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Titanic became the first film since the fugitive to top the box office for five consecutive weekends and gross more than 20 million for. Woody allen mostly writes and directs romantic comedies and dramas but antz is a computer animated comedy adventure film where allen simply provided the voice for one of the characters. Titanic became the first film since the birdcage to top the box office for four consecutive weekends.
Directed by eric darnell tim johnson.
Antz bug s life. Weekend end date film box office notes ref. A bug s life is a 1998 computer animated action adventure comedy drama disney pixar film directed by john lasseter with andrew stanton co directing. Antz grossed a healthy us 171 8 million internationally though roughly half of a bug s life s us 363 3 million. A bug s life was more family friendly and lighthearted in tone and story.
It was next followed by the studio s brief forays into traditional animated. Das große krabbeln originaltitel. One day z visits a psychologist ant and in an extended. Where antz was rough around the edges politically savvy and surprisingly dramatic a bug s life is an enjoyable but slight offering whose technical brilliance disguises a very thin story.
Dreamworks jeffrey katzenberg left disney in 1994 and said the idea for antz came from a 1991 story pitch by tim johnson that was related to katzenberg in october 1994. Michael says he s a huge woody allen fan but has only seen antz. Michael thought that a bug s life was much better than antz. A bug s life ist der zweite abendfüllende vollständig computergenerierte animationsfilm der pixar animations studios der im februar 1999 in den deutschen kinos anlief er basiert lose auf der handlungsidee von akira kurosawas historienfilm die sieben samurai in dem eine gruppe ein dorf vor unterdrückern retten soll.
However disney had been working on developing an ant film since 1988. The film is loosely inspired by the fable the ant and the grasshopper and the classic samurai film the seven samurai it is the second pixar movie and tells the story of an outcast inventor ant named flik who recruits a group of circus. Antz played off more realistic aspects of ants and how they relate to other bugs like termites and wasps while a bug s life offered a more fanciful look at insects to better suit its story. The two films especially differ in their artistic look.
Dreamworks animation s similar film antz was released a little more than a month before a bug s life. He isprincess bala s betrothed. A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves. He is voiced by woody allen.