Showing posts with label Animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animation. Show all posts

The Bad Guys


Release date: March 31, 2022 (Australia)

Director: Pierre Perifel

Box office: $169.4 million

Music by: Daniel Pemberton

Based on: The Bad Guys; by Aaron BlabeyAfter a lifetime of legendary heists, notorious criminals Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Shark and Ms. Tarantula are finally caught. To avoid a prison sentence, the animal outlaws must pull off their most challenging con yet -- becoming model citizens. Under the tutelage of their mentor, Professor Marmalade, the dubious gang sets out to fool the world that they're turning good.


Luca



Release date: June 18, 2021 (USA)

Director: Enrico Casarosa

Story by: Enrico Casarosa; Jesse Andrews; Simon Stephenson

Music by: Dan Romer

Box office: $48.7 million

Screenplay by: Jesse Andrews; Mike Jones

Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, the original animated feature is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: he is a sea monster from another world just below the water's surface.


Scooby!

Initial release: May 13, 2020 (France)
Director: Tony Cervone
Music composed by: Junkie XL
Production companies: Atlas Entertainment, 1492 Pictures, Warner Animation Group
Screenplay: Kelly Fremon Craig, Matt Lieberman, Adam Sztykiel, Derek Elliot, Jack Donaldson

Scooby! in streaming. Since childhood, Sammy Rogers, Fred Jones, Vera Dinkley and Daphne Blake have been friends and solve mysterious investigations with Sammy's dog, Scooby-Doo. They form the Mystère et Cie team. After hundreds of resolved cases and a multitude of adventures, Scooby-Doo and his friends are investigating a global plot intended to unleash the forces of a ghost dog named Cerberus. They will also discover that Scooby has a heavy inheritance and that he is promised a destiny that no one has envisaged.




Spies in Disguise

Initial release: December 4, 2019 (Hollywood)
Directors: Nick Bruno, Troy Quane
Box office: $171.6 million
Budget: 100 million USD
Producers: Michael J. Travers, Jenno Topping, Peter Chernin

Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way. And if this odd couple can't learn to work as a team, the whole world is in peril.




Latte and the Magic Waterstone

Initial release: December 11, 2019 (France)
Directors: Nina Wels, Regina Welker
Producers: Lilian Klages, Thomas G. Müller, Mark Mertens
Story by: Sebastian Lybeck, Veronica Leo
Screenplay: Martin Behnke, Andrea Deppert

Latte and the Magic Waterstone streaming. There is a Magic Waterstone, which has the power to return water to the forest. But it was stolen by Latte, the king of bears. Only a brave hero can bring it back and avoid drought. Amy the little hedgehog and her friend Tom the squirrel then decide to go on an adventure to save nature! It is sometimes the smallest who are the most courageous.

Onward

Initial release: February 29, 2020 (Denmark)
Director: Dan Scanlon
Box office: $103.2 million
Budget: $175–200 million
Screenplay: Dan Scanlon, Jason Headley, Keith Bunin

Teenage elf brothers Ian and Barley embark on a magical quest to spend one more day with their late father. Like any good adventure, their journey is filled with cryptic maps, impossible obstacles and unimaginable discoveries. But when dear Mom finds out her sons are missing, she teams up with the legendary manticore to bring her beloved boys back home.



Marnie's World

Initial release: April 18, 2019 (Germany)
Directors: Wolfgang Lauenstein, Christoph Lauenstein
Language: German language
Screenplay: Wolfgang Lauenstein, Christoph Lauenstein, Jesper Möller, Christoph Silber, Holly-Jane Rahlens, Florian Schumacher
Producers: Jan Bonath, Mark Mertens

House cat Marnie accepts a secret agent job and teams up with a group of runaway animals to track down a notorious gang of thieves.

Smallfoot

Initial release: September 27, 2018 (Hong Kong)
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Box office: 214.1 million USD
Music composed by: Heitor Pereira
Producers: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, Bonne Radford.

Migo is a friendly Yeti whose world gets turned upside down when he discovers something that he didn't know existed -- a human. He soon faces banishment from his snowy home when the rest of the villagers refuse to believe his fantastic tale. Hoping to prove them wrong, Migo embarks on an epic journey to find the mysterious creature that can put him back in good graces with his simple community. Watch Full Movie

Early Man

Initial release: January 20, 2018 (BFI Southbank)
Director: Nick Park
Box office: 54.6 million USD
Budget: 50 million USD
Production companies: Aardman Animations, British Film Institute, UK Film Council

A plucky cave man named Dug, his sidekick Hognob and the rest of their tribe face a grave threat to their simple existence. Lord Nooth plans to take over their land and transform it into a giant mine, forcing Dug and his clan to dig for precious metals. Not ready to go down without a fight, Dug and Hognob must unite their people in an epic quest to defeat a mighty enemy -- the Bronze Age.

Sing

Initial release: December 8, 2016 (Indonesia)
Director: Garth Jennings
Box office: 634.2 million USD
Film series: Sing

Dapper Koala Buster Moon presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. An eternal optimist, and a bit of a scoundrel, he loves his theater above all and will do anything to preserve it. Facing the crumbling of his life's ambition, he takes one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world's greatest singing competition. Five contestants emerge: a mouse, a timid elephant, a pig, a gorilla and a punk-rock porcupine.

Ronal The Barbarian

Initial release: September 29, 2011 (Denmark)
Directors: Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen, Philip Einstein Lipski, Thorbjørn Christoffersen
Budget: 18 million DKK ($3,068,796)
Featured song: Barbarian RhApsody
Box office: 2.049 million USD

A group of muscular barbarian warriors are kidnapped by evil Volcazar, and only Ronal, the weakest and most cowardly of them can save them.

Teen Titans GO! To The Movies

Initial release: July 26, 2018 (Lebanon)
Directors: Aaron Horvath, Peter Rida Michail
Box office: 52 million USD
Budget: 10 million USD
Producers: Will Arnett, Aaron Horvath, Peter Rida Michail, Michael Jelenic, Peggy Regan

It seems that all the major superheroes out there are starring in their own movies -- all but the Teen Titans. Robin is bound and determined to remedy that situation by becoming a star instead of a sidekick. With a few madcap ideas and a song in their hearts, the Teen Titans head to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams. Things soon go awry, however, when a supervillain plans to take over the planet -- putting the very fate of the young heroes on the line.

Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)

Initial release: November 5, 2018 (Los Angeles)
Directors: Phil Johnston, Rich Moore
Box office: $435.1 million
Budget: 175 million USD

Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope's video game, "Sugar Rush." In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet -- the netizens -- to help navigate their way, including an entrepreneur named Yesss, who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of trend-making site BuzzzTube.

Wonder Park (2019)


Initial release: March 15, 2019 (USA)
Directors: Robert Iscove, Clare Kilner
Budget: 100 million USD
Production companies: Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Animation, Ilion Animation Studios
Producers: Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Don Hahn, Jessica Bendinger

Wonder Park tells the story of a magnificent amusement park where the imagination of a wildly creative girl named June comes alive.

Toy Story 4

Initial release: June 20, 2019 (Brazil) Trending
Director: Josh Cooley
Screenplay: Andrew Stanton
Film series: Toy Story
Producer: Jonas Rivera


Toy Story 4 is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated comedy film, and the third sequel to Toy Story.

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Initial release: February 8, 2019 (USA)
Director: Mike Mitchell
Producers: Dan Lin, Roy Lee
Production companies: Warner Bros. Animation, Vertigo Entertainment, Warner Animation Group
Screenplay: Phil Lord, Chris Miller

The citizens of Bricksburg face a dangerous new threat when LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space start to wreck everything in their path. The battle to defeat the enemy and restore harmony to the LEGO universe takes Emmet, Lucy, Batman and the rest of their friends to faraway, unexplored worlds that test their courage and creativity.

Despicable Me

Initial release: July 8, 2010 (Kazakhstan)
Directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Featured song: Despicable Me
Box office: 543.1 million USD
Cast: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Pierre Coffin,

A man who delights in all things wicked, supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) hatches a plan to steal the moon. Surrounded by an army of little yellow minions and his impenetrable arsenal of weapons and war machines, Gru makes ready to vanquish all who stand in his way. But nothing in his calculations and groundwork has prepared him for his greatest challenge: three adorable orphan girls (Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Elsie Fisher) who want to make him their dad.

Despicable Me 2

Initial release: June 20, 2013 (Australia)
Directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Featured song: Happy
Box office: 970.7 million USD

Now that Gru (Steve Carell) has forsaken a life of crime to raise Margo, Agnes and Edith, he's trying to figure out how to provide for his new family. As he struggles with his responsibilities as a father, the Anti-Villain League -- an organization dedicated to fighting evil -- comes calling. The AVL sends Gru on a mission to capture the perpetrator of a spectacular heist, for who would be better than the world's greatest ex-villain to capture the individual who seeks to usurp his power.

Hotel Transylvania (2012)

Initial release: September 20, 2012 (Australia)
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Featured song: The Zing
Box office: 358.4 million USD
Producer: Michelle Murdocca

In 1895, Dracula builds a resort in Transylvania, hidden from the humans, to raise his beloved daughter Mavis in a safe environment. In the present, the place is the Hotel Transylvania, where monsters bring their families to vacation far from the frightening humans. Dracula invites his friends - Frankenstein and his wife Eunice; Wayne and Wanda, the werewolves; Griffin, the invisible man; Murray, the mummy; Bigfoot, among others - to celebrate the 118th birthday of Mavis. When the party is ready to start, the 21-year-old Jonathan is walking through the forest and stumbles upon the hotel. Dracula sees Jonathan and disguises him as a monster to hide Jonathan from the guests. But Mavis also sees Jonathan and Dracula forces him to pose as a monster. Soon Mavis believes that Jonathan is the "zing" of her life despite the advice of her father about humans.

Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Initial release: September 21, 2015 (United Arab Emirates)
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Featured song: I'm in Love with a Monster
Box office: 473.2 million USD
Initial DVD release: January 12, 2016 (USA)

Now that Dracula (Adam Sandler) has opened the Hotel Transylvania's doors to humans, things are changing for the better; however, Drac is secretly worried that his half-human grandson, Dennis, isn't showing his vampire side. So, while Mavis and Johnny are away, Drac enlists his friends to help him put the boy through a "monster-in-training" boot camp. But things really get batty when Drac's cantankerous, old-school dad (Mel Brooks) pays an unexpected visit.