. Stephen Lang, Maya Rudolph and Sarah Gadon also star in supporting roles. The film is based on Lepeniotis' 2005 short animated film "Surly Squirrel". Produced by Gulfstream Pictures, Redrover International and ToonBox Entertainment, it was released in the United States on January 17, 2014, by Open Road Films. With a budget of $42.8 million, it is the most expensive animated film co-produced in South Korea. The film grossed $64.3 million in North America, for a worldwide total of $120.8 million.
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Twice Upon a Time (1983 film) Twice Upon a Time is a 1983 American animated fantasy comedy film directed by John Korty and Charles Swenson. It is the first animated film produced by George Lucas. The movie uses a form of cutout animation which the filmmakers called "Lumage", involving prefabricated cut-out plastic pieces that the animators moved on a light table.
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Once Upon a Time (2013 film) Once Upon A Time is a 2013 Malayalam animated film, directed by Binu Sasidharan and starring Salim Kumar and Mala Aravindan. Released on 24 May 2013, it is the first animated feature film to be produced in the Malayalam language, and it is Binu's first feature film, opting for a wide theatrical release rather than through domestic release as with his previous works.
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Bunny (1998 film) Bunny is a 1998 computer-animated short film by Chris Wedge and produced by Blue Sky Studios. It has been featured on the original "Ice Age" DVD release from 2002 and its 2006 "Super Cool Edition" re-release.
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The Lorax (film) The Lorax (also known as Dr. Seuss' The Lorax) is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated musical fantasy–comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment and based on Dr. Seuss's children's book of the same name. The film was released by Universal Pictures on March 2, 2012, on the 108th birthday of Dr. Seuss. The second film adaptation of the book (following the 1972 animated television special), the film builds on the book by expanding the story of Ted, the previously unnamed boy who visits the Once-ler. The cast includes Danny DeVito as the Lorax, Ed Helms as the Once-ler, and Zac Efron as Ted. New characters introduced in the film are Audrey (voiced by Taylor Swift), Aloysius O'Hare (Rob Riggle), Mrs. Wiggins, Ted's mother (Jenny Slate), and Grammy Norma (Betty White).
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The Green Hornet (2011 film) The Green Hornet is a 2011 American superhero action comedy film based on the character of the same name by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker that had originated in a 1930s radio program and has appeared in movie serials, a television series, comic books, and other media. Directed by Michel Gondry and written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the film stars Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz, Edward James Olmos, David Harbour, Tom Wilkinson and Cameron Diaz. The film was released to theaters in North America on January 14, 2011 by Columbia Pictures, in versions including RealD Cinema and IMAX 3D. The film earned $227.8 million on a $120 million budget. "The Green Hornet" was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D on May 3, 2011 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.