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Around the World in 80 Days
Around the World in 80 Days
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Directed by	Samuel Tourneux
Screenplay by	Gerry Swallow; David Michel
Based on	Around the World in Eighty Days; 1873 novel; by Jules Verne
Produced by	Zoé Carrera Allaix; Cécile Lauritano; David Michel
Edited by	Benjamin Massoubre
Music by	Norbert Gilbert
Production; company	Cottonwood Media
Distributed by	StudioCanal
Release date	4 August 2021;
Running time	82 minutes
Countries	France; Belgium
Language	French
Budget	$20 million
Box office	$3.987 million

Around the World in 80 Days (French: Le Tour du monde en 80 jours)^[2] is a 2021 French-language animated adventure comedy film based on Jules Verne's 1873 novel of the same name. Directed by Samuel Tourneux (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Gerry Swallow and David Michel (who also acted as an executive producer), the film was produced by Cottonwood Media and distributed by StudioCanal.^[6]^[7] Around the World in 80 Days was released in France on 4 August 2021, and had a worldwide gross of $3.987 million. Grossing €3.7 million ($4,375,990) from 762,917 admissions, it was the highest-grossing French-language film in foreign markets of 2021.^[8]

Premise

Passepartout, a naive but well-spirited marmoset, dreams of circumnavigating the world in eighty days, however his over-protective mother does not allow him to go on the journey. One day, Passepartout gets the opportunity to travel the world with Phileas Frog, an explorer and con artist, after Frog makes a wager with the locals that he can circumnavigate the globe in under eighty days.^[9]

Voice cast

The original French voice cast is as follows:^[3]

Damien Frette as Phileas Frog
Julien Crampon as Jean Passepartout
Kaycie Chase as Aouda
Céline Ronte as Fix
Véronique Augereau as Passepartout's mother
Emmanuel Garijo as Herman
Gabriel Le Doze as Juan Frog de Leon
Serge Biavan as scorpion leader
Mickaël Aragones as a scorpion
Grégory Quidel as scorpion beta

English dub

Rob Tinkler as Phileas Frog
Cory Doran as Jean Passepartout. Raphael Alejandro voices him in the American dub.
Katie Griffin as Aouda. Madi Monroe voices her in the American dub.
Heather Bambrick as Fix. Aida Rodriguez voices her in the American dub.
Shoshana Sperling as Passepartout's mother. Gwen La Roka voices her in the American dub.
Brandon McGibbon as Herman
Juan Chioran as Juan Frog de Leon
Jamie Watson as scorpion leader
Deven Mack as a scorpion

Production

Director Samuel Tourneux and producers David Michel and Zoé Carrera Allaix first began discussing the project in 2016.^[8] The film was screened to distributors at Cannes Film Festival in May 2019 under the working title Around the World. Tourneux explained at Cannes that, while a 3D-CGI film, he wanted to combine it with 2D visual effects, such as water and smoke, to give it a distinctive style from other animated films. Tourneux also noted that he wanted to combine steampunk elements with an animal world built by animals, and as such the animals in the film have managed to build machines out of materials such as wood, leaves, shells, rocks and sand.^[6]

Over 17,000 drawings were made for the storyboard, of which 9,300 were used in the final version.^[10]

Release

Around the World in 80 Days was released in France on 4 August 2021, and in the United Kingdom on 20 August.^[2]

Box office

During its entire theatrical run, Around the World in 80 Days had a worldwide gross of $3,987,613 (excluding Africa), including $164,477 in the United Kingdom.^[11] It grossed €3.7 million ($4,375,990) from 762,917 admissions in 2021 from approximately forty countries, making it the highest-grossing French-language film in foreign markets of the year.^[8] During the film's first month, it grossed €446,273 ($527,807.08) from 53,740 admissions in three countries.^[12] In September, Around the World in 80 Days grossed an additional €1,552,714 ($1,836,394.85) from 411,151 admissions in ten countries;^[13] €738,315 ($873,205.15) from 118,523 admissions in October;^[14] €148,607 ($175,757.5) from 15,045 admissions in eight countries in November, and;^[15] €387,005 ($457,710.81) from 83,061 admissions in seven countries in December.^[16]

Critical reception

Olivier Bachelard, writing for Abus de Ciné, gave the film three out of five stars, praising the animation style and 2D elements, but criticised the animal adaptations of human society (as such using clams as currency) as uninventive.^[17] Leslie Felperin of The Guardian also gave the film three out of five stars, calling it "modest" and adding "it's hard to hate on this gentle, goofy interpretation, populated by simply designed animal characters with exaggerated features."^[18]

Awards

Award	Date	Category	Nominee	Result	Ref
Lumières Award	17 January 2022	Best Animated Film	Samuel Tourneux	Nominated	^[19]
Trophées du Film français	1 February 2022	UniFrance Trophy	Around the World in 80 Days	Won	^[8]

References

^ "Around the World in 80 Days". UniFrance. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Around the World in 80 Days (Le Tour du monde en 80 jours)". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b Olivier 2021, p. 18.
^ "Around The World In 80 Days". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022. Approx. running minutes 82m
^ Wiseman, Andreas (13 May 2019). "StudioCanal Launches $20M Animated Film & Pierre Niney-Marine Vacth Thriller 'Black Box' — Cannes". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b Hopewell, John; Lang, Jamie (15 May 2019). "Studiocanal, Cottonwood's 'Around the World': Offers from 'All Over the World' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ Milligan, Mercedes (13 May 2019). "StudioCanal Shops New Animated Feature 'Around the World' in Cannes". Animation Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "11th Unifrance Trophy goes to the film 'Around the World in 80 Days'". UniFrance. 2 February 2022. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ Olivier 2021, p. 3.
^ Olivier 2021, p. 16.
^ "Around the World in 80 Days". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ "French films at the international box office: August 2021". UniFrance. 28 September 2021. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ "French films at the international box office: September 2021". UniFrance. 22 October 2021. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ "French films at the international box office: October 2021". UniFrance. 29 November 2021. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ "French films at the international box office: November 2021". UniFrance. 15 December 2021. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ "French films at the international box office: December 2021". UniFrance. 21 January 2022. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ Bachelard, Olivier (19 June 2021). "Critique du film: Le Tour du monde en 80 jours" [Film review: Around the World in 80 Days]. Abus de Ciné (in French). Archived from the original on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ Felperin, Leslie (19 August 2021). "Around the World in 80 Days review – a charmingly goofy take on Jules Verne". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ Goodfellow, Melanie (18 January 2022). "'Happening', 'Annette', 'The Worst Person In The World' triumph at Lumières". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.

Citations

Olivier, Delphine (2021). "Le Tour du monde en 80 jours dossier de presse francais" [Around the World in 80 Days French press release] (PDF). medias.unifrance.org (in French). UniFrance. Retrieved 3 May 2022.