Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure
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| Directed by | Kari Juusonen Jorgen Lerdam |
| Produced by | Hannu Tuomainen Petteri Pasanen Antti Haikala Emely Christians Moe Honan Ralph Christians Bernhard zu Castell |
| Written by | Marteinn Thorisson Hannu Tuomainen |
| Starring | Erik Carlson Juhana Vaittinen Mikko Kivinen Vuokko Hovatta Aarre Karen |
| Music by | Stephen McKeon |
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| Distributed by | Global Screen BAC Films Nordisk Film Universum Film Lionsgate Home Entertainment |
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9 August 2013 (Japan) |
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79 minutes |
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Finland Denmark Germany Ireland |
Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure (also known as Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble, or simply Niko 2), is a Finnish-Danish-Irish computer animated comedy/adventure film, produced by Finnish Anima Vitae and Cinemaker OY with co-producers Ulysses (Germany), A. Film (Denmark), Tidal Films (Ireland). The animation was produced in Finland, Germany and Denmark, with post-production carried out in Ireland. It is the sequel to The Flight Before Christmas and is written Hannu Tuomainen, and Marteinn Thorisson and directed by Kari Juusonen and Jørgen Lerdam. It was released in Finland in October 12, 2012. The estimated production budget was €7,350,000. Anima Vitae and Cinemaker OY were nominated for Cartoon Movie Tributes 2013 in the category “European Producer of the Year”.
The sequel takes places a couple of months after the events of the first film, and follows the story of Niko, who must deal with his mother Oona getting remarried and thus, he gains a stepbrother named Jonni, whom Niko hates at first. However, when Jonni gets kidnapped by eagles, Niko flies off to rescue him. During his journey in saving his little stepbrother, Niko is joined by an old, near-blind reindeer named Tobias, who is revealed to be the former leader of Santa's Flying Forces. However, standing in Niko's way is also White Wolf, Black Wolf's younger sister, who is the leader of the eagles and wants revenge on Niko for her brother's death. Now, Niko and the rest of the team must come up with a plan to save Jonni, defeat White Wolf and return home.
Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure was shown at the Hamburg Film Festival on 29 September 2012.
It was released in Finland on October 12, 2012. The film opened in 115 theatres and was seen by 150,889 viewers, grossing €1,384,148.
It was released in Japan on August 9, 2013 after being shown at the Kinder Film Festival.
It entered into limited European distribution in November and December 2013 in Germany, Denmark, Poland, France, Iceland, Netherlands, Russia, Belgium, Estonia, and in Asia in Korea, Israel in March 2013.
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