Antz (1998)
Antz (1998)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Woody Allen
Z-4195 βZβ (voice)
Sharon Stone
Princess Bala (voice)
Dan Aykroyd
Chip (voice)
Anne Bancroft
Queen (voice)
Danny Glover
Barbatus (voice)
Gene Hackman
General Mandible (voice)
Jane Curtin
Muffy (voice)
Sylvester Stallone
Weaver (voice)
Jennifer Lopez
Azteca (voice)
Christopher Walken
Colonel Cutter (voice)
John Mahoney
Grebs (Drunk Scout) (voice)
Paul Mazursky
Psychologist (voice)
Grant Shaud
Foreman (voice)
Jim Cummings
Additional Voices (voice)
April Winchell
Additional Voices (voice)
Jerry Sroka
Additional Voices (voice)
Harry Gregson-Williams
Original Music Composer
Eric Darnell
Director
Brad Lewis
Producer
Patty Wooton
Producer
Chris Weitz
Screenplay
Aron Warner
Producer
Stan Webb
Editor
Todd Alcott
Screenplay
Tim Johnson
Director
Paul Weitz
Screenplay
John Powell
Original Music Composer
Don Weinger
Set Designer
Justin Kohn
Animation
Sandra Rabins
Executive Producer
Penney Finkelman Cox
Executive Producer
Carl Rosendahl
Executive Producer
Leslee Feldman
Casting
Bob Badami
Music Editor
Jennifer Nash
Music Editor / Thanks
Brian Richards
Music Editor
Jane Hartwell
Production Manager
David Lipman
Thanks
Brad Reinke
Thanks
Denise Nolan Cascino
Production Supervisor
Nina Jacobson
Thanks
John Bell
Production Design
Terry Claborn
Color Timer
Erica Frauman
Post Production Supervisor
Michael Kahn
Thanks
Adam Valdez
Animation
Damon Bard
Sculptor
Adam Shankman
Choreographer
Carol Norton
Editorial Coordinator
George Bruder
Supervising Technical Director
Kendal Cronkhite
Art Direction
Gary L. Wohlleben
Production Controller
Annmarie Koenig
Lighting Artist
Nick Foster
Visual Effects
Devon Miller
First Assistant Editor
Ken Bielenberg
Visual Effects Supervisor
John Pospisil
Special Sound Effects
Frank Fleming
Sound Recordist
Marcy Dicterow-Vaj
Orchestrator
Michael Cutler
Systems Administrators & Support
Sonny Pettijohn
Assistant Sound Editor
Craig Ring
Lighting Supervisor
Gregg Landaker
Sound Mixer
Rahul Chandrakant Thakkar
Researcher
Stephen Sobisky
3D Modeller
Shannon Jeffries
Production Illustrator
Jennifer Dahlman
Production Coordinator
Hans Zimmer
Executive Music Producer
Rex Grignon
Supervising Animator
Ted Elliott
Creative Consultant
Jennifer Freeman
Visual Effects Coordinator
Mark Jan Wlodarkiewicz
Sound
Gavin Greenaway
Additional Music
James Buckhouse
Layout
Richard L. Anderson
Supervising Sound Editor
Julia Evershade
Sound Editor
Bruno Roussel
Assistant Sound Engineer
Sven E. Fahlgren
Post Production Coordinator
Gary Burritt
Negative Cutter
Maggie Rodford
Music Coordinator
Dan O'Connell
Foley Artist
Catherine Dingman
Story Coordinator
Mike Cachuela
Story Artist
Linda Lew
Foley Recordist
Raman Hui
Character Designer
John T. Cucci
Foley Mixer
Rupert Gregson-Williams
Conductor
Adam Milo Smalley
Supervising Music Editor
Lisa Zusmer DelPrete
Executive Assistant
Zak Penn
Story Consultant
Avram D. Gold
Supervising Dialogue Editor
Christi Soper Hilt
Casting Assistant
Simon J. Smith
Head of Layout
Tim Keon
Senior Animator
David R. Fent
Assistant Editor
Sandy Holt
ADR Voice Casting
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 2, 1998
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 23m
Content RatingPG
Budget$60,000,000
Box Office$171,757,863
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Wiki.
Antz is a 1998 American animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation (in its debut film) and Pacific Data Images and released by DreamWorks Pictures. It was directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson (in their feature directorial debuts) from a screenplay by Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz, and Paul Weitz. The film features the voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover and Gene Hackman. Some of the main characters share facial similarities with the actors who voice them. The film involves an anxious worker ant, Z (Allen), who falls in love with Princess Bala (Stone). When the treacherous scheming of the arrogant officer General Mandible (Hackman) threatens to wipe out the entire worker population, Z must save the ant colony from the flooded tunnel and strives to make social inroads.
Development began in 1988 when Walt Disney Feature Animation pitched a film called Army Ants, about a pacifist worker ant teaching lessons of independent thinking to his militaristic colony. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Katzenberg had left the company in a feud with CEO Michael Eisner over the vacant president position after the death of Frank Wells. Katzenberg would later go on to help co-found DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, and the three planned to rival Disney with the company's new animation division. Production began in May 1996, after production had already commenced on The Prince of Egypt (1998). DreamWorks had contracted Pacific Data Images (PDI) in Palo Alto, California, to begin working on computer-animated films to rival Pixar's features. Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell composed the music for the film, marking their first animated film. During its production, a controversial public feud erupted between Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks and Steve Jobs and John Lasseter of Pixar, due to the production of their similar film A Bug's Life, which was released a month later. The feud worsened when Disney refused to avoid competition with DreamWorks' intended first animated release, The Prince of Egypt.
Antz premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 19, 1998, and was released theatrically in the United States on October 2, 1998. It grossed $171.8 million worldwide on a budget of $42β105 million and received positive reviews, with critics praising the voice cast, animation, humor, and its appeal towards adults.