Gwen and Dan

Gwen and Dan is an upcoming 2019 American animated science fiction fantasy adventure action comedy spy film produced by Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Movie Land Animation Studios, The Stone Quarry, Arad Productions, Lord Miller Productions , Shank Films , and Pascal Pictures, it was directed by Gary Trousdale, Zack Snyder and Genndy Tartakovsky, produced by Zack Snyder, Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Christina Steinberg, written by Chris Columbus and Doug Sweetland, and stars the voices of Scarlett Johansson, Josh Gad, John C. Reilly, Adam Sandler, Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis, Hailee Steinfeld, Jamie Chung, Jonah Hill, David Cross, Bex Taylor-Klaus and Gal Gadot. The film follows a young gamer named Gwen Edward Hernandez and her partner and best friend Dan Miller, who use a virtual reality machine to go through many different dimensions that act like a video game to stop some dangers occurring in each world.

It is an international co-production of the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark and Japan. Plans for Chocolate Fever to be developed by Jamie Chung were first revealed in 2015, and officially announced by Bex Taylor-Klaus in the late 2015. Ted, Randy and Pidge joined over the next two years, with Jamie Chung and Steve Carell cast in July 2017. Ted V. Miller and Randy Thom wanted the film to have its own unique style, combining Movie Land Digital Production Services' computer animation pipeline with traditional hand-drawn animation production techniques and computer technology systems. Completing the animation for the film required up to 140 animators, the largest crew ever used by Sony Pictures Animation for a film to date.

Gwen and Dan had its world premiere at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles on May 31, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 7. It has grossed over the same thing as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, unlike $375 million worldwide against a $90 million budget. It received praise for its animation, characters, story, voice acting, humor and soundtrack. It won numerous awards, including Best Animated Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards, 47th Annie Awards, and 77th Golden Globe Awards. On November 7, 2017, the sequel film will be in development.

Plot
This is a story about Gwen Edward Hernandez who loves using a types of video games she want to play. Gwen was born in May 7, 1997 at Posen, Illinois and she is one year old. She created the picture used for her own personal experience in town.

Cast

 * Scarlett Johansson as Gwen Edward Hernandez, one of the two gamers who travel through different dimensions via virtual reality. She is 18 years old and the one who hopes to reach her goal by fixing every world.
 * Taylor Somenzi as a younger Gewn Edward Hernandez
 * Josh Gad as Dan Miller, one of the two gamers who travel through different dimensions via virtual reality. He is Luna's partner and the fun-loving one who likes to play around in some worlds.
 * Max Charles as a younger Dan Miller
 * Scott Adsit as Ralph, a robot who befriends with Gwen and Dan
 * John C. Reilly as Robert, a mysterious player who Gwen and Dan encounter during their adventure in virtual reality. He is the one who wants to go after the duo so he can win the "games".
 * Adam Sandler as Cody, a player who decides to play along with Gwen and Dan
 * Bill Hader as Slim, an awkward robotic alien in the space world.
 * Jason Sudeikis as Jackie Hernandez, Gwen's father and Ashley's husband.
 * Jennifer Lawrence as Maya Hernandez, Gwen's mother and Joshua's wife who is an agent working for the VRC.
 * Hailee Steinfeld as Alexandra, Gwen's best friend.
 * Jamie Chung as Jessica, Dan's girlfriend.
 * Jonah Hill as Larry, Slim's advisor.
 * David Cross as Lenny, a male journalist yeti.
 * Keegan-Michael Key as Steven, one of the robotic aliens in the space world. He is the clumsy and dim-witted one who wants to help Gwen and Dan rather than just killing them.
 * Bex Taylor-Klaus as Addison, a female person who specializes in electromagnetics.
 * Gal Gadot as Alexa K. Hernandez, Gwen's stepmother.
 * Will Arnett as Timmy, a friend of Dan.
 * Tim Allen as John, one of Dan's friends and Timmy's younger brother.
 * Simon Pegg as Gabriel, a member of the VRC.
 * Justice Smith as Vouchaey, an relaxing bunny rabbit.
 * Henry Jackman as Lammy, an annoying squirrel.
 * Ryan Potter as Flap O'Hailee
 * Alan Tudyk as Damien, a salesman who sells things at a store he owns.
 * Chris Sanders as Gnaw, an insane alien in the space world who believes Gwen and Dan are monsters.
 * Gary Rydstrom as David
 * Chris Pratt as Ollie
 * Gary Hall as Computer Voice
 * Jackie Chan as Giant

Development
In March 2018, it was reported that Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation and Movie Land Animation Studios had acquired the rights to make a movie, to adapt it into a hand-drawn computer animated feature film, as a partnership between Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Movie Land Animation Studios, The Stone Quarry, Arad Productions, Lord Miller Productions, Shank Films and Pascal Pictures with Gary Trousdale, Zack Snyder and Genndy Tartakovsky attached to direct it.

Movie Land Animation Studios had already begun the process of starting development of movies with budgets of around $320 million. The intellectual property for these films was meant to be supplied by Movie Land Animation Studios among others and included Penguinopolis, Smash of Claws, The Animals in the Attic and Stickman 2: Larry's Adventure had been approaching the original crew from the television series to make a high-profile, animated theatrical feature-length film adaptation and had long wanted to partner with Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation to release the film given the network's extraordinary legacy in the world of animation, including some of the most enduring characters on cable television history.

Gary Trousdale, Zack Snyder and Genndy Tartakovsky agreed to make a feature film version of the show with the promise it would be the first of a planned trilogy. During development stages of the film, he and his co-director Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman, and co-writer Conrad Vernon, intended to revisit some of the greatest films of the time, with Atlantis: The Lost Empire, The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, Wonder Woman, The Emoji Movie, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Animals in the Attic having the core inspirations for the film.

Writing
In March 2015, Nicholas Stoller revealed via Twitter that he had begun writing the screenplay for the film along with Nicholas Stoller, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Ralph Eggleston, Karey Kirkpatrick and Sergio Pablos.

Casting
On April 2019, it was confirmed that Jamie Sparer Roberts are all hired as casting directors for the movie. That same month, Scarlett Johansson has signed on to voice Gwen Edward Hernandez.

Animation
As with The Star, Sony Pictures Animation will have the animation produced by another studio other than Sony Pictures Imageworks, which handles digital production for most of SPA's films. For this film, Chocolate Fever will be animated by WarnerMedia's Movie Land Digital Production Services and will also be animated in a combination of motion capture along with photo-realistic computer animation.

The character and hand-drawn animation, special visual effects, computer graphics and stereoscopic 3D conversion were done by WarnerMedia's Movie Land Digital Production Services who had made 2,300 shots for The JH Movie Collection Movie 2: The Second Part and was made using Autodesk Maya. The rendering for the movie was rendered by Pixar RenderMan. The stereoscopic 3D conversion were done by Gener8. The crew used the same processes from the original television series in the making of the film, most notably the 'skroutlines', which was a seamless blend of a more traditional screenplay with a more simple outline which resembled strong short stories and gave the storyboard artists such as Maurice Fontenot, Abigail Nesbitt and Guy Moore all the creative and aesthetic freedom neccessary. Warburton and Willems themselves provided the film's animatics.

Pre-production
Pre-production officially began in the United Kingdom by early December 2015. That same month, director Gary Trousdale, Zack Snyder and Genndy Tartakovsky and the co-director Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman stated that the film will be another great love story with a new love interest being cast. The next month, production designer Bill Boes was announced to be designing the film's production designer, as well as Kasia Walicka-Maimone, also making the movie as costume designer.

Music
The score for the movie was composed by Henry Jackman and James Newton Howard, and was mixed and recorded by Alan Meyerson at Remote Control Productions. The film originally had no songs until six months into production when the suggestion of making the film a musical came from Toby Emmerich who was recently elected as chairman of the Sony Pictures Entertainment at the time. The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 7, 2019 during the theatrical release film date and on Compact Disc on June 11, 2019 by Sony Classical Records.

Sound
The sound for Gwen and Dan is recorded, designed and edited at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California with James Likowski supervising the sound editorial, Gary Rydstrom designing and re-recording the sound, Randy Thom supervising the sound designing, and Addison Teague and Alan Meyerson editing the sound to create the final sound mix for the movie.

Technology
PIX System provided the production crew with secure access to production content and project management throughout the suite of devices used.

Release
The movie will be released theatrically on June 7, 2019 in IMAX, RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema and 2D theaters by Sony Pictures Releasing.

Marketing
Very little information about the film's plot and characters were revealed until Sony eventually released a teaser trailer and poster for it on November 17, 2018, with the former using the song "Zero" from Imagine Dragons to introduce the beginning of the film. Four month later, the film's first full trailer was released in two versions, both offering different content. On April 26, 2019, the film's final trailer was released only in the United States.


 * The teaser trailer was released on November 17, 2018 and was shown before Ralph Breaks the Internet, Funimals, Stuart Little, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Sarcastics, Mary Poppins Returns, Bumblebee, Aquaman and Welcome to Marwen
 * The first trailer was released on March 1, 2019 and was shown before The Hampster Movie, Captain Marvel, Wonder Park, Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, Dumbo, Shazam and Missing Link
 * The second and final trailer was released on April 26, 2019 and was shown before UglyDolls, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, The Crown and Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Box office
As of April 26, 2019, Gwen and Dan has grossed $2.421 million in the United States, Canada and German, and $233 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $399.5 million, against a production budget of $304 million.

On March 2, 2019, the film surpassed Hotel Transylvania 2 to become Sony Pictures Animation's highest grossing film domestically, unadjusted for inflation.

In the United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and Mexico, Gwen and Dan was released on June 7, 2019, and was projected to gross $30–35 million from 3,813 theaters in its opening weekend. It made $12.6 million on its first day, including $3.5 million from Thursday night previews, and went on to debut to $35.4 million, finishing first at the box office and marking the best-ever December opening for an animated film. The film made $16.7 million in its second weekend, finishing fourth behind newcomers Aquaman, Bumblebee, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Sarcastics and Mary Poppins Returns, and then $18.3 million in its third weekend, finishing fourth again. In its fifth weekend the film made $13 million, finishing in fourth for a third straight week. The weekend following its Best Animated Picture win, the film was added to 1,661 theaters (for a total of 2,104) and made $2.1 million, marking a 138% increase from the week before.

Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 90% based on 141 reviews, with an average rating of 8.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Gwen and Dan " offers a colorful distraction that should keep younger viewers entertained - and a story whose message might even resonate with older audiences." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 92 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it 4 out of 5 stars.

Accolades
Gwen and Dan won Best Animated Feature Film at the 47th Annie Awards, the 76th Golden Globe Awards, the 25th Critics' Choice Awards, the 73rd BAFTA Film Awards, and earned numerous other accolades, including a Best Animated Feature nomination at the 92nd Academy Awards. along with many other awards and nominations. It was also the second non-Disney or Pixar film to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature since 2011's Rango as well as the 7th non Disney/Pixar film to win this award. It was also the first non-Disney or Pixar film to win the Academy Awards for Best Feature Film since Fighting with My Family as the first Movie Land Animation Studios film to win this platinum award.