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Directed by | Rob Minkoff |
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Screenplay by | Craig Wright |
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Peabody's Improbable History by Ted Key |
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Music by | Danny Elfman |
Edited by | Michael Andrews |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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92 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $145 million |
Box office | $275.7 million |
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Soundtrack album by Danny Elfman | ||||
Released | March 3, 2014 | |||
Recorded | 2014 | |||
Genre | Film score | |||
Length | 50:10 | |||
Label | Relativity Music Group | |||
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated comic science fiction comedy film featuring the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman of the 1960s animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The film was produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Rob Minkoff, who is best known for co-directing Disney's The Lion King (1994). Alex Schwartz and Denise Nolan Cascino were the producers. Tiffany Ward, daughter of Jay Ward, one of the creators of the original series, was the executive producer.Mr. Peabody & Sherman features the voices of Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Ariel Winter, Stephen Colbert, Leslie Mann, and Allison Janney.
It is the first DreamWorks animated feature to feature characters from the Classic Media library since DreamWorks Animation's 2012 acquisition of Classic Media and the first to be based on a TV show. The film premiered on February 7, 2014 in the United Kingdom, and was released on March 7, 2014 in the United States. Despite grossing a worldwide total of $275 million on its $145 million budget, the film underperformed at the box office, forcing a writedown of $57 million. A TV series based on the film, titled The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show, premiered on Netflix on October 9, 2015.