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Directed by | Carlos Saldanha |
Produced by | Bruce Anderson John C. Donkin |
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Don Rhymer Joshua Sternin Jeffrey Ventimilia Sam Harper |
Story by | Carlos Saldanha Earl Richey Jones Todd Jones |
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Music by | John Powell |
Cinematography | Renato Falcão |
Edited by | Harry Hitner |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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96 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English Portuguese |
Budget | $90 million |
Box office | $484.6 million |
Rio: Music from the Motion Picture | ||||
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Soundtrack album by John Powell | ||||
Released | March 29, 2011 April 5, 2011 (Audio CD) |
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Genre | Pop, Latin, alternative hip hop | |||
Length | 38:11 | |||
Label | Interscope, will.i.am Music Group | |||
Producer | Sérgio Mendes, John Powell | |||
Blue Sky Studios film soundtrack chronology | ||||
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Singles from Rio: Music from the Motion Picture | ||||
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Rio | ||||
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Film score by John Powell | ||||
Released | April 19, 2011 | |||
Genre | Score | |||
Length | 47:04 | |||
Label | Varèse Sarabande | |||
John Powell film scores chronology | ||||
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Rio is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated musical adventure-comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, where the film is set. The film features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, George Lopez, and Jamie Foxx. It tells the story of Blu (Eisenberg), a male Spix's macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a free-spirited female Spix's macaw, Jewel (Hathaway). The two eventually fall in love, and together they have to escape from being smuggled by Nigel (Clement), a cockatoo. The theme song, "Telling the World" was performed by Taio Cruz.
Saldanha developed his first story concept of Rio in 1995, in which a penguin is washed up in Rio. Saldanha learned of the production of the films Happy Feet (2006) and Surf's Up (2007), and changed the concept to involve macaws and their environments in Rio. He proposed his idea to Chris Wedge in 2006, and the project was set up at Blue Sky. The main voice actors were approached in 2009. During production, the crew visited Rio de Janeiro and also consulted with an expert on macaws at the Bronx Zoo to study their movements.
Rio premiered on March 22, 2011, in Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, and had its general release on April 15, 2011, in North America. The film received generally positive reviews from film critics. Observers praised the visuals, voice acting, and music. The film was also a box office success, grossing over $143 million in the United States and $484 million worldwide. The film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Real in Rio", but lost to the other nominee, "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets. A sequel, Rio 2, was released on April 11, 2014.