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2005 American computer-animated comedy film

Chicken Picayune
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Directed by	Mark Dindal
Screenplay by	Steve Bencich Ron J. Friedman Ron Anderson
Story by	Marker Dindal Marking Kennedy
Based on	Chicken Little
Produced by	Randy Fullmer
Starring	Zach Braff Joan Cusack Dan Molina Steve Zahn Garry Marshall Amy Sedaris Mark Walton Don Knotts
Edited by	Dan Molina
Music by	John Debney
Production companies	Walt Disney Pictures[1] Walt Disney Feature Animation[two]
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Release dates	Oct xxx, 2005 (2005-x-xxx) (El Capitan Theatre) Nov four, 2005 (2005-11-04) (The states)
Running time	81 minutes[three]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$150 million[4]
Box office	$314.4 million[4]

Craven Petty is a 2005 American calculator-blithe scientific discipline fiction comedy film produced past Walt Disney Characteristic Animation, a loose remake of the 1943 propaganda cartoon of the same name, and very loosely based on the "Henny Penny" Anglo-Saxon fairy tale. The 46th Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Mark Dindal from a screenplay by Steve Bencich, Ron J. Friedman, and Ron Anderson, based on a story by Mark Kennedy and Dindal. In this version, the title graphic symbol is ridiculed past his town for causing a panic, thinking that the "sky was falling". A twelvemonth later he attempts to ready his reputation, followed by an unexpected truth regarding his past being revealed. The motion-picture show is dedicated to Disney artist and author Joe Grant, who died before the flick's release. This also marked the concluding pic appearance of Don Knotts during his lifetime, as his side by side and final film, Air Buddies (another Disney-produced motion-picture show that was released just over a year afterwards), would exist released posthumously.

Chicken Petty was animated in-business firm at Walt Disney Feature Animation's chief headquarters in Burbank, California and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 4, 2005, in Disney Digital 3-D (the get-go pic to be released in this format) along with the standard 2D version. It is Disney's first fully estimator-animated feature film, every bit Pixar'south films were distributed just not produced by Disney, and Dinosaur (2000) was a combination of live-activeness and calculator animation which in plough was provided past division The Hush-hush Lab.

Chicken Little was Disney's second adaptation of the legend subsequently a propaganda cartoon made during World War II.^[5] The film is also the last Disney blithe film produced nether the proper name Walt Disney Feature Blitheness earlier the studio was renamed Walt Disney Animation Studios.^[6] Craven Little received mixed to negative reviews from critics and grossed $314 million worldwide, making it the 2nd-highest-grossing blithe film of 2005 (behind Madagascar).^[7]

Plot [edit]

In the town of Oakey Oaks, Ace Cluck, also known as Chicken Little, rings the school bell and warns everyone to run for their lives. This sends the whole town into a frenzied panic. Eventually, the head of the Fire Section calms downward enough to enquire him what is going on. Chicken Lilliputian exclaims that the heaven is falling, considering a mysterious piece of the sky shaped like the nearby terminate sign had fallen on his caput when he was sitting under the big oak tree in the town square; however, he is unable to find the piece. His father, Buck Cluck, who was once a middle school baseball game star, assumes that this "piece of the sky" was simply an acorn that has fallen off the tree and has likewise striking him on the head, making Craven Piddling the laughingstock of the boondocks.

A year after, Chicken Little has go infamous in the town for being decumbent to ruin everything accidentally. His only friends are outcasts like himself: Abby "Ugly Duckling" Mallard, an obese and cowardly pig named Runt of the Litter, and Fish Out of Water, who wears a helmet full of tap water to breathe. Trying to help, Abby encourages Chicken Little to talk to his begetter, merely he only wants to make his dad proud of him. He joins his schoolhouse'southward baseball team to recover his reputation and his begetter's pride but is made final until the ninth inning of the last game. Craven Little is reluctantly called to bat by the coach. Craven Little hits the ball on his 3rd swing and makes it past offset, second, and third bases, but is met at home plate by the outfielders. He tries sliding onto the home plate but is touched by the ball. While it is presumed that he lost the game, the umpire brushes away the dust to reveal Chicken Little'southward foot is barely touching domicile plate, thus declaring Chicken Picayune safe and the game won; Chicken Niggling is hailed as a hero for winning the pennant.

Later that night back at dwelling, Chicken Piffling is hit on the head withal again by the same "slice of the sky" — only to find out that information technology is not really a piece of the sky, but a hexagonal console that blends into the background, which would thereby explain why he was unable to find it last fourth dimension. He calls his friends over to assistance figure out what it is.

When Fish pushes a push on the back of the console, it flies into the heaven, taking him with information technology. It turns out to be part of the cover-up of an invisible UFO piloted by two aliens in metal armor. Afterward "rescuing" Fish, Chicken Niggling and his friends are pursued by the aliens throughout a cornfield. Just equally they are cornered, Chicken Footling manages to ring the bong to warn everyone, merely the aliens escape, leaving an orange alien child behind. No one believes the story and Craven Niggling's reputation is placed in jeopardy yet again. The side by side morn, he and his friends discover the alien child, whose name is Kirby, just equally a whole fleet of alien spaceships descend on the town and showtime what appears to be an invasion. However, the invasion is a misunderstanding, as the two aliens are looking for their lost kid and attack only out of business concern. As the aliens rampage throughout Oakey Oaks, vaporizing everything in their path, Chicken Little realizes he must return Kirby to his parents to save the town. First, though, he must confront his begetter and regain his trust.

In the invasion, Cadet, at present regaining his pride and trust in his son, defends him from the aliens until they get vaporized. It is then discovered that the aliens were not vaporizing people just teleporting them aboard the UFO. Later Craven Piffling and his male parent render Kirby, it turns out the aliens were but touring Globe and came across the boondocks for its acorns. It is also revealed that the panel that savage off their ship is malfunctioning. After everything is explained, the apologetic aliens return everything to normal and everyone is grateful for Craven Piffling'due south efforts to salve the boondocks. Another yr later, Craven Trivial, his male parent, his friends and the citizens of Oakey Oaks lookout man an in-universe movie depicting an extremely fanciful retelling of the events that transpired, portraying Chicken Fiddling every bit an activity hero too named "Ace".

Cast [edit]

• Zach Braff as Ace "Chicken Little" Cluck, a young and atomic rooster, who suffers from a reputation for being called crazy when he caused a panic when he thought that the sky was falling.
• Joan Cusack equally Abigail "Abby" Mallard (as well known as the Ugly Duckling), a female duck (implied swan) with buckteeth. She is Craven Little's best friend, and by the end, his girlfriend.
• Dan Molina equally Fish Out of H2o, a goldfish who wears a scuba helmet filled with h2o and lives on the surface.
• Steve Zahn as Runt of the Litter, a big pig who is much larger than the other children simply is far smaller than the other members of his family.
• Garry Marshall as Buck "Ace" Cluck, Chicken Little'south widowed father and a erstwhile loftier school baseball game star.
  • Mark Mitchell would afterwards voice the character in the Australian release.
• Amy Sedaris as Foxy Loxy, a mean fox who is a baseball star and the "hometown hero." She is also a tomboy and one of the "pop kids" at schoolhouse. In the original fable, equally well as the 1943 short film, Foxy is a male trick.
• Mark Walton as Goosey Loosey, a dimwitted goose and Foxy Loxy'due south best friend and henchwoman.
• Don Knotts as Turkey Lurkey, a turkey and the mayor of Oakey Oaks, who is friendly and sensible but not very vivid.
• Sean Elmore, Matthew Josten, and Evan Dunn as Kirby
• Fred Willard as Melvin
• Catherine O'Hara as Tina
• Mark Dindal every bit Morkubine Porcupine and the Coach
• Patrick Stewart as Mr. Woolensworth
• Wallace Shawn as Primary Fetchit
• Patrick Warburton every bit Conflicting Cop
• Adam West as Ace - Hollywood Chicken Little
• Harry Shearer as the Dog Announcer

Production [edit]

Writing [edit]

In September 2001, director Mark Dindal adult the thought for Chicken Little, with its title graphic symbol envisioned as an overreacting, doom and gloom female person chicken that went to summer camp to build conviction so she would not overreact, also as repair her relationship with her father. At the summertime camp, she would uncover a nefarious plot that her camp counselor, who was to be voiced by Penn Jillette, was planning against her hometown.^[8] Dindal would after pitch his idea to Michael Eisner who suggested it would exist better to alter Craven Little into a male considering equally Dindal recalled, "if you're a boy and yous're short, you get picked on."^[9] However, Dindal after clarified that the decision was made, in part, due to marketplace research at the time stating, "I think being told, 'Girls volition go see a movie with a boy protagonist but boys won't run across a movie with a daughter protagonist,'... "That was the wisdom at the time, until Frozen comes out and makes $i billion."^[10]

In January 2003, when David Stainton became Disney'southward new president of Walt Disney Characteristic Animation, he decided the story needed a different approach. He told the director the script had to be revised, and during the side by side 3 months, it was rewritten into a tale of a boy trying to salvage his town from space aliens.^[11]

During the rewriting process, Dindal, along with 3 credited writers and nine others, threw out 20-five scenes to better the character development and add more emotional resonance with the parent-child relationship. Dindal admitted that "Information technology took united states of america virtually 2½ years to pretty much get back to where we started... But in the class of that, the story got stronger, more emotional, and Amazing, too."^{[11] [12]}

Casting [edit]

When originally envisioned as a female character, Holly Hunter provided the voice for the title graphic symbol for eight months, until it was decided for Chicken Little to exist a male.^[viii] Michael J. Fox, Matthew Broderick and David Spade were originally considered for the role.^[xiii] Against twoscore actors competing for the title role, Zach Braff auditioned where Dindal noted he "pitched his vox slightly to sound like a junior high kid. Right there, that was really unique — and then he had such smashing energy."^[fourteen]

In Apr 2002, Diversity reported that Sean Hayes was to vocalism a character named the Ugly Duckling,^[15] only the character was rewritten into a female.^[16] At present conceived as Abby Mallard, Hunter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jodie Foster, Geena Davis, and Madonna were considered, but Joan Cusack won the role for her natural comedy.^[17] In December 2003, information technology was announced Braff and Cusack were cast, along with other cast members including Steve Zahn, Amy Sedaris, Don Knotts, Katie Finneran, and Garry Marshall.^[18]

Marshall was asked to provide a voice for Kingdom of the Sun, which was re-conceived into The Emperor'south New Groove and directed by Dindal, but was removed from the project for being "as well New York".^[12] When he was approached to provide the voice for Buck Cluck, Marshall claimed "I said I don't do voices. You want a chicken that talks like me, fine. And then they hired me and they didn't fire me, and it was like a closure on blitheness."^[19]

Australian comedian Marker Mitchell was hired to re-voice the character of Buck Cluck for the Australian release of the film, as a determination by Disney to get a local personality to publicize the movie.^[20]

Animation [edit]

To visualize this story, Disney selected 50 percent of its 2nd animation staff to put them in a CGI animation team, and placed them through a rigorous eighteen-month training program with George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic, which included an introductory to Allonym'south Maya that would serve as the main 3D animation software used on the project. This was due to Disney CEO Michael Eisner announcing that the studio would move to computer animation in response to a downturn caused by ascent contest from Pixar and DreamWorks Animation estimator animated features, the unsatisfactory box role performances of The Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet (2002), and Domicile on the Range (2004). As some of the animators had worked on Dinosaur (2000), which used live-action backgrounds,^[21] the animation team took inspiration for its staging, coloring, and theatrical lighting from Mary Blair's background designs featured in Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953).

For the aesthetics in the background designs, the background layout artists sparingly apply digital matte paintings to render out the naturalistic elements, including the trees and the baseball diamond, just they were retouched using Adobe Photoshop every bit background cards featured in the moving-picture show.^[22] The lighting section would use the "Lumiere" software to raise virtual lighting for the shading form and depth and geometric rendering for the characters' shadows,^[23] likewise as utilise real lighting to create cucaloris.^[22]

For the characters' designs and animation style, Dindal sought to capture the "roundness" every bit seen in the Disney blithe works from the 1940s to 1950s,^[22] by which the characters' fluidity of move was inspired from the Goofy cartoon How to Play Baseball game (1942).^[22] Under visual effects supervisor Steve Goldberg who spearheaded the department, the Maya software included the software program "Shelf Control" that provided an outline of characters that can be viewed on-screen and provided a direct link to the controls for specific autonomy, likewise as new electronic tablet screens were produced that allowed for the artists to describe digital sketches of the characters to crude out their movements, which was then transferred to the 3D characters.^[23]

All of the characters were constructed using geometric polygons.^[22] For the championship graphic symbol, there were approximately 14 to fifteen graphic symbol designs earlier settling the design composed of an ovular egghead shape with oversized glasses. The final grapheme was synthetic of 5,600 polygons, 700 muscles, and more 76,000 private feathers, of which 55,000 are placed on his head.^[nineteen]

Post-obit the casting of Braff, supervising animator Jason Ryan adapted Braff's facial features during recording sessions to improve combine the dorkiness and adorability the filmmakers desired. "He's got this actually appealing face and eye expressions," Ryan said, adding that he was amazed by Braff'south natural vocal abilities.^[xiv] Next, the animators would utilize the software program "Chicken Wire," where digital wire deformers were provided for the animators to manipulate the basic geometric shapes to get their desired facial features. Lastly, a software development team constructed XGen, a calculator software program for training fur, feathers, and generating leaves.^[23]

Release [edit]

The film was originally scheduled for release on July one, 2005,^[24] but on December seven, 2004, its release date was pushed back to November iv, 2005, the release date that was originally slated for Disney/Pixar'south Cars.^{[25] [26]} The release engagement change was as well the twenty-four hours before DreamWorks Animation changed the release date of Shrek the Tertiary, from November 2006 to May 2007.^[27] Cars was later released on June ix, 2006.

At the time of the release of Craven Petty, the co-production deal between Disney and Pixar was set to expire with the release of Cars in 2006. The upshot of the contentious negotiations between Disney and Pixar was viewed to depend heavily on how Chicken Little performed at the box office. If successful, the moving picture would take given Disney leverage in its negotiations for a new contract to distribute Pixar'southward films. A failure would have allowed Pixar to argue that Disney could non produce CGI films.^[28]

On October thirty, 2005, the film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre, with the cast and filmmakers every bit attendees, which was followed with a ballroom bash at the Hollywood and Highland Center.^{[29] [30]} Along with its standard theatrical release, the motion picture was the showtime Disney in-firm release to exist rendered in Disney Digital 3D, that was produced by Industrial Calorie-free & Magic, and exhibited via Dolby Digital Cinema servers at approximately 100 selected theaters in twenty 5 meridian markets.^[31] To describe the process, Dindal remembers that information technology was a last infinitesimal decision, as it was suggested just 11 months before its release. For the 3D conversion, Dindal had a specific way he wanted the film to look: he wanted it to feel like a moving View-Master. As he puts information technology,

"When I was a child, and I was really taken with something, my kickoff thought was, Oh, I want to stride into that… They felt like a window that yous could footstep in. I remember showing those and saying, 'Tin can you make information technology look similar this? What is it about this that feels more 3D than most 3D films flick like that?'"^[10]

Marketing [edit]

The get-go trailer was released online in early 2004.^[32] It was besides attached to the DVD release of Brother Deport.^[33] Accompanied with the theatrical release, Disney Consumer Products released a serial of plush items, toys, activity sets, keepsakes, and wearing apparel.^[34]

Home media [edit]

Chicken Little was first released on DVD on March 21, 2006, in a single disc edition.^[35] The DVD contained the film accompanied with deleted scenes, three alternating openings, a 6 function making-of featurette, an interactive game, a karaoke sing along, two music videos, and blitheness test footage of the female Craven Fiddling.^{[36] [37]} The DVD sold over 2.7 million DVD units during its start calendar week accumulating $48 one thousand thousand in consumer spending. Overall, consumer spending on its initial home video release grossed $142.6 1000000.^[38] The moving-picture show was released for the first time on Blu-ray on March twenty, 2007, and independent new features not included on the DVD. A 3D Blu-ray version was released on November 8, 2011.^[39]

A VHS version was also released, simply only as a Disney Movie Club exclusive, presented in a rare fullscreen aspect ratio.

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

In its opening weekend, Chicken Little debuted at #1, being the first Disney animated moving picture to practise so since Dinosaur, taking $40 million and tying with The King of beasts Rex as the largest opener for a Disney blithe moving picture.^[40] It too managed to claim #1 again in its 2nd week of release, earning $31.7 one thousand thousand, chirapsia Sony's sci-fi family film, Zathura.^[41] The motion-picture show grossed $135.4 meg in N America, and $179 1000000 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $314.4 million.^[four]

This reversed the slump that the company had been facing since 2000, during which time it released several films that underperformed, virtually notably Fantasia 2000 (1999), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Treasure Planet (2002), and Abode on the Range (2004).

Critical response [edit]

Rotten Tomatoes, reports that 36% of 163 surveyed critics gave positive reviews; the boilerplate score is 5.four/10. The critical consensus states: "Disney expends more effort in the technical presentation than in crafting an original storyline."^[7] Metacritic, gave the flick an average score of 48 based on 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[42] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the motion-picture show an boilerplate grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.^[43]

James Berardinelli, writing his review for ReelViews, gave the moving picture two-and-a-half stars out of 4 stating that "Information technology is bogged downwardly by many of the problems that have plagued Disney's recent traditional animated features: anonymous vocalism work, poor plot structure, and the mistaken conventionalities that the Disney make will elevate anything to a "must-see" level for viewers starved for family unit-friendly fare."^[44] On the syndicated television program Ebert & Roeper, critics Richard Roeper and Roger Ebert gave the motion picture "Two Thumbs Down" with the former proverb "I don't care whether the film is 2-D, 3-D, CGI, or hand-drawn, it all goes back to the story."^[45]

In his print review featured in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert stated the problem was the story and wrote, "As a general rule, if a motion picture is non about baseball game or infinite aliens, and you lot have to use them, anyway, you should have started with a better premise." Ebert concluded his review with, "The movie did brand me smile. It didn't make me laugh, and it didn't involve my emotions, or the higher regions of my intellect, for that matter. It's a perfectly acceptable feature cartoon for kids up to a certain age, merely it doesn't take the universal appeal of some of the all-time recent animation."^[46]

Writing in The New York Times, picture show critic A.O. Scott stated the motion picture is "a hectic, uninspired pastiche of catchphrases and clichés, with very picayune wit, inspiration or originality to bring its frantically moving images to genuine life."^[47] Amusement Weekly film reviewer Lisa Schwarzbaum, who graded the pic a C, wrote that the "banality of the acorns dropped in this detail effort, another in a new breed of mass-market one-act that substitutes self-reference for original wit and pop songs for emotional content."^[48]

However, Ty Burr of The Boston Globe gave the film a positive review proverb the film was "shiny and peppy, with some solid laughs and bully vocal performances".^[49] Olly Richards of Empire Magazine gave the film a three out of five stars, maxim, "Beyond a cheeky, twisty bit of genre-tinkering, at that place'southward more than here for the under-tens than over-, only information technology''south still mannerly, amusing and energetic enough to win you over."^[l]

Angel Cohn of Television receiver Guide gave the motion-picture show 3 stars alluding the film that would "delight younger children with its bright colors and constant chaos, while adults are likely to be charmed by the witty banter, subtle one-liners, and a sweet begetter-son relationship."^[51] Peter Rainer, writing in The Christian Science Monitor, graded the pic with a A- applauding that the "visuals are irrepressibly witty and and so is the script, which morphs from the classic fable into a spoof on State of war of the Worlds. I adopt this version to Spielberg'due south."^[52]

Plugged In wrote, "A postscript for parents: A single "fault" defines Chicken Little, and he spends "the rest of his life" trying to live it down. As he puts information technology, "One moment destroyed my life." Later, another single moment—his habitation run—redefines him as a hero to his friends and his dad, who says, "I guess that puts the whole 'sky is falling' incident backside us once and for all." Insecure (and observant) young viewers may latch on to this kind of oversimplification and use information technology as license to magnify the significance of their own bumblings, whatever they might be."^[53] Common Sense Media gave the film a iii out of five stars, writing, "Cute, sometimes-frantic movie has peril, potential scares."^[54]

Dindal would express regret over the last version of the flick:

I think, Oh that [early] version ...Then I'm reconnected with what I'm thinking at the time. And you're thinking how that version would take turned out. If nosotros had stuck with that instead of this. If we had pushed Eisner and said, It has to be a girl,' it could have been killed... With this, I wish I could see an alternate reality, what that would accept been like.^[x]

Accolades [edit]

At the 2005 Stinkers Bad Moving picture Awards, this film won the award for Worst Blithe Picture. At the 33rd Annie Awards, it received four nominations for Best Animated Feature, Best Animated Effects, Best Character Design, and Best Production Design, losing all to Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. At the 2006 Kids' Selection Awards, it was nominated for Favorite Animated Film, but lost to Republic of madagascar.

Soundtrack [edit]

Craven Little
Soundtrack album past Various artists
Released	November ane, 2005
Genre	Pop pop stone R&B film score soft rock
Length	39:05
Label	Walt Disney
Producer	John Debney
Walt Disney Animation Studios chronology
Home on the Range (2004) Chicken Picayune (2005) Meet the Robinsons (2007)

The soundtrack album contains an original score composed and produced by John Debney, who had previously worked with Dindal on The Emperor'south New Groove (2000), with music by a wide range of artists, some musical veterans, such as Patti LaBelle and Diana Ross, besides as others.^[57] Uniquely for a Disney blithe motion picture, several of the songs are covers of archetype popular songs, such as Elton John's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," Carole King's "It'due south Likewise Tardily," and the Spice Girls' signature hit "Wannabe." However, the film does include one original song, "One Little Sideslip" by Barenaked Ladies. The soundtrack was released on November 1, 2005, by Walt Disney Records.^[57]

Track listing

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Stir It Up"	Joss Rock and Patti LaBelle	3:42
ii.	"One Little Sideslip"	Barenaked Ladies	ii:53
3.	"Shake a Tail Feather"	The Cheetah Girls	3:05
four.	"All I Know"	Five for Fighting	3:25
5.	"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"	Diana Ross	3:28
6.	"It's the Cease of the World equally We Know Information technology (And I Experience Fine)"	R.E.M.	4:04
vii.	"Nosotros Are the Champions"	Zach Braff	0:38
8.	"Wannabe"	Joan Cusack and Steve Zahn	0:fifty
9.	"Don't Go Breaking My Heart"	The Chicken Lilliputian Cast	1:53
x.	"The Sky is Falling" (score)	John Debney	2:49
11.	"The Big Game" (score)	John Debney	4:04
12.	"Dad Apologizes" (score)	John Debney	3:14
xiii.	"Hunt to Cornfield" (score)	John Debney	two:00
14.	"Dodgeball" (score)	John Debney	1:fifteen
fifteen.	"Driving with Dad" (score)	John Debney	1:45
Total length:			39:05

Video games [edit]

Craven Trivial spawned two video games. The first, Chicken Little, is an activeness-adventure video game released for Xbox on Oct 18, 2005, by Buena Vista Games. Two days later information technology was released for PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance (October 20, 2005), and afterwards Microsoft Windows (November 2, 2005). Craven Picayune for Game Boy Advance was adult past A2M, while BVG's recently acquired development studio, Avalanche Software, adult the game for the consoles.^[58]

The 2nd video game, Disney'due south Chicken Little: Ace in Action, is a multi-platform video game, for the Wii, Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows, and PlayStation 2 inspired by the "superhero picture show inside the movie" finale of the moving picture. Information technology features Ace, the superhero alter ego of Chicken Little, and the Hollywood versions of his misfit band of friends: Runt, Abby, and Fish-Out-of-Water.

Craven Fiddling himself appears as a summon in the video game Kingdom Hearts 2.^[59] His inclusion is somewhat noteworthy as Kingdom Hearts II debuted before the moving picture in Japan, with the grapheme'southward inclusion serving as a promotion for the and so-upcoming motion-picture show.

Cancelled sequel [edit]

Disneytoon Studios originally planned to brand a direct-to-video sequel to Chicken Little, tentatively titled Chicken Trivial 2: The Ugly Duckling Story.^[threescore] Directed by Klay Hall, the story would involve Chicken Little in the centre of a love triangle betwixt his childhood sweetheart, Abby Mallard, and a beautiful newcomer, Raffaela, a French sheep. Beingness at a nifty disadvantage, Abby would become to great lengths to give herself a makeover. Co-ordinate to Tod Carter, a story artist on the film, early screenings of the story reel were very well received, prompting Disney to think about increasing the budget to match the production quality with the quality of the story.^[61] Soon later 2006, when John Lasseter became Walt Disney Animation Studios' new primary creative officer, he called for all sequels and future sequels that Disneytoon had planned to be cancelled.^[60] According to Carter, this was a reaction to the sales figures for current projects and the overall market, calculation: "The executives didn't experience that the original film had a wide enough market place to describe upon to support the sequel."^[61]

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• Chicken Little production notes at The Walt Disney Visitor Nordic
• Chicken Little at IMDb
• Craven Little at the TCM Movie Database
• Chicken Little at The Big Cartoon DataBase
• Chicken Little at AllMovie
• Chicken Footling at Box Role Mojo

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