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Directed by | Tim Burton |
Screenplay by | Ehren Kruger |
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Cinematography | Ben Davis |
Edited by | Chris Lebenzon |
Music by | Danny Elfman |
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Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
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Running time | 112 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $170 million[3][4][5] |
Box office | $353.3 million[6] |
Dumbo is a 2019 American fantasy period adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger. It is a live-action adaptation of Walt Disney's 1941 animated film Dumbo, which is based on the novel by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl. Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green and Alan Arkin star in a story about a family that works at a failing traveling circus encounter a baby elephant with extremely large ears who is capable of flying.
Plans for a live-action film adaptation of Dumbo were announced in 2014, and Burton was confirmed as director in March 2015. Most of the cast signed on for the feature in March 2017 and principal photography lasted from July to November 2017 in England. It was the first of five live-action adaptations of prior animated Disney films released in 2019, along with Aladdin, The Lion King, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, and Lady and the Tramp.
Dumbo premiered in Los Angeles on March 11, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on March 29, 2019. The film grossed $353 million worldwide against a $170 million budget and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances of DeVito and Keaton but criticized the script. Burton later confirmed that he would no longer work with Disney, referring to the studio as a "horrible big circus".[7]
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