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WALL-E (the Pixar film,) is dedicated to Justin Wright. Justin was 12 when he had a heart transplant and his make-a-wish was to visit Pixar. He survived the transplant and later became an animator at Pixar. He died of a massive heart attack 3 months before its release.

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After the failure of the 1986 film "Howard the Duck", George Lucas sold some of his assets to recoup the budget, including a computer-animated company to Steve Jobs. That company would go on to become Pixar.

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  1. Alan Tudyk has had a role in every Disney animated film since "Wreck-It Ralph, including the Duke of Weselton in "Frozen", and a character named Duke Weaselton in "Zootopia"

  2. Disney's 1994 film The Lion King was made by their B-team of animators. The company expected Pocahontas to be the bigger hit and had their A-team make that movie.

  3. After TJ Miller got accused of sexual misconduct and called in a fake bomb threat, Dreamworks hired an impersonator to dub over his lines in How To Train Your Dragon 3 to match his performance exactly (it had already been animated) in order to not change the film but still dissociate him from it

  4. Kathryn Beaumont was 13-15 years old when she voiced Alice and Wendy in the original 1950s animated Disney films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). She returned 50 years later to voice the same characters in 2002 for KingdomHearts at the age of 64.

  5. Charlie (Peter Ostrum) from the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was offered a three-picture deal after filming, he declined the offer and bought a horse with his earnings from CATCF which spawned a love for animals, he decided not to pursue acting and he became a vet

  6. Lots-o'-Huggin bear from Toy Story 3 was originally meant to appear in the first film but the technology needed to animate his fur did not yet exist.

  7. A fire burned down the warehouse of the animation company behind the Wallace and Gromit films, destroying "the entire history" of the animation series.

  8. Tom and Jerry producer Fred Quimby, though not involved in the creative process, took all credit for the cartoon's success. Each time the cartoon won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film, he accepted the awards without inviting the animators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, onstage.

  9. The classic 101 Dalmatians animated film sold more tickets in the United States than Avatar or Avengers: Endgame

  10. The Tokyo Olympics will be held in 2020, corresponding with the events in the 1988 anime film Akira, which took place in 2019 leading up to the fictional 2020 Tokyo Olympics

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E.B. White hated the Hanna-Barbera animated film adaptation of his novel Charlotte's Web, saying "The story is interrupted every few minutes so that somebody can sing a jolly song. I don't care much for jolly songs."

The film Titan A.E had an estimated budget of $90 Million. In the end the film only grossed $36.8 million. According to the supervisor of the film, Titan A.E. lost $100 million for 20th Century Fox. After the film's failure, Fox Animation Studios was shut down. - source

1986s Howard the Duck box office failure lead the films producer (George Lucas) to be so badly in debt that he had to sell he just-launched computer-animation division to his friend, Steve Jobs of Apple.That same year, Jobs renamed the company to Pixar. - source

The shortest film nominated for an Oscar was under 2 minutes and a stop animation about making guacamole ~ Fresh Guacamole by PES

In their most productive week, the Pixar team animated 3½ minutes of the film Toy Story (1995) - source

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The Dark Film Noir/Art Deco feel to 'Batman: The Animated Series' was due to the use of black paper with light colours for animation, instead of the industry standard of dark colours on white paper.

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The film Roar (1981) is considered the most dangerous film shoot in history. Over 70 crew members who worked with the predatory animals suffered injuries like bone fractures, scalpings and gangrene.

That, due to the extreme amount of red tape involved in exporting animals, Game of Thrones moves production to the home country of the dogs who portray the Starks' direwolves to film their scenes, rather than attempt transporting them to Ireland.

No Animals Were Harmed' only applies while film is actually recording

The actor who played the farmer in the movie Babe decided to go vegan after working closely with the "extraordinary animals" in the film.

The film "The Hobbit" caused as many as 27 animals deaths during production. One horse had the skin and muscles of her leg torn off by wire fencing, several chickens were mauled to death by unsupervised dogs, and one horse was hobbled and left on the ground for three hours.

When did best animated film become a category?

John Lasseter tried to pitch the idea of a fully computer-animated film to Disney, but the idea was rejected and Lasseter was fired, after that he went on and co-founded Pixar.

The C.I.A. Purchased the Film Rights to George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and Changed its Ending to be More Anti-Communist

Disney was planning on making a short film featuring Mickey Mouse as Christopher Colombus discovering America. It got cancelled because the animation team was unsure how to animate the native people Mickey would have to encounter in a non-offensive way.

John Cena is a fan of Japanese anime and his favorite anime film is Fist of the North Star.

Disney used to film real actors and draw over the video footage to animate movies like Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty

How to make an animated short film?

The film version of George Orwell's book Animal Farm was secretly funded by the CIA.

The animation studio Topcraft, responsible for films like *The Hobbit (1977)* and *The Last Unicorn (1982)*, dissolved and split into two studios. One studio would later work on the TV show *Thundercats*. The other went on to become Studio Ghibli.

Batman: The Animated Series contains a not-so-subtle jab at Joel Schumacher, the director of the infamously cheesy and homo-erotic film "Batman & Robin".

The world's first fully-painted, feature-length film is an animated movie about the life of Vincent van Gogh made up of 56,800 stop-motion paintings. Years in the making, it is scheduled to open this summer on the 125th anniversary of his death.

Producers of Animal House offered Donald Sutherland a fee of either 2% of the film's gross or $35,000. Sutherland had little faith in the movie so he took the $35,000 resulting in a loss of $2.8 million, or upward of $10 million after inflation.

Disney-Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter was FIRED by Disney in the early-1980s after pitching a computer-animated film about forgotten appliances at a summer cabin waiting for their owner to return. He was so ashamed that he didn't admit what happened to even his wife for over 20 years

After George Orwell's death, the CIA secretly bought the rights to 1984 and Animal Farm and clandestinely produced the first film version of 1984 and the critically acclaimed animated film version of Animal Farm.

The pilot episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog was nominated for "Best Animated Short Film" at the 1995 Academy Awards.

Hugh Jackman didn't know that wolverines were real animals until after he started acting in his first X-Men film.

While filming the movie disaster Ishtar, the animal trainer needed to find a blue-eyed camel. He found the perfect one at the first dealer but decided to shop around. Realizing how rare blue-eyed camels are, he returned to the first trader, who had since eaten the camel.

Tom and Jerry's episode where Tom performs Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1946

The last film Sean Connery was ever in was an animated flop called “Sir Billi,” which was about a skateboarding veterinarian who fights the police to help a fugitive beaver.

"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" (2012) received a "no animals were harmed" disclaimer even though close to 30 animals perished during its filming.

Before he ever wrote a feature film, Mel Brooks made an animated short where he improvised the voice of an old Jewish man forced to sit through an art house film. That short was called The Critic and it won him an Oscar.

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