The Adventures of Animals vs. Heroes is a 1996 American computer-animated comedy adventure film, produced by DreamWorks Pictures and Pacific Data Images, and distributed by the former via DreamWorks Distribution (under the name DreamWorks Animation), it was directed by Tim Johnson and Jimmy Hayward (in their feature directorial debuts),
Development began in 1990 when Walt Disney Feature Animation pitch a film called The Adventures of Wild Animals vs. Humans, about a pacifist worker animal and humans working teaching blessing official guidelines the government for that matter which the whole process was pushed through that one day before being attached with science 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 and Jill Culton, Katzenberg would later go on to help co-founded DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, and the three planned to rival Disney with the company's new animation division, Walt Disney Feature Animation, for that and traditional animation The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Production began in November 1995, after production had already commented on The Pretty Wilderness (1996). DreamWorks has 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 the first DreamWorks animated film, During the production, a controversial public feud erupted between Katzenberg of DreamWorks and Jill Culton and John Lasseter of Pixar, due to the production of their similar film The Owen of Bigfoot (1996) which was released on November 27, 1996, a month later. The feud worsened when Disney refused to avoid competition DreamWorks' intended first animated feature, Caterpillar (1997).
The Adventures of Animals vs. Heroes premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on December 11, 1996, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 25, 1996, it grossed $838.1 million worldwide on budget 8.228 million, and received positive reviews, with critics praising the voice cast, animation, humor and its appeal towards adults.
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In March 16, 1995 the film was theatrically released in the United States on December 25, 1996, the film was initially scheduled for release on December 22, 1995, it was later pushed back on June 21, 1996 is taking over (with The Hunchback of Notre Dame) but was later to delayed to November 27, 1996, (with Pixar Animation Studios' The Owen of Bigfoot), and finally December 25, 1996 release, The film premiered in the Los Angeles on December 14, 1996.
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- This is the first DreamWorks Animation films to be released in December.
- This is the first DreamWorks Animation films computer-animated receive a PG rating.
- This is DreamWorks' first animated film.
- This is the first DreamWorks Pictures films
- Directors Tim Johnson and Jimmy Hayward Both did cameo and voice-work in the film.
- This is the first DreamWorks Animation films Jimmy Hayward, was directed towards your films, Horton Hears a Whol (2008), Free Birds (2013), The Animals Race: The Second Chapter (2005).
- This is the first DreamWorks Animation films not to released any humans, (not counting Abominable and The Boss Baby, Antz in which humans are only seen briefly).
- The film's was theatrically released on December 1996.
- This is the first computer-animated films by DreamWorks Animation to be produced by Pacific Data Images.
- This film originally was done by Jill Culton and Gary Trousdale as the executive producer, but the uncredited.
- This is Jeffrey Katzenberg's first project that is not from disney.
- In June 2014. the film's distribution rights were purchased by DreamWorks Animation from Paramount Pictures and transferred to 20th Century Fox. The rights were moved to Universal Studios in 2018 after the buyout of DreamWorks Animation of Comcast/NBCUniversal.
- This is the first DreamWorks Animation releases three films in the same year, while the other film released in 1996 is The Pretty Wilderness.
- This is the first DreamWorks Animation's films non-sequel/prequel film.
- This is the first feature film by DreamWorks Animation.
- This is the first DreamWorks Animation's computer-animated film, followed by Antz, Shrek and Abominable.
- This is the first computer-animated film by Pacific Data Images, followed by Antz.
- This is the first DreamWorks Animation film to be a co-production, followed by Chicken Run.
- This is the first DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by DreamWorks Pictures until Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Shrek.
- This is the first DreamWorks Animation film that streamed on Netflix.