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The Animals Movie is an 2005 American live-action/CGI generation animated adventure comedy film directed by Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg. The film was produced by Ted V. Miller, Michael LaPai, Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Robert Zemeckis, Mireille Soria and Colin Wilson. The film stars the voice talents of Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, John Goodman, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Ben Stiller, Jaden Pinkett Smith, Claire Danes, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz.

The Animals Movie received eight Oscar nominations: Best Animated Feature, Best Visual Effects, Best Picture, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Score.

It received mixed reviews from critics, but was a success at the box office, and was one of the biggest-selling films of 2005. The film title will be released on December 30, 2005 in the United States by Universal Pictures.

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The CGI environment, CGI animation, performance capture and visual effects were provided by Stick-creative Studios, Industrial Light & Magic, Pacific Data Images/DreamWorks Animation and Rhythm and Hues Studios, who is animated using Pixar RenderMan and Autodesk Maya. The film was also animated using live-action motion capture animation.

Music[]

The music was composed by Hans Zimmer, who is collaborated with DreamWorks Animation on Shark Tale and Madagascar.

Release[]

The Animals Movie was released in both conventional and IMAX 3D theaters on December 30, 2005. The 2018 reissued version of the film was released on December 14, 2018.

IMAX 3D version[]

In addition to standard theatrical 35mm format, a 3D version for IMAX was also released, generated from the same 3D digital models used for the standard version.

Marketing[]

The official trailer was released on May 24, 2005 before Madagascar in theaters. The final trailer was released on October 3, 2005 before Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in theaters.

Home media[]

The film was released on DVD as separated widescreen and full-screen versions in single and two-disc special editions (with bonus features) and on VHS on April 25, 2006, several months after the film came out. It was released on HD-DVD with bonus features in October 31, 2006 and on Blu-ray with bonus features on November 4, 2008, both presented in the original widescreen aspect ratio. The 2018 reissued version of the film was released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on February 5, 2019 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment as a Walmart exclusive & Target exclusive steelbook,[1] and was subsequently given a wider release on June 4.[2]

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  1.  1 In July 2014, the film's distribution rights were purchased by DreamWorks Animation from Paramount Pictures and transferred to 20th Century Fox.[1] The rights were moved to Universal Pictures in 2018 after the buyout of DreamWorks Animation by Comcast/NBCUniversal.

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  1. "DreamWorks Animation Q2 Earnings Fall Short of Estimates, SEC Investigation Revealed", Variety, July 29, 2014. Retrieved on July 30, 2014. 

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Films directed Firelight (1964) • Slipstream (1967) • Amblin' (1968) • Night Gallery ("Eyes" segment, 1969) • L.A. 2017 (1971) • Duel (1971) • Something Evil (1972) • Savage (1973) • The Sugarland Express (1974, also wrote) • Jaws (1975) • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, also wrote) • 1941 (1979) • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) • Twilight Zone: The Movie ("Kick the Can" segment, 1983) • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) • The Color Purple (1985) • Empire of the Sun (1987) • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) • Always (1989) • Hook (1991) • Jurassic Park (1993) • Schindler's List (1993) • The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) • Amistad (1997) • Saving Private Ryan (1998) • A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, also wrote) • Minority Report (2002) • Catch Me If You Can (2002) • The Terminal (2004) • War of the Worlds (2005) • Munich (2005) • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) • The Adventures of Tintin (2011) • War Horse (2011) • Lincoln (2012) • Bridge of Spies (2015) • The BFG (2016) • The Post (2017) • Ready Player One (2018) • Funimals (2018) • The Hampster Movie (2019) • West Side Story (2020) • Gwen and Dan: Level Two (2021)
Films written Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973) • Poltergeist (1982, also produced) • The Goonies (1985)
Films produced An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) • Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) • Flags of Our Fathers (2006) • Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) • Super 8 (2011) • The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) • Penguinopolis (2018)
Television Amazing Stories (1985–87) • High Incident (1996–97) • Invasion America (1998)
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Feature films Antz (1998) • Shrek (2001) • Shrek 2 (2004) • Shark Tale (2004) • Madagascar (2005) • Over the Hedge (2006) • Shrek the Third (2007) • Bee Movie (2007) • Kung Fu Panda (2008) • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) • Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) • How to Train Your Dragon (2010) • Shrek Forever After (2010) • Megamind (2010) • Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) • Puss in Boots (2011) • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) • Rise of the Guardians (2012) • The Croods (2013) • Turbo (2013) • Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) • How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) • Penguins of Madagascar (2014) • Home (2015) • Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) • Trolls (2016) • The Boss Baby (2017) • Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) • How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) • Abominable (2019) • Trolls World Tour (2020)
Traditionally-animated films The Prince of Egypt (1998) • The Road to El Dorado (2000) • Joseph: King of Dreams (2000 direct-to-video) • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) • Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
Produced with Aardman Chicken Run (2000) • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) • Flushed Away (2006)
Produced with Movie Land Animation Studios Funimals (2018) • The Hampster Movie (2019) • The Legend of Disguise (2020)
Upcoming films Jin (2020) • The Croods 2 (2020)
Franchises ShrekMadagascarKung Fu PandaMonsters vs. AliensHow to Train Your DragonTales of Arcadia
Television specials Shrek the Halls (2007) • Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space (2009) • Merry Madagascar (2009) • Scared Shrekless (2010) • Kung Fu Panda Holiday (2010) • Madly Madagascar (2013) • Trolls Holiday (2017)
Short films Shrek 4-D (2003) • Far Far Away Idol (2004) • The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper (2005) • First Flight (2006) • Hammy's Boomerang Adventure (2006) • Secrets of the Furious Five (2008) • B.O.B.'s Big Break (2009) • Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon (2010) • Megamind: The Button of Doom (2011) • Night of the Living Carrots (2011) • Gift of the Night Fury (2011) • Book of Dragons (2011) • Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters (2011) • Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos (2012) • Rocky and Bullwinkle (2014) • Dawn of the Dragon Racers (2014) • Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll (2016) • DreamWorks Theatre (2018) • Bird Karma (2018) • Bilby (2018)
People Bill DamaschkeChris MeledandriJeffrey Katzenberg
Subsidiaries DreamWorks ChannelDreamWorks Classics (Big Idea EntertainmentHarvey EntertainmentJay Ward Productions)
Related topics AmblimationDreamWorks Pictures (DreamWorks RecordsDreamWorks TelevisionDreamWorks InteractiveGo Fish Pictures) • Illumination (Illumination Mac Guff) • In amusement parks (DreamWorks Experience) • Pacific Data ImagesPearl StudioUniversal Animation Studios (Unproduced projects) • List of productions (Other programsUnproduced projects)
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Filmography
Released Stickman: The Movie (2014) • Reggie and the Penguin (2015) • Loppy the Dog (2016) • Birds (2017) • The Street of San Francisco (2017) • The Polar Express (2017) • Eddie (2018) • Major Lazer: The Movie (2018) • Penguinopolis (2018) • Smash of Claws (2018) • The Wampanoag Movie (2018) • The Hi-Tech and Science Fiction Movie (2018) • Doug (2018) • Funimals (2018) • Stuart Little (2018) • Sarcastics (2018) • Animals of Spy (2018) • Light It Up (2019) • Birds 2 (2019) • The Hampster Movie (2019) • Stickman 2: Larry's Adventure (2019) • Sphere (2019) • The Crown (2019) • Charlotte's Web (2019) • Animal Party (2019) • Car Chase (2019) • Ghost in the Shell (2019) • Star Trek (2019) • Loppy the Dog 2: The Second Movie (2019) • GoGo Tomago (2019) • Sarcastics 2 (2019) • The Great Spy Racers (2019) • Chunko (2020) • Ned's Newt (2020) • The Legend of Disguise (2020) • Spanish Empire (2020) • Twister (2020) • The Trumpet of the Swan (2020) • Technoville (2020) • Scrambled Eggs Super! (2020) • The Hunger Games (2020)
Produced with Sony Pictures Animation The Animals in the Attic (2019) • The Secret Life of Animals 2 (2019) • Dimensions (2019) • Shaun and Roger: Roger Breaks the Internet (2019) • Gwen and Dan (2019) • Carmen Sandiego (2019) • Hoverboard (2019) • Chocolate Fever (2019) • Spider-Gwen (2019) • Go (2019) • Everest (2019) • Grossology (2019) • Bunny (2019) • Cool Girls (2020) • Spectrum (2020)
Upcoming Romeo and Juliet (2020) • Las Vegas (2020) • Mr. Magoo (2020) • Spider-Gwen 2 (2020) • Panko the Dragon (2021) • Famous 5 (2021) • Carmen Sandiego 2 (2021) • Voltron (2021) • The Hollow (2021) • The Last Kids on Earth (2021) • Grossology 2 (2021) • Untitled Romeo and Juliet sequel (2022)
Produced with Aardman Animations The JH Movie Collection Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
Upcoming The JH Movie Collection Movie: The Fate of the Tour (2020) • The JH Movie Collection Movie 4: Lost in Florida (2021)
As Ted-LaPai Productions A Bird's Tale (1994) • The Secret of Ace (1995) • Cycle Throughout the World (1996) • Life of Animals (1996) • Power Up (1997) • One Little Rabbit (1997) • El Fuego (1997) • A Trip to Denmark (1998) • The Secret of Ace 2 (2000) • Yeti (2000) • A Bird's Tale 2 (2000) • Life of Animals 2 (2001) • MagnusLos Altos (2002) • Two Little Rabbits (2002) • Bunnies on the Streets (2003) • The Animals Movie (2004) • Kevin the Lost Dog (2006) • A Trip to Los Angeles (2007) • The Final Chapter (2008)
Upcoming Faster Bike (2020) • Cuphead (2020) • Jin (2020) • Carlos & Ricky: Into the Future (2020) • Reggie and the Penguin 2 (2020) • Shank (2020) • Spy Penguins (2020)
Associated productions Sarcastics (2018)
Direct-to-video films The Hunger Games (2020)
Television series Stickman: The Series (2016-present) • Tom the Hand (2016-present) • All Hail Loppy the Dog (2017-present) • How Penguins Goes to Kansas (2017; television film) • The JH Movie Collection Show (2018-present) • The Christopher the Stickman Show (2020-present)
Franchises Stickman (2014-present) • Loppy the Dog (2016-present) • The JH Movie Collection Movie (2018-present) • Sony's Movie Land Universe (2019-present) • Tom the Hand (season 3; 2016, 2019-present)
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Directors Ted V. MillerRobert ZemeckisStephen HeneveldMike MitchellDon HallPhil Lord and Christopher MillerChris WilliamsChris MillerJenny HarderBob PersichettiPeter RamseyRodney RothmanTom McGrathWilliam RenschenElla RayDominic FormellaAlejandro MunozMarcos Rivera
Producers Chris MeledandriKristina ReedBonnie ArnoldRoy ConliRoy LeePhil Lord and Christopher MillerJordan KernerDon HahnDarla K. AndersonDan LinJohn LasseterAvi AradAmy PascalWilliam RenschenElla RayDominic FormellaAlejandro MunozMarcos Rivera
Writers Karey KirkpatrickNicholas StollerRodney RothmanPhil Lord and Christopher MillerJordan RobertsJohn DavisPeter LordNick ParkWilliam Renschen
Executives/Associated figures Ted V. MillerMichael LaPaiMonty LaBuenoGeorge MacGuffinChristopher MacGuffinChris Meledandri
Animators and visual/special effects artists Gal GadotJamie ChungBex Taylor-KlausJeffrey KatzenbergRich MooreRoy ConliGary TrousdalePhil Lord and Christopher MillerSteven SpielbergDuncan RouleauSteven T. SeagleSteven YeunJenny HarderHailee SteinfeldShiyoon KimPanat ThamrongsombutsakulJohn KnollCraig HammackSimon J. SmithSamik Roy ChoudhuryErik-Jan de BoerCedric Nicolas-TroyanEmilio Ruiz del Río
Signature voice actors/actress Ben StillerAdam SandlerJim CarreyGal GadotHailee SteinfeldJamie ChungBex Taylor-KlausMichael J. FoxAndy SambergKeegan-Michael KeyRihannaJohn DiMaggioTenzing Norgay TrainorShameik MooreJake Johnson
Signature musicians Henry JackmanJames Newton HowardLorne BalfeMajor LazerAlan MeyersonDaniel Pemberton
Signature character designer Monty LaBuenoRonnie del CarmenJin KimShiyoon Kim
Visual Development & Storyboard Artists Dante EriksenCody CameronAndrew StantonShiyoon KimJin KimGeoff JohnsRonnie del Carmen
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Related media and projects Birdy AnimationTouchstone Animation StudiosSphere Ball StudiosShank FilmsPanko and Panda Studios
Miscellaneous Warner Bros. films (Unproduced Warner Bros. projectsWAG filmsWarner Bros. animated filmsWarner Bros. Animation franchises and productions)
See also Movie LandMovie Land EntertainmentWarner Bros. PicturesWarner Bros. AnimationWarner Animation GroupAcquisition of Movie Land by Warner Bros.The JH Movie Collection Movie (2018) • Gwen and Dan: Level Two (2020)