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List Of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Theatrical Animated Features
This is a list of theatrical animated feature films produced or released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Films US releases Highest grossing films Notes Release Notes Studio/Production Notes See also * List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer theatrical animated features American animated films * Animation Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ... Lists of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Lists of American animated films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by amazon (company), Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 and based in Beverly Hills, California. MGM was formed by Marcus Loew by combining Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Productions, Louis B. Mayer Pictures into one company. It hired a number of well known actors as contract players—its slogan was "more stars than there are in heaven"—and soon became Hollywood's most prestigious film studio, producing popular musical films and winning many Academy Awards. MGM also owned film studios, movie lots, movie theaters and technical production facilities. Its most prosperous era, from 1926 to 1959, was bracketed by two productions of ''Ben-Hur (1959 film), Ben Hur''. After that, it divested itself of the Loews movie theater chain, and, in the 1960s, diversified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sullivan Bluth Studios
Don Bluth Entertainment (formerly Sullivan Bluth Studios) was an Irish-American animation studio established in 1979 by animator Don Bluth. Bluth and several colleagues, all of whom were former Disney animators, left Disney on September 13, 1979, to form Don Bluth Productions, later known as the Bluth Group. This studio produced the short film ''Banjo the Woodpile Cat'', the feature film ''The Secret of NIMH'', a brief animation sequence in the musical '' Xanadu'', and the video games ''Dragon's Lair'' and ''Space Ace''. Bluth then co-founded Sullivan Bluth Studios with American businessman Gary Goldman, John Pomeroy and Morris Sullivan in 1985. The studio initially operated from an animation facility in Van Nuys, California, and negotiated with Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment to make the animated feature ''An American Tail''. During its production, Sullivan began to move the studio to Dublin, Ireland, to take advantage of government investment and incentives offered by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount Animation
Paramount Animation is an American animation studio, serving as the animation division and label of Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Paramount Global. The division was founded on July 6, 2011, following the box office success of Paramount's own ''Rango (2011 film), Rango'' and the end of their distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation in 2012. The studio's first film ''The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water'' was released on February 6, 2015, and its latest release being ''Rumble (2021 film), Rumble'' on December 15, 2021, with their next releases being ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem'' on August 4, 2023 and ''Under the Boardwalk (2022 film), Under the Boardwalk'' on an unspecified date. Films produced by Paramount Animation have grossed a total of $604.1 million at the box office. Its highest-grossing film to date is ''The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water'', which grossed $325.1 million. Background After the closure of Famous Studios, Paramount Cartoon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherlock Gnomes
''Sherlock Gnomes'' is a 2018 3D computer-animated mystery comedy film directed by John Stevenson. Based on the character Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the film serves as a sequel and spin-off to ''Gnomeo & Juliet'' (2011). It stars the voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Ashley Jensen, Matt Lucas, Stephen Merchant, Ozzy Osbourne, Mary J. Blige, Jamie Demetriou, and Johnny Depp. The animation was provided by Mikros Image and Reel FX Creative Studios. The film was released in the United States on March 23, 2018, by Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which replaced the previous film's distributor, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (through Touchstone Pictures). It was notable for being Paramount's first animated film to be entirely animated since 2011's '' Rango'', Paramount Animation's first film to be entirely animated, and MGM’s first animated film since 2008's ''Igor''. It received generally neg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sparx Animation Studios
Sparx* is a French-Vietnamese 3D art, VFX and animation studio, with around 400 artists, animators and technical experts. The French offices closed in 2008, while the American and Vietnamese offices closed in 2010. Since 2011, Sparx* has been a member of Virtuos Group - one of the world's largest game developers. It was reopened in Ho Chi Minh City in 2011. For over two decades, the studio, based in Ho Chi Minh City, has been working with different digital entertainment publishers in the movie and game industries, and has also contributed to AAA video games, Hollywood movies, and TV series across the globe. History Sparx* was previously known as Sparx* Animation Studios. Founded in 1995 and opened in 2002, by Jean-Christophe Bernard, Guillaume Hellouin and Fabrice Giger, Sparx* first made its mark co-producing TV series that were aired in multiple countries across five continents, and became well known for co-producing ''Rolie Polie Olie'' with Nelvana and Disney Channel w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor (film)
''Igor'' is a 2008 computer-animated horror comedy film directed by Tony Leondis from a screenplay by Chris McKenna. ''Igor'', developed and produced by Max Howard with the California-based Exodus Film Group, was the first feature-length animated film to be financed with private equity. The animation was completed at France's Sparx Animation Studios and a facility in Vietnam. It was distributed in North America by MGM Distribution Co. and internationally by The Weinstein Company. It is MGM's first fully computer-animated film as well as the studio's first fully animated film in twelve years following 1996's ''All Dogs Go to Heaven 2''. ''Igor'' features the voices of John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, Sean Hayes, Jay Leno, Eddie Izzard, Jennifer Coolidge, Arsenio Hall, John Cleese, Molly Shannon, and Christian Slater. Conceived by McKenna as a twisting of evil scientist film tropes, ''Igor'' features Cusack as the titular Igor, who lives in the kingdom of Malaria where others of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EuropaCorp
EuropaCorp S.A. (stylised in opening logo as EUROPA CORP.) is a French motion picture company headquartered in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, and one of a few full service independent studios that both produces and distributes feature films. It specializes in production, distribution, home entertainment, VOD, sales, partnerships and licenses, recording, publishing and exhibition. EuropaCorp's integrated financial model generates revenues from a wide range of sources, with films from many genres and a strong presence in the international markets. Over 14 years, EuropaCorp has produced and co-produced over 80 films and is now distributing over 500 titles after the integration of the RoissyFilms Catalogue. The studio is mainly known for its expertise in the production of English-language films with strong earning potential in the international marketplace. The company developed and produced the successful '' Taken'' trilogy and the '' Transporter'' series. The company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur And The Invisibles
''Arthur and the Invisibles'' or ''Arthur and the Minimoys'' (French: ''Arthur et les Minimoys'') is a 2006 English-language French fantasy adventure comedy animated/live-action film directed and co-written by French filmmaker Luc Besson. It is based on the first two books of the ''Arthur'' children's books series, ''Arthur and the Minimoys'' and ''Arthur and the Forbidden City'', by Besson. ''Arthur and the Invisibles'' was released theatrically in France on 29 November 2006 by EuropaCorp, followed by wide releases in a number of countries. It was re-released in France on 4 April 2007 with nineteen minutes of bonus footage. With a budget of €60 million, it was briefly the most expensive French film production, until it was surpassed by '' Astérix at the Olympic Games'' (2008). It received positive reviews from critics in France but was received negatively in the United States, with criticism aimed at the animation and script, but praises for the voice performances and visual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Dogs Go To Heaven 2
''All Dogs Go to Heaven 2'' is a 1996 American animated musical fantasy adventure film, and a sequel to Goldcrest Films' animated film ''All Dogs Go to Heaven'' (1989). Produced by MGM/UA Family Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation, it was co-directed by Paul Sabella and Larry Leker. Dom DeLuise reprises his role from the first film, alongside new cast members Charlie Sheen, Ernest Borgnine and Bebe Neuwirth, respectively. New characters are voiced by Sheena Easton, Adam Wylie and George Hearn. Don Bluth, the director of the original film, had no involvement with it. It was the second of only two theatrical sequels to a film directed by Don Bluth to not involve Bluth himself, the first being '' An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'', as 13 sequels to ''The Land Before Time'' and a single sequel to ''The Secret of NIMH'' were direct-to-video releases along with two sequels of ''An American Tail'' in 1998–2000, as well as ''An All Dogs Christmas Carol''. This was MGM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pebble And The Penguin
''The Pebble and the Penguin'' is a 1995 Irish-American independent animated film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. The film stars the voices of Martin Short, Jim Belushi, Tim Curry, and Annie Golden. Based on the true life mating rituals of the Adélie penguins in Antarctica, the film focuses on a timid, stuttering penguin named Hubie who tries to impress a beautiful penguin named Marina by giving her a pebble that fell from the sky and keep her from the clutches of an evil penguin named Drake who wants Marina for himself. Towards the end of production, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer significantly changed the movie, forcing Don Bluth and Gary Goldman to leave their film and demand to have their names taken off the film. The two would later start working at Fox Animation Studios. The film was released in the United States on April 12, 1995, by MGM/UA Distribution Co., receiving negative reviews from critics and being a box office bomb, grossing only $3.9 million against a $28 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Dogs Go To Heaven
''All Dogs Go to Heaven'' is a 1989 animated musical fantasy adventure comedy-drama film directed by Don Bluth and co-directed by Gary Goldman (his directorial debut) and Dan Kuenster. It tells the story of Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds), a German Shepherd that is murdered by his former friend, Carface Carruthers (voiced by Vic Tayback, in his penultimate film role). Charlie withdraws from his place in Heaven to return to Earth where his best friend, Itchy Itchiford (voiced by Dom DeLuise), still lives, in order to take revenge on Carface. Instead, he ends up befriending a young orphan girl named Anne-Marie (voiced by Judith Barsi in her final film role; posthumously). In the process, Charlie learns an important lesson about kindness, friendship and love. The film is an Irish, British and American venture, produced by Goldcrest Films and Sullivan Bluth Studios Ireland Ltd. On its cinema release, it competed directly with Walt Disney Feature Animation's ''The Littl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelvana
Nelvana Enterprises, Inc. (; previously known as Nelvana Limited, sometimes known as Nelvana Animation and simply Nelvana or Nelvana Communications) is a Canadian animation studio and entertainment company owned by Corus Entertainment. Founded in 1971 by Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert and Clive A. Smith, it was named after Nelvana of the Northern Lights, the first Canadian national superhero, who was created by Adrian Dingle. The company's production logo is a polar bear looking at Polaris, the North Star. The company is based in Toronto, Ontario, and it maintains international offices in France, Ireland and Japan, as well as smaller offices in the top three cities in the U.S. Many of its films, shows and specials are based on licensed properties and literature, but original programming is also part of its roster. Although the company specializes in children's media, Nelvana has also co-produced adult animations like ''Clone High'', '' John Callahan's Quads'', '' Bob & Marg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
