Foodfight!
Studio: Threshold Entertainment Release Date : 2012

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Synopsis

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Credits

Director

Lawrence Kasanoff

Voices

Charlie Sheen
Wayne Brady
Hilary Duff
Christopher Lloyd
Chris Kattan
Jerry Stiller
Eva Jacqueline Longoria Bastón


Trivia

  • Director/co-writer/producer Lawrence Kasanoff and Threshold Entertainment employee Joshua Wexler created the concept for the film in 1997 with a $25 million joint investment made by Threshold and Natural Image, a Korean investment company. The producers expected that foreign pre-sales and loans against the sales would provide the remaining portion of the budget and the estimated remainder for it was $50 million.
  • The film was originally scheduled for a Christmas 2003 theatrical release but failed to materialize. Poisslby due to the fact that in December 2002, hard drives containing most unfinished assets of the film were stolen. Lawrence Kasanoff, who reported the news, called an act of "industrial espionage" and "an incredibly complex crime". An investigation went out which included the United States Secret Service, but was left unsuccessful. In 2013, a Reddit user, who claims to have worked on the film, stated that the hard drives were not stolen, but rather deleted intentionally by Kasanoff himself. Production would resumed in 2004 and Kasanoff changed the style from computer-animated with an exaggerated use of "squash and stretch" to more of a motion capture category. This left many characters with extremely limited facial expressions and barely emoting eyes. Even with the movie keeping "squash and stretch" for certain characters, it too produced lackluster results due to the limitations of the animation software.
  • Because he had no prior experience in the animation field, Lawrence Kasanoff didn't seem to realize the difference between live-action and animation and that "he and animators were speaking two different languages". He'd often ask his crew to do "retakes" of scenes and also ask the animators to make things "more awesome" or "thirty percent better". Although he was eventually fired, it's been said that the studio lost millions of dollars due to his inability to streamline production.
  • In 2005, Lionsgate was interested in the film and established a distribution deal with Treshold and the financing company StoryArk who gave $20 million in funding due to the Lionsgate deal, the celebrity voice actors, and the product tie-ins with a release date set for Fall 2005. When the deadline was missed due to production delays, another distribution deal was struck in 2007, but was missed again for the same reason. Lionsgate had negative reaction to the delays and the investors were growning impatient due to the film's production company defaulting on its secured promissory note and not meeting the release dates. By September 2011, after the producers defaulted on a loan, creditors auctioned off the film's assets and all associated rights to Lionsgate. The film was auctioned for $2.5 million and StoryArk investors had ultimately invoked a clause in their contract that allowed the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, which had insured Foodfight!, to complete and release the film as inexpensively and quickly as possible. Said company received the copyright in 2012 and began releasing the film starting with a limited release in the United Kingdom and a VOD release in February 2013 in America followed by a DVD release on May 7, 2013.

DVD

United States

Foodfight!

Technical Specifications

MPAA No.: 44563
MPAA Rating: PG
Animation Type: Computer Animation (CGI)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Negative Type: Digital
Original Country: United States
Original Language: English
Sound Type: Dolby

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