Blue Sky Studios
Blue Sky Studios was an American CGI-animation studio. It is owned by Pixar locating in Greenwich, Connecticut. In addition to their feature-length animated movies, Blue Sky has worked on many high-profile movies, primarily in combining live-action with computer-generated animation.
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Computer animation Motion pictures |
| Predecessor | MAGI Fox Animation Studios |
| Founded | February 22, 1987 |
| Founders |
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| Defunct | April 10, 2021 |
| Fate | Closed Shut down due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on The Walt Disney Company[1] |
| Successor | 20th Century Animation |
| Headquarters | Greenwich American Center , Greenwich, Connecticut U.S. |
Key people | |
| Products | Animated films |
| Parent | 20th Century Animation (Walt Disney Studios) |
| Website | blueskystudios.com at the Wayback Machine (archived June 9, 2021) (now redirects to disney |
Filmography
Feature movies
[4]Released movies
| # | Title | Release date | Budget | Gross | RT | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ice Age | March 15, 2002 | $59,000,000 | $383,257,136 | 77% | |
| 2 | Robots | March 11, 2005 | $75,000,000 | $260,718,330 | 64% | First Blue Sky in IMAX. |
| 3 | Ice Age: The Meltdown | March 31, 2006 | $80,000,000 | $655,388,158 | 57% | |
| 4 | Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! | March 14, 2008 | $85,000,000 | $297,138,014 | 79% | |
| 5 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | July 1, 2009 | $90,000,000 | $886,686,817 | 46% | First Blue Sky in 3D. |
| 6 | Rio | April 15, 2011 | $90,000,000 | $484,635,760 | 72% | Second Blue Sky in 3D. First Blue Sky’s Musical. |
| 7 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | July 13, 2012 | $95,000,000 | $828,736,444 | 38% | Third Blue Sky in 3D. |
| 8 | Epic | May 24, 2013 | $93,000,000 | $268,426,634 | 65% | Fourth Blue Sky in 3D. |
| 9 | Rio 2 | April 11, 2014 | $103,000,000 | $100,346,459 | 46% | Fifth Blue Sky in 3D. Latest Blue Sky’s Musical. |
| 10 | The Peanuts Movie | November 6, 2015 | $99,000,000 | $246,000,000 | 87% | Sixth Blue Sky in 3D. |
| 11 | Ice Age: Collision Course | July 22, 2016[5] | $105,000,000 | $408,000,000 | 18% | Seventh Blue Sky in 3D. Latest Blue Sky in IMAX. |
| 12 | Ferdinand[6] | December 15, 2017[7] | $111,000,000 | $296,000,000 | 72% | Eighth Blue Sky in 3D. |
| 13 | Spies in Disguise[8][9][10][11] | December 25, 2019 | $100,000,000 | $171,000,000 | 76% | Latest Blue Sky in 3D. |
Television specials and series
- Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2011)
- Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapede (2016)
- Ice Age: Scrat Tales (2022; TV Series)
Short movies
- Bunny (1998)
- Gone Nutty (2002)
- Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty (2005)
- No Time for Nuts (2006)
- Surviving Sid (2008)
- Scrat's Continental Crack-Up (2010)
- Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 (2011)
- Umbrellacorn (2013)
- Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe (2015)
- Scrat: Spaced Out (2016)
Associated Productions
| Title | Release date | Produced by | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild | January 28, 2022 | Walt Disney Pictures |
| 2 | Nimona | June 30, 2023 | Netflix |
Franchises
| Title | Years | Movies | Shorts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Age | 2002–2016 | 6 | 7 |
| Rio | 2011–2014 | 2 | 0 |
2019–2021: Disney acquisition and closure
Ownership of Blue Sky Studios was assumed by The Walt Disney Company as part of their 2019 acquisition of 21st Century Fox,[12] which concluded on March 20, 2019.[13] On March 21, Disney announced that Blue Sky Studios and its parent company 20th Century Fox Animation (now 20th Century Animation) would be integrated as units within the Walt Disney Studios with co-presidents Andrea Miloro and Robert Baird continuing to lead the studio, while reporting to Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn.[14] In July 2019, Miloro announced that she would be stepping down from her role as co-president, thus leaving Baird as sole president.[15]
In August 2019, former Walt Disney Animation Studios head Andrew Millstein was named as co-president of Blue Sky Studios alongside Baird, while Pixar Animation Studios president Jim Morris would also be taking a supervising role.[16][17]
On February 9, 2021, Disney announced that it was closing Blue Sky Studios in April 2021. The company explained that in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic's continued economic impact on all of its businesses, it was no longer sustainable for them to run a third feature animation studio. In addition, production on a film adaptation of the webcomic Nimona,[18] originally scheduled to be released on January 14, 2022, was cancelled as a result of its closure. The studio's film library and intellectual properties are retained by Disney.[19][20] Although Disney did not give an exact date as to when the studio would be closing down initially, former animator Rick Fournier confirmed on April 10 it was their last day of operation,[21] three days after co-founder Chris Wedge released a farewell letter on social media.[22]
Blue Sky Studios' website redirects to Disney.com.[a]
