Ice Age: Continental Drift

Ice Age: Continental Drift
Directed by	Steve Martino Michael Thurmeier
Screenplay by	Michael Berg Jason Fuchs
Story by	Michael Berg Lori Forte
Produced by	Lori Forte John C. Donkin
Starring	Ray Romano John Leguizamo Denis Leary Wanda Sykes Peter Dinklage Jennifer Lopez Queen Latifah Keke Palmer Josh Gad
Cinematography	Renato Falcão
Edited by	James Palumbo David Ian Salter
Music by	John Powell
Production companies	Blue Sky Studios 20th Century Fox Animation
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	June 27, 2012 (2012-06-27) (Europe) July 13, 2012 (2012-07-13) (North America) November 28, 2012 (2012-11-28) (Egypt) November 22, 2013 (2013-11-22) (Togo)
Running time	88 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$95 million[2][1]
Box office	$877.2 million[1]

Ice Age: Continental Drift (also called Ice Age 4: Continental Drift or simply known as Ice Age 4) is 2012 American 3D computer animated adventure comedy movie. It was directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier. It was written by Jason Fuchs and Michael Berg. It stars the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Jennifer Lopez, Keke Palmer, Peter Dinklage, Wanda Sykes, Drake and Nicki Minaj.

It is the fourth Ice Age series. It was produced by Blue Sky Studios. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is also the first sequel of Ice Age not to be directed by Carlos Saldanha. It was the second Ice Age movie that is in Digital 3D. It was released in the United States on July 13, 2012. This was the first Ice Age movie to be shot in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio.

The movie was welcomed well from audience: they praised its story, the cast's performance, the villain, its new characters, the humor, the emotional weight and the animation, but was criticized for the siren scenes and for having Scrat as the cause of the events of the movie. The movie became a box office hit. It is currently the 6th highest-grossing animated movie in history. It is the 3rd highest-grossing movie of 2012 with a worldwide gross of over USD$800 million. Ice Age: Continental Drift was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D on December 4, 2012.^[3]

Cast

Ray Romano as Manny[4] John Leguizamo as Sid[4] Denis Leary as Diego[4] Queen Latifah as Ellie[4] Seann William Scott as Crash[4] Josh Peck as Eddie[4] Chris Wedge as Scrat[5] Karen Disher as Scratte Siren[6] Keke Palmer as Peaches, Manny and Ellie's teenage daughter[4] Jennifer Lopez as Shira, a saber-toothed cat (Smilodon) and Diego's love interest.[4] Peter Dinklage as Captain Gutt,[4] a prehistoric ape (Gigantopithecus) and the main antagonist[7] Wanda Sykes as Granny, Sid's 80-year-old grandmother[4][8] Josh Gad as Louis, a molehog and Peaches' best friend, who has a crush on her[5] Drake as Ethan, a woolly mammoth Peaches has a crush on[4] Aziz Ansari as Squint, a prehistoric rabbit (Palaeolagus) and part of Gutt's crew[8][9] Nicki Minaj as Steffie, a woolly mammoth[10]

Ester Dean as Sloth Siren[11] Rebel Wilson as Raz, an Australian prehistoric kangaroo (Procoptodon) that is part of Gutt's crew[8][12] Joy Behar as Eunice, Sid's mother[5][13] Nick Frost as Flynn, a 4000 pound English elephant seal that is part of Gutt's crew[5][8] Heather Morris as Katie, a woolly mammoth[5][14] Ally Romano as Meghan, a woolly mammoth Alan Tudyk as Milton, Sid's father / Fabio sloth[5] Kunal Nayyar as Gupta, a Bengali Badger (Chamitataxus) and part of Gutt's crew and used as the ship's impearl flag[9] Alain Chabat as Silas, a Blue-footed Booby from the south of France that is part of Gutt's crew[5][8] Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo as Fungus, Sid's uncle Ben Gleib as Marshall, Sid's brother[15] Jason Fricchione as Dumb mammoth / Various / Crab / Announcer Patrick Stewart as Ariscratle, a sabre-thoth squirrel who is the leader of Scratlantis Simon Pegg as Buck (cameo) Christopher Campbell as Creature siren / Various George Jacobs as Beaver

Production

News of another Ice Age sequel were announced on January 10, 2010. The New York Times reported that Blue Sky was working on a fourth movie. They were also developing plans on who would be voice acting in the movie.^[16] Fox later confirmed this on May 5, 2010. They released the title as Ice Age: Continental Drift. They said that it will be released on July 13, 2012.^[17]

Casting

On February 2010 are reprising their roles Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary.

On June 17, 2010 are reprising their roles Sean William Scott and Josh Peck

Premieres

Country	Release Date
United States  Canada	July 13, 2012 March 6, 2015 (re-release)
Togo	November 22, 2013

Staff

• Director by: Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier
• Story by: Jason Carter Eaton
• Storyboard artist: Karen Disher
• Character Design: Peter de Sève
• Music by: John Powell

Soundtrack

Ice Age: Continental Drift
Film score by John Powell
Released	July 10, 2012
Recorded	2012
Genre	Score
Length	57:57
Label	Varèse Sarabande
John Powell film scores chronology
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012) Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) Rio 2 (2014)

Ice Age: Continental Drift is the soundtrack of the movie scored by John Powell and was released on July 10, 2012.^[18]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Morning Peaches"	2:22
2.	"Schism"	2:28
3.	"Storm"	3:50
4.	"No Exit Gutt"	5:37
5.	"Escape from Captivity"	3:02
6.	"New Loves"	4:50
7.	"Hydraxes / Prison Talk"	2:57
8.	"Diversion"	3:57
9.	"Pirating the Pirates"	4:37
10.	"Teen Cave"	4:42
11.	"Sirens"	2:35
12.	"Land Bridge Trap"	8:22
13.	"Herd Reunion"	3:08
14.	"Scrat's Fantasia"	5:30
Total length:		57:57

Video games

Ice Age Village is a mobile video game. It was developed by Gameloft, and was released on April 5, 2012 to iPhone, iPad, and various Android devices.^[19][20]

Ice Age: Continental Drift – Arctic Games, a video game based on the movie, was published by Activision Publishing. It was developed by Behaviour Interactive and was released on July 10, 2012,^[21] on the Wii, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, and Kinect for the Xbox 360.^[22]

Sequel

A sequel, titled Ice Age: Collision Course, was released on July 22, 2016.

References

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22. "Activision Publishing And Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products Announce All New Ice Age Video Game". PR Newswire. April 25, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2012.

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