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Chicken Little a 2005 CGI animated film, and the 45th animated feature
produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and the first full CGI film not
created by Pixar. It was written by Mark Dindal and Mark Kennedy with the
screenplay by Steve Bencich, Ron J. Friedman, and Ron Anderson, and was
directed by Mark Dindal. The film was animated in-house at WDFA's main
headquarters in Burbank, California, and released by Walt Disney Pictures
and Buena Vista Distribution on November 4, 2005. It inspired two video
games, one directly based on the movie, the other, Chicken Little: Ace in
Action, based on the inaccurate "movie-within-the-movie" depicting Little
as a buff action hero. Box Office In its opening weekend, Chicken Little debuted at number one, the first Disney animated film to do so since Tarzan (1999) taking $40 million and tying with The Lion King (1994) as the largest opener for a Disney animated film (not including Pixar's films). It also managed to claim the number one spot again in its second week of release, earning $31.7 million beating the Columbia Pictures' sci-fi/family flop, Zathura. With a drop of only 20 percent on the second week, that brought its two week total to $80.4 million. In the end Chicken Little grossed $135,386,665 in North America alone. This is good news for Disney, for not only is it its first CGI movie by its own means, but it also reversed a slump that the company was facing since 2000, during which time it released several flops, most notably Treasure Planet (2002) and Home on the Range(2004), the former credited for destroying Disney's animation department, despite much higher critical reviews than Chicken Little. Overall, critical reception to the film was mediocre at best, with critics such as A.O. Scott, Richard Roeper, and many others panning the movie's narrative weakness. |
