Rise of the Guardians is a 2012 American 3Dcomputer-animatedfantasyaction-adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Peter Ramsey (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire based on the book series The Guardians of Childhood and the short film The Man in the Moon by William Joyce. It stars Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Isla Fisher, and Hugh Jackman. The film tells a story about Guardians Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and the Sandman, who enlist Jack Frost to stop the evil Pitch Black from engulfing the world in darkness in a fight of dreams.
Jack Frost awakens from a frozen pond with amnesia and disappears upon realizing that no one can see or hear him. Three hundred years later, Jack, as the Spirit of Winter, enjoys delivering snow days to schoolchildren, but still feels upset that they do not believe in him. At the North Pole, the Man in the Moon warns Nicholas St. North that Pitch Black is threatening the children of the world with his nightmares. He calls E. Aster Bunnymund/Bunny, the Sandman, and the Tooth Fairy to arms. They are told that Jack Frost has been chosen to be a new Guardian, and Bunny brings him to the North Pole. North explains to Jack that every Guardian has a center, something they are the Guardian of, but a call for help from Tooth's fairies ends the conversation.
Visiting Tooth's world, which resembles a palace in India, Jack learns that each and every baby tooth contains childhood memories of the children who lost it, Jack's teeth included. However, Pitch raids Tooth's home, kidnapping all of her subordinate tooth fairies except Baby Tooth and stealing all the teeth, thus preventing Tooth from sharing Jack's memories and weakening children's belief in her. In order to thwart Pitch's plan, the group decides to collect children's teeth. During their journey, a quarrel between North and Bunny awakens a boy, Jamie. Since he still believes, he can see everybody except for Jack. Pitch's nightmares then attack, provoking Sandy as the Guardian of Dreams. Jack tries to intervene, but Pitch overwhelms Sandy, who seemingly disappears.
As Easter approaches, the dejected Guardians gather in Bunny's home. With the unexpected aid of Jamie's little sister, Sophie, they begin the process of painting eggs for Easter. After Jack takes Sophie home, he is lured to Pitch's lair by a voice. Pitch taunts him with his memories and fear of non-belief, distracting him long enough for Pitch to destroy the eggs, causing children to stop believing in Bunny, who furiously berates Jack. With the Guardians' trust in him lost, a shamed Jack isolates himself in Antarctica, where Pitch tries to convince him to join his side. When Jack refuses, Pitch threatens to kill Baby Tooth unless Jack gives him his staff, the source of his magic. He agrees, but Pitch breaks Jack's staff and throws him down a chasm. Unlocking his memories inside his teeth, he learns that he was a mortal teenager who sacrificed himself to save his younger sister, dying from drowning. Inspired, Jack repairs his staff and returns to the lair to rescue the kidnapped tooth fairies.
Due to Pitch, every child in the world except Jamie disbelieves, drastically weakening the Guardians. Finding Jamie's belief wavering, Jack makes it snow in his room, renewing Jamie's belief and letting him become the first person to ever believe in and see Jack. They gather Jamie's friends, whose renewed belief bolsters their fight against Pitch. He threatens them, but their dreams prove stronger than his nightmares, resulting in Sandy's resurrection and the Guardians reuniting. Defeated and no longer believed in, Pitch tries to retreat, but his nightmares, sensing his own fears, turn on him and drag him to the underworld. Afterwards, Jamie and his friends bid goodbye to the Guardians as Jack accepts his place as the Guardian of Fun.
Cast and characters[]
Chris Pine as Jack Frost, the Spirit of Winter.[9] Jack is a teenage hellion who enjoys creating mischief and has no interest in being bound by rules or obligations; he just wants to use his staff to spread his winter magic for the sake of fun, but also wants to be believed in. Via his staff, he possesses potent cryokinesis. At the end of the film, Jack became the Guardian of Fun.
Jude Law as Pitch Black/The Boogeyman, the essence of fear and the Nightmare King. He has dark hair and wears a black robe/cloak. He also has an English accent because of his voice actor. Despite being the literal embodiment of terror, ironically, at the resolution, he's scared of his own nightmares after being forgotten.[9]
Alec Baldwin as Nicholas St. North, the leader of the Guardians,[9] and the Guardian of Wonder. He lives at the North Pole in the Ice Castle and is served by loyal North Pole natives, the Yetis (who built the castle and workshop) and the Christmas Elves. He has a Russian accent/culture persona.[10]
Hugh Jackman as E. Aster Bunnymund, called Bunny for short, the keeper and bringer of Easter eggs as the Easter Bunny and Guardian of Hope. He shares his voice actor's Australian accent.[9]
Isla Fisher as Toothiana, called Tooth for short, the tooth collector known as the Tooth Fairy and the Guardian of Memories.[9] Tooth is part human and part hummingbird, loosely resembling a Kinnari. Assisted by mini fairies that are split-off extensions of herself, she collects the children's teeth, which hold their most precious memories. Tooth stores them in her palace and returns memories when they are needed the most.[11]
Sandy the Sandman is the Guardian of Dreams and the oldest of the Guardians,[12] being the first Guardian chosen by the Man in the Moon.[13] He doesn't/can't speak, but communicates through sand images that he conjures above his head.[14]
Dakota Goyo as Jamie Bennett, a child who has not given up on believing in the Guardians.[15]
Georgie Grieve as Sophie Bennett, Jamie's little sister
Jacob Bertrand as Monty
Dominique Grund as Cupcake
Olivia Mattingly as Mary, Jack's sister
Ryan Crego as Burgess Dog Walker
Peter Ramsey and April Lawrence as Burgess Pedestrians
Production[]
In 2005, William Joyce and Reel FX launched a joint venture, Aimesworth Amusements,[16] to produce CG-animated feature films,[17] one of which was set to be The Guardians of Childhood, based on Joyce's idea.[18] The film was not realized, but they did create a short animated film, The Man in the Moon, directed by Joyce, which introduced the Guardians idea,[18] and served as an inspiration for the film.[3]
Early in 2008, Joyce sold the film rights to DreamWorks Animation,[19] after the studio assured him it would respect his vision for the characters and that he would be involved with the creative process.[20] In November 2009, it was revealed that DreamWorks had hired Peter Ramsey to make his feature debut as director of what was then titled The Guardians, and playwrightDavid Lindsay-Abaire to write the script, Lindsay-Abaire had previously worked with Joyce by co-writing the screenplay for Robots.[21] Joyce acted as a co-director for the first few years, but left this position after the death of his daughter Mary Katherine,[19] who died in May 2010.[20] Joyce continued to work on the film only as an executive producer, while Ramsey took the helm solo as a full time director, making him the first African American to direct a big-budget CG animated film as well as making it one of the first Dreamworks films to have only one director instead of two and not have a co-director.[22] As with some previous DreamWorks films, Guillermo del Toro came on board to join Joyce as an executive producer. Present almost from the beginning,[23] he was able to help shape the story, character design, theme and structure of the film.[24] He said he was proud that the filmmakers were making parts of the film "dark and moody and poetic," and expressed hope this might "set a different tone for family movies, for entertainment movies."[23] The final title, Rise of the Guardians was announced in early 2011, along with the first cast.[9]
Roger Deakins, the cinematographer who had already worked on the previous DreamWorks' film, How to Train Your Dragon, advised on the lighting to achieve its real look. He selected photographic references for color keys, and during the production gave notes on contrast, saturation, depth of field and light intensity.[25] The film contains a lot of special effects, particularly the volumetric particles for depicting Sandman and Pitch.[26] For this, DreamWorks Animation developed OpenVDB, a more efficient tool and format for manipulating and storing volume data, like smoke and other amorphous materials. OpenVDB had been already used on Puss in Boots and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, and was released in August 2012 for free as an open-source project with a hope to become an industry standard.[27]
Although the film is based on the Joyce's book series, it contains differences from the books. The book series, begun in 2011, explains the origins of the characters, while the film takes place about 300 years after the books, and shows how the characters function in present time. Joyce explained, "Because I don't want people to read the book and then go see the movie and go, 'Oh, I like the book better,' and I also didn't want them to know what happens in the movie. And I also knew that during the progress of film production, a lot of things can change. So I wanted to have a sort of distance, so we were able to invoke the books and use them to help us figure out the world of the movie, but I didn't want them to be openly competitive to each other."[19] The idea for the Guardians came from Joyce's daughter, who asked him "if he thought Santa Claus had ever met the Easter Bunny." The film includes a dedication to her,[20] as well a song, "Still Dream," sung over the end credits.[28]
Originally, the film was set to be released on November 2, 2012, but DreamWorks Animation pushed the film to November 21, 2012 to avoid competition with Pixar's upcoming film Monsters University, which in turn had been pushed to November 2, 2012 to avoid competition with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2.[29]Monsters University was then pushed to June 21, 2013, with Disney'sWreck-It Ralph taking its place.[30]
Music[]
French composer Alexandre Desplat composed the original music for the film, which was released on November 13, 2012 by Varèse Sarabande. The score was recorded in London at Abbey Road Studios and Air Studios, and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, with a choral contribution by London Voices. David Lindsay-Abaire wrote the lyrics for the end-credit song, "Still Dream," which was performed by soprano Renée Fleming.[31] Stravinsky's Firebird Suite can also be heard during the scene where North first appears. This film marks the first time that a DreamWorks Animation film has not been composed by Hans Zimmer or a member of his Remote Control Productions family of composers (mainly John Powell, Henry Jackman, Lorne Balfe, Harry Gregson-Williams or his brother Rupert Gregson-Williams).
Release[]
Rise of the Guardians premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival: Christina Steinberg, producer; Peter Ramsey, director; Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation's CEO; Nancy Bernstein, producer; Bill Damaschke, DreamWorks Animation's Chief Creative Officer
Rise of the Guardians had its premiere on October 10, 2012, at The Mill Valley Film Festival in Mill Valley, California,[2] followed by the international premiere at The International Rome Film Festival on November 13, 2012.[32][33] Under distribution by Paramount Pictures, the film was released on November 21, 2012, in American theaters.[29] Digitally re-mastered into IMAX 3D, it was shown in limited international and domestic IMAX theaters.[34] It was the second film released in the firm Barco's Auro 11.1 3D audio format, after Red Tails.[35] The film was also shown in Dolby Atmos, a surround sound technology introduced in 2012.[36]Rise of the Guardians was the last DreamWorks Animation film distributed by Paramount, as DreamWorks has signed a five-year distribution deal with 20th Century Fox, which started in 2013 with The Croods.[37]
Home media[]
Rise of the Guardians was released on Blu-ray Disc (2D and 3D) and DVD on March 12, 2013.[38]
That was the last DreamWorks Animation home media release to be distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, since 20th Century Fox announced its distribution agreement with DreamWorks Animation a few months before the theatrical release.[37] The film was more successful at home media sales than at the box office, having at the end of the second quarter of 2013 "the highest box office to DVD conversion ratio among major releases."[39] In the first quarter of 2013, it sold 3.2 million home entertainment units worldwide,[40] and in the second quarter 0.9 million units, for a total of 4.1 million units.[41]
It was re-released on DVD on November 5, 2013 and comes with a wind-up marching elf toy.[42] As of October 2014, 5.8 million home entertainment units were sold worldwide.[43] In July 2014, the film's distribution rights were purchased by DreamWorks Animation from Paramount Pictures and transferred to 20th Century Fox.[44] The rights were moved to Universal Pictures in 2018 after the buyout of DreamWorks Animation by Comcast/NBCUniversal. It was re-released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 5, 2018 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
Reception[]
Critical response[]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 74% based on 160 reviews, with an average rating of 6.60/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "A sort of Avengers for the elementary school set, Rise of the Guardians is wonderfully animated and briskly paced, but it's only so-so in the storytelling department."[45]Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 58 based on 37 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".[46] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[47]
Carrie Rickey of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film three and a half stars out of four and found that the film's characters have "a primal familiarity, as though they were developed by a tag team of Maurice Sendak and Walt Disney."[48] Olly Richards of Empire wrote, "It's gorgeously designed, deftly written and frequently laugh-out-loud funny. For child or adult, this is a fantasy to get lost in."[49]The Washington Post's Michael O'Sullivan also gave the film a positive review and said, "Thoughts become things. That's the message of Rise of the Guardians, a charming if slightly dark and cobwebbed animated feature about how believing in something makes it real, or real enough."[50]Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and wrote in his review, "There's an audience for this film. It's not me. I gather younger children will like the breakneck action, the magical ability to fly and the young hero who has tired of only being a name." Though he did say, "Their parents and older siblings may find the 89-minute running time quite long enough."[51]
Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a lively but derivative 3D storybook spree for some unlikely action heroes."[3] Conversely, Justin Chang in Variety said, "Even tots may emerge feeling slightly browbeaten by this colorful, strenuous and hyperactive fantasy, which has moments of charm and beauty but often resembles an exploding toy factory rather than a work of honest enchantment."[52]Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal found that the film "lacks a resonant center," and that the script, "seems to have been written by committee, with members lobbying for each major character, and the action, set in vast environments all over the map, spreads itself so thin that a surfeit of motion vitiates emotion."[53]
Box office[]
Rise of the Guardians grossed $103.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $203.5 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $306.9 million.[5]
In North America, the film opened to $32.3 million over its extended five-day weekend, and with $23.8 million over the three-day weekend, it reached fourth place behind The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Skyfall, and Lincoln. The film's opening was the lowest debut for a DreamWorks Animation film since Flushed Away.[47] While the film did gross more than double of its $145 million budget, it still did not turn a profit for DreamWorks Animation due to its high production and marketing costs, forcing the studio to take an $87 million write-down.[6] This marked the first time that the studio had lost money on an animated film since Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.[6][7] As a result of this combined with other factors, in February 2013, the studio announced it was laying off 350 employees as part of a company-wide restructuring.[7]
Additionally, the studio was heavily dependent on the success of Rise of the Guardians to fund other studio projects, most notably, the ill-fated Me and My Shadow project. But due to the failure to gain a stable box office response, it heavily affected the studio's ability to release original movies.[citation needed]
Accolades[]
The Rome Film Festival and Vanity Fair magazine awarded the new Vanity Fair International Award for Cinematic Excellence in November 2012 to Rise of the Guardians.[32] The film also received the Hollywood Animation Award at the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Festival, held on October 22, 2012.[54]
A video game based on the film was released by D3 Publisher on November 20, 2012 in North America,[64] and released on November 23, 2012 in Europe.[65] It allows gamers to lead the Guardians in their battle against Pitch. The game is a 3D beat-em-up, where the player travels through each of the worlds: Burgess, North Pole, Bunnymund Valley, Tooth Palace, and Sandman's Ship, to fight Pitch's army of Nightmares. The player can switch between all five guardians at any time, and freely customize their powers, and they learn new special abilities as they level up. All the game versions support up to 4-player gameplay.[66] It is available on the Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS.[67]
Possible sequel[]
After the release of the film, the creators of Rise of the Guardians expressed hope that the strong average grade of "A" given to the film by audiences surveyed by CinemaScore and an enthusiastic word-of-mouth would gather support for the "chance to make a sequel or two."[68] Author and co-producer of the series, William Joyce, also mentioned in March 2013 that he was still in talks about a sequel with DreamWorks Animation: "There is something that we are proposing that we hope they will want to do."[69]
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For Mary Katherine Joyce A guardian fierce and true Directed by Peter Ramsey Produced by Christina Steinberg, p.g.a. Nancy Bernstein, p.g.a. Executive Producers William Joyce Guillermo del Toro Michael Siegel Screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire Based on "Guardians of Childhood" The book series by William Joyce and "The Man in the Moon", a Reel FX short film directed by William Joyce Music by Alexandre Desplat Chris Pine Alec Baldwin Jude Law Isla Fisher Hugh Jackman Editor Joyce Arrastia Head of Story Hamish Grieve Production Designer Patrick Marc Hanenberger Visual Effects Supervisor David Prescott Head of Layout Damon O'Bierne Head of Character Animation Gabe Hordos Art Director Max Boas Associate Producers Tom Jacomb Cameron Stevning Production Manager Ryan Harris Visual Consultant Roger Deakins, ASC Animation Supervisors Antony Gray Steven "Shaggy" Hornby Philippe Le Brun David Pate Pierre Perifel Head of Effects Yancy Lindquist Co-Head of Effects Antony Field Supervising Technical Director Ray Forziati Character Effects Supervisor Nathan Fok Lighting Supervisors Sonja Burchard Archie Donato Susan Hayden Annmarie Koenig David C. Lawson Betsy Nofsinger Modeling Supervisor Hyun Huh Surfacing Supervisor Andy Harbeck Character TD Supervisor Arthur Gregory Visual Consultant Alexander McDowell Final Layout Supervisor Michael Trull Matte Painting Supervisor Eric Bouffard Crowds Supervisor Sean Fennell Stereography Willem Drees Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor Richard King Re-Recording Mixers Andy Nelson Jim Bolt Casting by Leslee Feldman Christi Soper Hilt
Charles Adams
Kwesi Davis
Nishkar Grover
Randall Hammond
Mark A. Kauffman
Sreenivasa Kumar Pydi
Eric Scheidemantle
Josh Stratton
Selim Tuvi
Laura Wood
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Kevin Hoppe
Michael Hutchinson
Josiah Larson
Matt Linder
Ilia Lyons
Jimmy Maidens
Kevin McDonald
Samantha Michel
Tom Molet
Pranay Patel
Luca Prasso
Jason Schleifer
Christopher Sprunger
Kenji Sweeney
Pablo Valle
Dick Walsh
Gregory Yepes
===DIGITAL OPERATIONS=== Senior Director Ryan Granard Director Mark M. Tokunaga Staff Engineer Skottie Miller Managers
Donald R. Hibbard
Michael Kiernan
Jeff Rochlin
Dwight Sikkema
Sheng-te Yang
{| |+ Principal Engineers | width="50%" align="right" |Lans Carstensen |Michael Cutler |- | align="right" |Carol J.-Shimabukuro Choy | |}Supervisors
Justin Bennett
Scott Chapin
Ed Granlund
Danny Gallo Hahn
Carl Johnson
Sean Kamath
Mike Pace
Blake Penido
Richard F. Rubio
Gene Takahashi
David Thomas
Jasten Wine
Ali Zaidi
{| |+Technical Leads | width="50%" align="right" |Larry S. Lile |Stephen E. Ross |}Engineering System Administrators
Balaji Alahari
Greg Bulman
John F. Detke
Sean Jain Ellis
David Fisher
Victor H. Guest
Amit Jain
Glenn Lamb
Tzu-Chuan Lin
Richard J. Marco
Keith McKay
Rezk Hakim Mekhael
John Kerry O'Sullivan
Raffi Parikian
Daniel Rich
Doug Staub
Tim Toll
Douglas Wolfe
Charlie Wyse
Operations System Administrators
Rain Angeles
Michael K. Bassler
Shawn Bohonos
Stevey Chen
Chris de Zorzi
David Dinsmore
DJ Downey
Alireza Estakhrian
Bart Feliciano
Jorge González
Anes Khalifa Hadrez
John Harris
Scott A. Kilty
Anthony C. Lanni
David Lee
Derek Mann
Todd Patrick Maugh
David McClure
Othieno L. Okong'o
Michael Perry
Joanne Kanan-Kailee Pham
Deepthi Pullannagari
Julio Cesar Talavera
Alvin Tenpo
Rogelio Yañez
Hardware Engineers
Mike Athanasatos III
Alain Anton Banas
Mauricio Brenes
Zeke Burgess
Michael S. Coronado
Frank Gallego
Adnan Ghani
Edmond D. Howar
Robert Knox
Elvin Korkuti
Wen-Po Bobby Lee
Thanh Lim
John Eddie Lopez
Jemson Myles Montefalcon
Nam Nguyen
Lindsay Oikawa
Josh Patrick
Ernesto Antonio Quiroz II
Brian T. Webb
Sahara Ford-Wernick
Platform Service Operations
Carrie Butler
Dennis Duong
Thomas A. La Porte
Andrew R. Ndungi
Sean Chen
Pavan Kumar Komanduri
Mark Lelles
Resource Administrators
Carl Bahor
Michael C. Bolds
Omar Garcia
Ibrahim Sani Kache
Maya Karp
Julia Lopez
Andrew Martin
Robert C. Tao
Gemma Ross
Enrique Saldívar
Darlene Annette Toledo
Purnanand D. Wagle
Rachel Campbell
Max Sherman
Michael S. Villareal
Pam Waterman
Anita Y. Wong
===TECHNICOLOR INDIA - DREAMWORKS PROJECTS UNIT === {| | width="50%" align="right" |Director |Parimal Aswani |- | valign="top" align="right" |Research and Development |Rakesh Agarwal Satheesh Subramanian |} {| |+Digital Operations | width="50%" align="right" |Arun B |Robin Peter |- | align="right" |Ankit Bagra |Arijit Saha |- | align="right" |Mohamed Javed Fateh |Saibal Saha |- | align="right" |Amit Gupta |Soma Saha |- | align="right" |Korak Kalyan Manna |Jitan Kumar Sahu |- | align="right" |Nisheed Kundhapurath Meethal |Prasad SS |- | align="right" | Murali Mohan SV |G.R. Vinay |- | align="right" | Sandeep Mohan |Ramakrishnan Varadharajan |} ===THANKS TO EVERYONE AT DREAMWORKS ANIMATION AND PDI/DREAMWORKS WHO SUPPORTED THIS PRODUCTION=== Administration
JoAnn Bianchi
Nicholas Brandt
Abe Brown
Kevin Engle
Sue Harrison Marchant
Sam Hinton
Beth Jankus
Rich Lee
Carole Sue Lipman
Nick Loritsch
Grace Marrufo
Debbie O'Keeffe
Cynthia Park
Joe Park
Michele Reed
Cristina Schweitzer
Julie Sherwood
Shawnis Tinker
Peggy Wayne
Business and Legal Affairs
Melissa G. Baldwin
Vinnie Bowling
Yolanda Cooley
Marica De La Lastra
Marissa Downey
David Estrada
Chris Fahland
Elissa Faye
Cheryl Friedman
Matt Garland
Maggie Gibb
Catherine D. Giddings
Cathleen Girdner
Faith Gloria
Kyle Goins
Richard Hamner, Jr.
Bethany Haptas
Abby Harris
Robbin Kelley
Robert Kelly
Jennifer Kuo
Alison Lima
Christopher C. Miller
Kirsten Milliken
Adria Munnerlyn
Alan Myerson
Kam Naderi
Katherine O'Connor
Julie Shikiya-Pascucci
Martha Shipway
Mona Shokrai
Susan Souther
Lynn Stepney
Jennifer Vanse Talluto
Joni Torres
Todd Whitford
Amie Woolweber
Alissa Rowinsky Wright
Development
Beth Cannon
Ben Cawood
Peter Gal
Kristen Grant
Diane Ikemiyashiro
Amie Karp
Chris Kuser
Ian Richter
Damon Ross
Digital Strategy and New Business Development
Derek Bly
Jim Mainard
Annie Morita
Matt Robertson
Brandon Weil
Education
Fred Bunting
Barb Cimity
Joyce Dabney
Victor Fuste
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Tim Ingersoll
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Rick Menze
Bob Morgan
Craig Newman
Hoyt Ng
Kerrin Piche Serna
Michelle Rosell
Connie Siu
Brian Smith
Laurie Torelli
Gigi Yates
Facilities and Shared Services
Matt Bogaard
Thomas Burns
Glenn Cacananta
Genoveva Carmona
Jose Manuel Carrasco
Anthony Fabrizio
Mary Ellen Goodwin
Ann Hesen
Stacy Hibbard
Douglas Paul Isaac
Ryan Jameson
Jimmy Knauf
Nancy Losey
George Lucero
Laura Monteiro
Michael Muzerall
Darren Osti
Richard Press
Mark Rogers
Victor Rubio
Linda Sulett
Brenda Taylor
Bubba Wilson
Finance, Accounting and Operations
Terri Anderson
Kristine Borchard
Cathy Brillon
Monique Buttle
Lisa Chan
Katie Colyer
Dana Corneles
Christopher Cruz
Bruce Daitch
Pavina Desai
Laura Fratianne
Kathleen Fredrickson
Jason Fujimoto
Vandana Gomez
Michael Hatch
Vicki Hunter
Cheryl Jordan
Tami Keaton
Robert King
Kelly Kirby
Michael La Brusciano
Vicki Lan
Fern Lee
Stephanie Lee
Steven Lewandowski
Sherry Liu
Sara Lopez
Lucy Luna
Jane Maltby
Martha Manchanda
Gwendolyn Mason
Ann Mata
Abbey Meris
Victor Nevarez
Shannon Olivas
Angela Page
Ariga Parseghian
Ross Pebley
Velvet Philipps
Susan Ray
Shellie Robin
John Romeo
Debbie Rosell
Alexis Settles
Kris Sims-Roethel
Jessica Tatoian
Betty Tom
Tina Tseng Duke
Dianne Waldman
Bailey Wong
Andy Yoon
Human Resources, Recruiting and Outreach
Kelley Alvarado
Serah Barela
Kelly Barschig
Meredith Berens
Todd Bergstrom
Peter Campbell
Grazia Como
Christy Conover
Alane Chang Conti
Michele Davis
Becky DeSouza
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Mark Dizon
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Anna Valenzuela Fry
Tim Garbutt
Liz Gray
Sally Ho
Rob Hunt III
Deanne Koehn
Cathy Krampert
Susan Leonard
Kim Mackey
Patti Medina
Marissa Narvaez
Chris Nguyen
Tim Norman
Colleen Pierce
Vince Rizzi
Christy Roberts
Beth Sasseen
April Satel
Lorianna Shedlock
Dina Strada
Scott Tu
Nicole Wright
Jennifer Yip
Information Technology
Irwin Aquino
Craig Cochran
Dimna Contreras
Sally Cook
Joseph Dagg
Suzy Figueroa
Zeke Jaggernauth
Sarah Kaleel
Anand Karnati
Natasha Khabarova
Steven Kim
Nichole Lewis
Carol Marshall
Paul Schifferer
Daniel Thota
Marketing, Home Entertainment and Consumer Products
Jason Alex
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Antonio Arias
Kelley Avery
Erika Bach
Lisa Baldwin
Christina Bang
Jeanette Brackeen
Lisa Brin
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Jennifer Caruso
Diana Castellano
Edgar Cayago
Lok Sze J Chan
Mitzie Charles
Sheila Clarke
Rick Clifton
Corinne Combs
Kristy Arganbright Cox
Rae de Mesa
Kim Deziel
Mindy Dickter
Alex Echols
Paul Elliott
Amy Elmer
Roger Estrada
John Fajardo
Barbara Farrow
Brennan Foti
Lisa Freberg
Andrea Frechette
Michael Garcia
Emily Grant
David Hail
Lawrence Hamashima
Michael Hanke
Jeff Hare
Chris Hewish
Robert Hill
Karen Hoffman
Chris Horton
Abe Jamaleddine
Gordon James
Natalie Jones
Linda Kehn
Drei Klibansky
Amy Krider
Richard LaForge
Joe Lawson
Jessica Linares
Jenny Liu
Debbie Luner
Rhion Magee
Stefan Makhoul
Molly Martuza
Yoshi Maruyama
Alyssa Mauney
Scott McCarthy
Sean McGinn
Peter Morfas
Jaimie Nakae
Leslie Peck
Kerry Phelan
Claudio Ramos
Chevion Reese
Rick Rekedal
Kimberly Rice-Bogdan
Zoro Rodriguez
Diana Sahagen
Crystal Santana
Jeremiah Schaeffer
Brian Schwartz
Melissa Scott
Tom Seib
Scott Seiffert
Randy Shoemaker
Todd Smith
Aaron Sobel
Daniel Solnicki
Susan Spencer
Theresa Spinale
Erica Valenzuela
James Wood
Brad Woods
Shao Zhang
Technicolor India - DreamWorks Projects Unit Facility Operations
K Venkatesh Bhat
Dhiman Das
Karan Dalal
Adheena George-Ranjan
Major (Retd) C Gopinathan
Siva Kumar Kasetty
Gouthami Sanath Lingam
Nabarun Modak
Nina Raymond
Dimple Elaine Ross
Anuja Rungachary
Adi Shayan
Sneha Venkatraman
===SPECIAL THANKS=== Kristine Belson ===SONGS===
KEMP'S JIG
Arranged and Performed by
John Bullard
Courtesy of
Bunyan Bullard Music
THE FIREBIRD SUITE FOR ORCHESTRA
Written by Igor Stravinsky
Performed by
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Robert Craft
Courtesy of Naxos
By arrangement with Source/Q
STILL DREAM Music by Alexandre Desplat Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire Produced by Alexandre Desplat Performed by Renée Fleming Renée Fleming appears courtesy of Decca Music Group
Soundtrack Available on
Central Intelligence (2016) • Creed (2015) • Creed II (2018) • Elf (2003) • How to Be Single (2016) • Isn't It Romantic (2019) • It (2017) • It Chapter Two (2019) • The Kitchen (2019) • Mortal Kombat (2021) • Rampage (2018) • San Andreas (2015) • Shaft (2019) • A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011)
Shrek • Spirit • Madagascar • Kung Fu Panda • Monsters vs. Aliens • How to Train Your Dragon • Megamind • The Croods • Trolls • Tales of Arcadia • The Boss Baby • The Bad Guys
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