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Antz is a 1998 American animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Pacific Data Images, and distributed by the former via DreamWorks Distribution. It was directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson from a screenplay written by Todd Alcott and the writing team of Chris and Paul Weitz .
Katzenberg moved the opening of Antz from spring 1999 to October 1998 to compete with Pixar's release. [24] [28] David Price writes in his 2008 book The Pixar Touch that a rumor, "never confirmed", was that Katzenberg had given PDI "rich financial incentives to induce them to whatever it would take to have Antz ready first, despite Pixar's head ...
As of 2025, DreamWorks Animation has released 50 feature films, with their first being Antz on October 2, 1998, and their latest being Dog Man on January 31, 2025. Their upcoming slate of films includes How to Train Your Dragon on June 13, 2025, The Bad Guys 2 on August 1, 2025, Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie on September 26, 2025, and Shrek 5 on ...
The song is featured in the trailer of the 1998 DreamWorks animated movie Antz, in The Prince of Egypt 1999 VHS opening, and the Shrek 2001 VHS opening. The song was featured in the trailer and TV spot of the 2008 family movie Nim's Island.
Pacific Data Images's first feature film, Antz, was released by DreamWorks Pictures October 2, 1998. This was followed by Shrek May 18, 2001. After the success of Antz, Sega contacted the company to create a series of commercials for a marketing campaign for the launch of the Sega Dreamcast.
Antz: 1998 A Bug's Life: 1998 Both are computer-animated films about insects, starring a non-conformist ant who falls in love with an ant princess, leaves the mound, and eventually returns and is hailed as a hero. [10] Deep Impact: 1998 Armageddon: 1998 Also Doomsday Rock (1997), Asteroid (1997), Judgment Day (1998), and Tycus (1998).
Bill Muller of The Arizona Republic wrote, "The Ant Bully, in trying to match Antz or A Bug's Life, just digs itself into a big hole." [13] Jack Mathews of the New York Daily News was positive about the film's lack of pop-culture references and thought that the film does not "talk down" to children.
The three other "Special Edition" volumes were released on June 19, 1992. The shorts featured on volumes 1-5 were all new-to-VHS in the United States and Canada at the time, while shorts featured on all subsequent volumes are duplicated from the earlier "Cartoon Classics" wave and other early Disney VHS releases.