Epic (2013)

Director:

Chris Wedge

Writers:

Tom J. Astle (written by)
Matt Ember (written by)
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Release Date:

24 May 2013 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Family | Fantasy

Tagline:

Discover a world beyond your imagination

Plot:

A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world -- and ours. |

Plot Keywords:

Based On Book

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Blake Anderson	...	Dagda (voice)
Aziz Ansari	...	Mub (voice)
Allison Bills	...	Dandelion Jinn (voice)
Jim Conroy	...	Race Announcer (voice)
Todd Cummings	...	Fruit Fly (Old) (voice)
John DiMaggio	...	Pinecone Jinn (voice)
Troy Evans	...	Thistle Jinn (voice)
Colin Farrell	...	Ronin (voice)
Jason Fricchione	...	Bufo's Goon (voice)
Judah Friedlander	...	Taxi Driver (voice)
Helen Hong	...	Thistle Lady (voice)
Josh Hutcherson	...	Nod (voice)
Kelly Keaton	...	Berry Lady (voice)
Emma Kenney	...	Marigold Girl (voice)
Kyle Kinane	...	Biker Dude (voice)
Beyoncé Knowles	...	Queen Tara (voice)
Anthony Lumia	...	Fruit Fly (Young) (voice)
Malikha Mallette	...	Jinn Mom (voice)
Joe Massingill	...	Stickman Jockey (voice)
Edie Mirman	...	Flower Jinn (voice)
Chris O'Dowd	...	Grub (voice)
Pitbull	...	Bufo (voice)
Rosa Salazar	...	Roller Derby Girl (voice)
Amanda Seyfried	...	Mary Katherine (M.K.) (voice)
Jason Sudeikis	...	Bomba (voice)
Steven Tyler	...	Nim Galuu (voice)
Christoph Waltz	...	Mandrake (voice)
Allison Weber	...	Flower Kid (voice)
Dan Green	...	Finn (voice)
Matt Adler	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Ashley Albert	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Stephen Apostolina	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Eric Bradley	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Jeremy Bowker	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Dennis T. Carnegie	...	Additional Voices (voice)
David Cowgill	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Randy Crenshaw	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Moosie Drier	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Roger Freeland	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Jackie Gonneau	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Bridget Hoffman	...	Additional Voices (voice)
E.J. Holowicki	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Rif Hutton	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Edie Lehmann	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Hope Levy	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Selenis Leyva	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Brian Scott McFadden	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Jake Moulton	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Eric Nelsen	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Chris Phillips	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Lori Prince	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Michelle Ruff	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Christopher Scarabosio	...	Additional Voices (voice)
John Storey	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Byron Thames	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Randy Thom	...	Additional Voices (voice)
David Zyler	...	Additional Voices (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jason Harris	...	(voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Chris Wedge

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Tom J. Astle		written by
Matt Ember		written by
James V. Hart		written by
William Joyce		based from the book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs
William Joyce		written by
Daniel Shere		written by

Produced by
Jerry Davis	....	producer
Lori Forte	....	producer
James V. Hart	....	executive producer
William Joyce	....	executive producer
Michael J. Travers	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Danny Elfman		(music by)

Cinematography by
Renato Falcão

Film Editing by
Andy Keir		(film editor)
Tim Nordquist		(co-editor)

Casting by
Christian Kaplan

Production Design by
Greg Couch
William Joyce

Art Direction by
Michael Knapp		(as Mike Knapp)

Set Decoration by
Isaac Holze

Production Management
Mark Jacyszyn	....	associate production manager
Angel G. Salinas	....	associate production manager
Steve Barnett	....	post-production supervisor (uncredited)

Art Department
Myke Bakich	....	storyboard artist
Mike Borkowski	....	storyboard artist
Tyler Carter	....	designer
Sheng-Fang Chen	....	senior previs artist
Bryan Cox	....	story animatics
Karen Disher	....	additional storyboard artist
Andrew Hickson	....	designer
Tom LaBaff	....	storyboard artist
Tony Maki	....	storyboard artist
Sandeep Menon	....	designer
Stephen P. Neary	....	storyboard artist
Vicki Saulls	....	lead sculptor
Dan Shefelman	....	storyboard artist
Chris Siemasko	....	story animatics
David S. Smith	....	development artist
David S. Smith	....	storyboard artist
Rachel Tiep-Daniels	....	design/visual development
Rafael Zentil	....	storyboard artist

Sound Department
Jeremy Bowker	....	sound effects editor
Danny Caccavo	....	digital editorial support
Derek Casari	....	stage engineer
P.J. Corvus	....	audio technical support
Mark DeSimone	....	adr mixer: New York
Luke Dunn Gielmuda	....	foley supervisor
Sean England	....	foley mixer
Ryan J. Frias	....	digital editorial support
Jason Harris	....	adr loop group director
Bill Higley	....	adr mixer: New York
Lora Hirschberg	....	sound re-recording mixer
Leff Lefferts	....	sound re-recording mixer
David Lucarelli	....	adr recordist
Dmitri Makarov	....	assistant effects editor
Kyrsten Mate	....	sound effects editor
Greg J. Peterson	....	foley recordist
Roni Pillischer	....	adr recordist
Ric Schnupp	....	sound recordist
Brad Semenoff	....	dialogue editor
Kent Sparling	....	sound effects editor
Randy Thom	....	sound designer
Randy Thom	....	sound re-recording mixer
Corey Tyler	....	foley mixer
Tony Villaflor	....	assistant re-recording mixer
Rabb Whitehead	....	adr recordist
Bonnie Wild	....	digital editorial support
Gwendolyn Yates Whittle	....	supervising sound editor
Kimberly Patrick	....	sound design intern (uncredited)
Qian Bai Hui Yang	....	sound design intern (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Daniel Abramovich	....	stereoscopic supervisor
Inna Agujen	....	senior technical director: assembly
Brian Anderson	....	character technical director
Jeffrey Arnold	....	senior lighter
Elvis Au	....	stereoscopic technical director
Lynn Bacino	....	lighting lead
Heather Barrons	....	digital compositor
Dugan Beach	....	character simulation technical director
Ian Blewitt	....	digital compositor
Jorge Bobadilla Jr.	....	senior lighter
Heather Brown	....	visual effects artist
Bela Brozsek	....	visual effects
Sam Calabrese	....	assembly technical director
Pablo Calvillo	....	previs
Jacob Carlson	....	associate production manager: character/crowd simulation
Christine Carnegie	....	digital compositor
Dan Cayer	....	compositing supervisor: Blue Sky Studios
Sheng-Fang Chen	....	lighting technical director
Borae Jungsuk Cho	....	pipeline td
Eldar Cholich	....	lighting lead
Tony Como	....	compositor
Tony Como	....	stereoscopic technical director
Alexander Costa	....	digital compositor
Dan Cregan	....	digital compositor
Brian P. Dean	....	senior technical director: lighting (as Brian Dean)
Dallas Alan Dietrich	....	character simulation technical director
Diana Diriwaechter	....	senior materials technical director
Rob Eckert	....	character simulation technical director
Mark Edwards	....	lead character technical director
Kevin Edzenga	....	character simulation technical director
Erin J. Elliott	....	crowds artist
Jud Estes	....	senior stereoscopic technical director
Mason Evans	....	character simulation technical director
Bill Eyler	....	compositor
Sean Falcon	....	digital compositor
Lorraine Harte Fitzgerald	....	assembly technical director
Alex Frenklakh	....	visual effects technical director
Anthony Fung	....	digital artist
Ilan Gabai	....	effects technical director
Tamara Garabedian	....	fur technical director
Mark Gelfuso	....	lighting technical director
Justin Gladis	....	senior compositor
Sean Goldman	....	stereo technical director
Claudio Gonzalez	....	digital compositor
Morgan C. Griffiths	....	digital compositor
Daniel Haffner	....	character simulation technical director
Kristina Hall	....	production assistant: compositing
Kristina Hall	....	production assistant: stereoscopic
Brian R. Handler	....	assembly technical director
Dan Haring	....	lighting and compositing technical director
Alex Hatfield	....	stereoscopic technical director
Sabine Heller	....	character technical director
Christopher M.K. Hill	....	character technical director
Thomas Hurlburt	....	lead camera technical director
Allan Kadkoy	....	character simulation technical director
Misha Koplan	....	character simulation technical director
David H. Lam	....	assembly technical director (as David Huynh Lam)
Brent Le Blanc	....	junior materials technical director
Justin Leach	....	rigging supervisor
Michael Levine	....	character simulation technical director
Ramón López Seco de Herrera	....	cg modeler
Rosalinda Malibiran	....	lighting lead
Raphael Matto	....	senior materials technical director
Josh McCollom	....	render technical director
David V. Mei	....	modeling supervisor
Christopher Mills	....	assembly technical director
Scott Minter	....	senior stereoscopic technical director
Rohini Montenegro	....	compositor
Christopher Moore	....	technical supervisor: production pipeline
Dinis 'Dennis' Morais	....	modeler
Michael Murdock	....	junior lighting technical director
Chris Nabholz	....	senior lighting technical director: Blue Sky
Daniel Naughton	....	lighting artist
Sophie Ohara	....	lighting coordinator
James Parente	....	character simulation technical director
Zoe Peck-Eyler	....	compositor
Florian Perret	....	modeler
Marin Petrov	....	character technical director
Elvira Pinkhas	....	effects supervisor
Stewart Pomeroy	....	stereoscopic technical director
Tracy Priest	....	additional rendering
David Raghavan	....	visual effects artist
Anthony Ragusa	....	lighting technical assistant
Rachel Richmond	....	materials production assistant
Aaron M. Ross	....	lead lighting technical director
Ari Rubenstein	....	lead compositor
Laura Sayan	....	lighting techical director
Katrin Schmid	....	pipeline td
Andrew Schneider	....	senior vfx technical director
John Siczewicz	....	compositing lead
Mohamed Sinbawy	....	junior lighting technical director
Wonchan Song	....	lighting technical director
Keith Stichweh	....	character simulation supervisor
John Youlen Sung	....	lighting technical assistant
Michael Tanzillo	....	lighting technical director
Radhika Thirunarayanan	....	materials technical director
Melissa Tierney	....	production assistant
Paul-Jozef Torrevillas	....	fur technical director
Christos Tzeremes	....	lighting technical director
Bryan Useo	....	pre-visualization supervisor
Bryan Useo	....	set supervisor
Michael J. Viera	....	compositor
Lauren Conway Weber	....	production coordinator
Chris 'Pinkus' Wesselman	....	digital compositor
Lori Williams	....	digital compositor
David Cole	....	digital colourist (uncredited)

Animation Department
Joseph Antonuccio	....	animator
Jonas Avrin	....	animation technical director
Audrey Bagley	....	materials technical director
Pako Bagur	....	animator
Dan Barker	....	character development supervisor
Wee Brian	....	animator
Tab Burton	....	animator
Robert Cardone	....	head of camera & staging
David Crispino	....	animator
Mike Cushny	....	camera technical director
Stephen Dahler	....	animator
Pete Devlin	....	animator
Thierry DiDonna	....	animator
Dallas Alan Dietrich	....	final camera & staging artist
Todd Elliott	....	animator
Nathan Engelhardt	....	animator
Scott Farrell	....	animator
Andrew Feliciano	....	animator
Edward Fornoles	....	animator
Richard A. Fournier	....	animator
Brianne Francisco	....	animation technical assistant
Gianluca Fratellini	....	animator
Jeff Gabor	....	lead animator
Patrick Giusiano	....	animator
Francis Glebas	....	storyboard
Bryan Graves	....	layout technical assistant
Tom Grevera	....	animator
Matthew Hasselmann	....	animator
Jason Ho	....	animator
Bill Hodman	....	layout artist
Heath A. Hollingshead	....	animation technical director
Ken Huling	....	animator
James Young Jackson	....	animator
Byoung Ho Kang	....	animator
Harald Kraut	....	layout artist
Jin Kum	....	animator
Ken Lee	....	senior camera
Ken Lee	....	staging artist
Alex Li	....	senior camera
Alex Li	....	staging artist
Venece Lyman	....	animator
Cristin McKee	....	animator
Tony Mecca	....	animator
Louaye Moulayess	....	animator
Mir Ural Noorata	....	junior animator
Teresa Nord Storhoff	....	animation technical assistant
Stephen Orsini	....	junior animator
Elena Ortego	....	animator
Emanuele Pavarotti	....	animator
Michael Petro	....	animation technical assistant
Amila Puhala	....	senior animator
Patrik Puhala	....	senior animator
Rachel Richmond	....	materials production assistant
Shanna Robalino	....	animation production assistant
Thom Roberts	....	animator
Raymond Ross	....	senior animator
Julen Santiago	....	animator
Pedro Sanz	....	animator
Valerie Scheiber	....	animator: Blue Sky Studios
Dan Segarra	....	animator
Christopher Silva	....	animator
Bruno Simões	....	camera & staging artist
David Sloss	....	senior animator
Wes Storhoff	....	junior animator
Miurika Valery	....	animator
Jörg Volk	....	animator
Amanda Wagner	....	animator
Justin Weg	....	animator
Lauren Wells	....	junior animator
Christopher D. Williams	....	animator
Drew Winey	....	animator
Glen Young	....	animation coordinator
Trevor Young	....	animator

Casting Department
Holly Dorff	....	adr voice casting
Jason Harris	....	adr voice casting

Editorial Department
William Battaglia	....	first assistant editor
Jason Fricchione	....	editorial manager
Avi Horn	....	post-production coordinator
Natasha Leonnet	....	digital intermediate colorist
Jennifer Margaret Nordmark	....	editorial production assistant
Zara Park	....	digital intermediate producer
Jim Passon	....	color timer
Carlos Rojas	....	assistant editor
Gerard Sam-Zee-Moi	....	chief engineer
Randy Trager	....	additional editing
Miriam Wallen	....	editorial coordinator
Justine Warwick	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Bill Abbott	....	music editor
Jeff Carson	....	temp music editor
George Doering	....	musician
Lisa Jaime	....	music editor
Melisa McGregor	....	score cordinator
Julie Minasian	....	score vocalist
Paul Mounsey	....	composer: additional music
Dennis S. Sands	....	music scoring mixer
Edgardo Simone	....	orchestrator
Gina Zimmitti	....	music contractor

Other crew
Tansal Arnas	....	scheduling manager
Josh Brock	....	production assistant
Nick Cogan	....	marketing creative director
Paige Day	....	recruiting assistant
Shelley Gorelik	....	assistant to director
Kristina Hall	....	scheduling coordinator
Shirley Doitch Horn	....	assistant to production executive
Alexis Jallad	....	production accountant
Matthew Jurczyk	....	systems administrator
Christopher Kappler	....	human resources
Vincent Liggio	....	senior infrastructure engineer
Adam Maid	....	production assistant
Muriel Moraes	....	production management intern
Eric Nelsen	....	adr loop group
Ante Novakovic	....	executive assistant: Colin Farrell
Paul Ohrt	....	production executive
Ignacio Plascencia	....	human resources
Mark Porter	....	production assistant
Kevin Posnanski	....	mastering coordinator: deluxe digital cinema
Tracy Priest	....	junior production engineer
Vandana Pulijaal	....	scheduling coordinator
Julia Reeves	....	marketing coordinator
Peter Pamela Rose	....	additional voices
David Schulenburg	....	marketing production supervisor

Production Companies

• Twentieth Century Fox Animation (presents)
• Blue Sky Studios

Distributors

• 20th Century Fox Netherlands (2013) (Netherlands) (theatrical) (through Warner Bros.)
• 20th Century Fox (2013) (Canada) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox (2013) (Germany) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox (2013) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox de Venezuela (2013) (Venezuela) (theatrical)
• Imperial - Cinepix (2013) (Poland) (theatrical)
• Manfer Films (2013) (Bolivia) (theatrical)
• Twentieth Century Fox C.I.S. (2013) (Azerbaijan) (theatrical)
• Twentieth Century Fox C.I.S. (2013) (Belarus) (theatrical)
• Twentieth Century Fox C.I.S. (2013) (Kazakhstan) (theatrical)
• Twentieth Century Fox C.I.S. (2013) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (2013) (USA) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2013) (USA) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2013) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (2013) (worldwide) (all media)

Other Companies

• Dolby Laboratories  sound mix
• EFilm  digital intermediate
• Intelligent Media  international monitoring agency
• Modern VideoFilm  post-production services (digital intermediate)
• Sony Classical  soundtrack

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MPAA:

Rated PG for mild action, some scary images and brief rude language

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby | Datasat | Dolby Atmos | Dolby Surround 7.1

Certification:

USA:PG | Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:U | Canada:G (British Columbia) | Ireland:G | Singapore:PG | India:U

Company:

Twentieth Century Fox Animation

Quotes:

[from trailer]
Nod:This guy's been crashing around the forest for years.
Mary Katherine:He's my dad!
Ronin:You're kidding.
[Nod laughs; Mary Katherine shoves him in frustration]
Ronin:You're not kidding.

Soundtrack:

In the End

Epic:Be enchanted!

Animation movies are all about the feel.Epic is a movie where the feel while watching the movie is brilliant.The level of detail that has gone into each frame in creating this world is mind boggling.The result is an aesthetically pleasing experience that deserves applause.The characters are all likable and well imagined.The snails are funny.I especially loved Mary Katherine,endearing and innocent.The 3-D is decent and the background score good.The overall experience is enjoyable.

Kids will love this one!If you are an adult,just let out the child in you and have fun :).