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Monster House (film)

A 2006 animated film about a haunted house on Halloween.

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The plot follows a neighborhood terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween.[1] The film was produced by Relativity Media and executive produced by Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment.[2] The 2006 American animated supernatural comedy horror film Monster House was Gil Kenan's first feature film as a director.[3][1]

Making and release

After impressing Robert Zemeckis, Kenan then pitched the film to Steven Spielberg using sketches and drawings he had prepared.[4][5] The human characters were animated using motion-capture animation, a process previously used in Zemeckis' The Polar Express.[2][6] The film opened theatrically on July 21, 2006, grossing $22.2 million in its opening weekend and ranking number two at the North American box office.[7] DreamWorks Animation SKG originally developed the project after Gil Kenan, a recent film school graduate, pitched it.[8]

After receiving the screenplay by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab for ImageMovers, Kenan presented his ideas to Bennett Schneir, the head of story.[4] In 2004, DreamWorks put the film into turnaround; Sony Pictures Entertainment then acquired it and started production on August 23, 2004.[4] Having read Pettler's script for Corpse Bride, Kenan brought her in to rewrite the screenplay and create the characters Constance and Horace Nebbercracker.[9][5]

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Kenan assembled a small team of storyboard artists led by Simeon Wilkins to put the entire film up on rudimentary boards with scratch voice acting and temp score.[5] Monster House was the first animated feature film to use the Arnold rendering software and the first feature film entirely rendered with unbiased, brute-force path tracing.[10] A stereoscopic 3D version of the film was created and released in approximately 200 theaters equipped for REAL D Cinema digital 3D projection.[11] Ed Verreaux, the production designer, created the neighborhood to look like settings from 1980s films such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[9]

On July 18, 2006, THQ released a video game adaptation for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS.[12][13]

References

  1. "Monster House (2006) - Gil Kenan | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie". facts only, no text reused. allmovie.com
  2. Wikipedia, "Monster House (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: McCarthy, "Review: 'Monster House'", Variety, July 4, 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Monster House (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Monster House (2006) - Gil Kenan | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Monster House (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Awalt, "Into the 'Monster House'", Amblin Entertainment, September 27, 2021; Ball, "Sony Moves into DreamWorks' Monster House", Animation Magazine, July 20, 2004 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Awalt, "Into the 'Monster House'", Amblin Entertainment, September 27, 2021. facts only, no text reused. amblin.com
  6. Wikipedia, "Monster House (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Animation of Monster House", Lost in the Plot; Awalt, "Into the 'Monster House'", Amblin Entertainment, September 27, 2021 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Monster House (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Monster House", Box Office Mojo (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Monster House (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ball, "Sony Moves into DreamWorks' Monster House", Animation Magazine, July 20, 2004 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Monster House (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Awalt, "Into the 'Monster House'", Amblin Entertainment, September 27, 2021 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Monster House (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "about", www.arnoldrenderer.com; Haines, "Marcos and Arnold", Ray Tracing News, July 20, 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Monster House (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: For more info on the 3D technology used for Sony ImageWorks Monster House, visit: www.reald.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  12. Wikipedia, "Monster House (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fox, "The Video Games Guide: 1,000+ Arcade, Console and Computer Games, 1962-2012", McFarland Publishing, January 3, 2013, p. 192 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  13. Open Library record, ISBN 9780786472574 ("The Video Games Guide: Second Edition"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Monster House (film) (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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