Big Hero 6 (2014)

Drop everything. Save the world.

A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.

Directed by: Chris Williams, Don Hall

Written by: Robert L. Baird, Jordan Roberts, Daniel Gerson

Music by: Henry Jackman

Starring: Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, Daniel Henney, T.J. Miller, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans Jr., Genesis Rodriguez, James Cromwell, Alan Tudyk, Maya Rudolph

Genre: Adventure, Family, Animation, Action, Comedy

Released: 2014-10-24

Runtime: 102 minutes

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Big Hero 6 (2014): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• While directing Winnie the Pooh (2011), director Don Hall was scrolling through a Marvel database when he stumbled upon Big Hero 6, a comic he had never heard of before.
• He pitched the concept to John Lasseter in 2011, as one of five ideas for possible productions for Walt Disney Animation Studios, and this particular idea "struck a chord" with Lasseter, Hall and Chris Williams.
• Development on Hyperion started in 2011 and was based upon research into multi-bounce complex global illumination originally conducted at Disney Research in Zürich.
• Other sources of inspiration cited by the team include Japanese anime, such as Hayao Miyazaki films, including Spirited Away (2001) and The Wind Rises (2013), and Pokémon, as well as Shogun Warriors toys.
• Worldwide, it is the highest-grossing animated film of 2014, and one of the highest-grossing animated films of all time.
• On February 15, 2015, Big Hero 6 became the third-highest-grossing Disney animated film in both the U.S. and Canada, behind The Lion King and Frozen.
• In the U.S. and Canada, the film is the second-highest-grossing science-fiction animated film (behind 2008's WALL-E), the third-highest-grossing animated superhero comedy film (behind 2004's The Incredibles and 2018's Incredibles 2), and the fifth-highest-grossing Disney animated film.
• Big Hero 6 debuted at the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival on October 23, 2014 and was released in the United States on November 7.
• As part of Disney's 100th anniversary, Big Hero 6 was re-released in Helios theaters across Poland on October 15, 2023.
• Rafer Guzmán from Newsday gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, saying that "Marvel plus Disney plus John Lasseter equals an enjoyable jumble of kid-approved action", with "rich, vivid colors and filled with clever details".
• The world premiere of Big Hero 6 in 3D took place at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival on October 31, 2014.
• Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, it was directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, and written by Jordan Roberts, Robert L. Baird and Daniel Gerson.
• Ryan Potter as Hiro Hamada, a fourteen-year-old robotics prodigy.
• Scott Adsit as Baymax, an inflatable robot invented by Tadashi as a medical assistant.
• Jamie Chung as Go Go Tomago, a tough and athletic student who specializes in electromagnetics.

Source: Wikipedia

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