July 23, 2017 (2017-07-23) (Regency Village Theatre)
July 28, 2017 (2017-07-28) (United States)
Running time
86 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$50 million[2]
Box office
$217.8 million[3]
The Emoji Movie is a 2017 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film was directed by Tony Leondis from a screenplay he co-wrote with Eric Siegel and Mike White, based on a story by Leondis and Siegel. It stars the voices of T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Jake T. Austin, Christina Aguilera, Sofía Vergara, Sean Hayes, and Sir Patrick Stewart. Based on emojis, the film centers on a multi-expressional emoji Gene (Miller), who exists in a digital city called Textopolis, for a smartphone owned by Alex (Austin), embarking on a journey to become a normal emoji capable of only a single expression, accompanied by his friends, Hi-5 (Corden) and Jailbreak (Faris). During their travels through the other apps, the trio must save their world from total destruction before it is reset for functionality.
Inspired by Leondis' love of Toy Story (1995), the film was fast tracked into production in July 2015 after the bidding war and the project was officially announced in April 2016, originally titled EmojiMovie: Express Yourself. Most of the lead cast members were hired throughout the rest of the year. The Emoji Movie had a production time of two years, shorter than most other animated films. The marketing of the film drew a negative response from the public and an internet backlash, before the film's release.
The Emoji Movie premiered on July 23, 2017, at the Regency Village Theatre and was theatrically released in the United States five days later. It was a commercial success, after grossing over $217 million worldwide against a $50 million production budget. However, the film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics, who criticized its script, humor, use of product placement,[4] tone, voice performances, lack of originality, and plot, with negative comparisons and similarities to other animated films, especially Wreck-It Ralph (2012), The Lego Movie (2014), and Inside Out (2015).[5]The Emoji Movie was nominated for five awards at the 38th Golden Raspberry Awards, a mock award show honoring the worst of cinema, winning four. It is the first animated film to win in any of those categories.[6] It is frequently ranked as the worst film of 2017, as well as one of the worst animated movies ever made.[7]
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also known informally as the poomoji (slang), poop emoji (American English), or poo emoji (British English), is an emoji resembling a coiled pile of...
Angry Birds Movie (2016), TheEmojiMovie (2017), and Luca (2021). Rudolph starred in the NBC sitcom Up All Night (2011–2012) and co-hosted the variety show...
filmmaker, and voice actor, known for directing TheEmojiMovie, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, Igor, and the unreleased DreamWorks Animation film B.O...
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and the Chipmunks (2009–2015), as well as TheEmojiMovie (2017). On television, Faris had a recurring role as Erica in the final season of the NBC sitcom...
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Screenplay, The EmojiMovie became the first full-length animated motion picture to receive nominations for those specific categories at the Golden Raspberry...
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included a role in the series Nashville (2015), roles in the films TheEmojiMovie (2017) and Zoe (2018), becoming an ambassador for the World Food Programme...
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December 18, 2015. "'TheEmojiMovie': Meet the Famous Voices Behind the Symbols". The Hollywood Reporter. July 17, 2017. Archived from the original on December...
Sony Pictures Animation's TheEmojiMovie; DreamWorks Animation' The Croods, as a story developer; and Laika's Kubo and the Two Strings, which he originally...
thanking him for being "the [No. 1] fan of TheEmojiMovie". They invited him to the world premiere on July 23, and sent EmojiMovie–related merchandise....
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second week the film dropped just 37% and grossed $19.6 million, finishing 3rd at the box office behind Dunkirk and newcomer TheEmojiMovie, and in its...
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Kingdom, while in the United States on August 1, 2017, four days after the release of TheEmojiMovie. TheEmoji Code claims that Emoji fulfils a similar...
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