Ice Age (franchise)

Ice Age
Created byMichael J. Wilson[1]
Original workIce Age (2002)
Owner20th Century Studios
Years2002–present
Films and television
Film(s)
Short film(s)
Animated seriesScrat Tales (2022)
Television special(s)
Theatrical presentations
Play(s)Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure
Games
Video game(s)
Audio
Soundtrack(s)

Ice Age is an American media franchise created by Michael J. Wilson,[1] centering on a group of mammals surviving the Pleistocene ice age. It consists of computer-animated films, short films, TV specials and a series of video games. The first five films were produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by its then parent company 20th Century Fox (now known as 20th Century Studios). The series features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge across all films, with Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Simon Pegg, Wanda Sykes, Keke Palmer, and Jennifer Lopez joining the main cast in subsequent films. The films center mainly on the adventures "the Herd," which since the first film consists of at least woolly mammoth Manny (Romano), ground sloth Sid (Leguizamo), and Smilodon Diego (Leary). The franchise also features mostly independent plotlines involving a dialogue-free saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat (Wedge), who ends up in misadventures from trying to retrieve and bury his acorns.

Five theatrical films have been released in the series: Ice Age in 2002, Ice Age: The Meltdown in 2006, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012, and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016. As of April 2016, the franchise had generated $6 billion in revenue,[2] making it one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

A standalone spin-off film, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, was produced by Walt Disney Pictures without the involvement of Blue Sky and released exclusively on Disney+ in January 2022; Simon Pegg was the only returning actor. A sixth film, Ice Age 6, is in production for release on December 18, 2026, with most of the main cast reprising their roles from previous installments and without Blue Sky’s involvement, instead with 20th Century Animation’s control.

  1. ^ a b "Ice Age : Production Notes". www.cinema.com. Archived from the original on April 14, 2021. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  2. ^ Wilonsky, Robert; Engel, Clint (April 25, 2016). "Clint Engel Ashley iKidz retailers get promotion for latest 'Ice Age' movie". Furniture Today. Sandow Media. Archived from the original on August 8, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2017.

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