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Disney and 20th Century Animation shared that a sixth Ice Age sequel is officially successful the works, with formed members Ray Romano, Queen Latifah and John Leguizamo acceptable to instrumentality for the animated film.
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The Ice Age movies won't beryllium going extinct.
Disney and 20th Century Animation revealed that the franchise's sixth installment is successful the works astatine the D23 Brazil lawsuit Nov. 8, according to multiple outlets.
And those aren't the lone details astir the forthcoming sequel that person been shared. The studios besides confirmed, per Deadline, that archetypal formed members Ray Romano (who voiced Manny), John Leguizamo (Sid), Queen Latifah (Ellie), Denis Leary (Diego) and Simon Pegg (Buck) are acceptable to instrumentality for the film, which is already successful accumulation and volition get a theatrical release.
It's been implicit 2 decades since the archetypal Ice Age film—co-directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha—hit the large surface successful 2002 and grossed implicit $383.3M astatine the planetary container office. Since then, determination person been 4 follow-up movies—Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)—as good arsenic a 2022 Disney+ spin-off, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild.
For Romano, the franchise's occurrence didn't travel arsenic a large surprise. After all, the animated flicks incorporate each the elements young kids look for successful their entertainment.
"You request a leader similar maine and a bully villain," Romano said successful a 2006 interrogation with Cinema.com. "Kids emotion a scary facet and they emotion the large feline who is going to prevention the day, similar Manny, and past the small comic guys, similar the possums oregon Scrat. They emotion small and comic characters, the littler and funnier the better."
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And the Everybody Loves Raymond alum sees the entreaty for adults arsenic well. As helium explained, "For parents, I deliberation you person to marque the wit a small subtle. They person to constitute for adults arsenic good arsenic kids truthful each generations are entertained and this movie does each that."
And arsenic for however helium feels astir reprising his relation arsenic Manny the Mammoth? He gets much assured voicing the quality arsenic clip goes on.
"The archetypal clip I virtually thought I was going to get fired aft each signaling session," Romano confessed up of the premiere of Ice Age: The Meltdown. "I americium not kidding. I thought ‘I’m not doing it right.’ I panicked. This time, I thought ‘they wouldn’t prosecute maine again, conscionable to occurrence me. They indispensable similar me.’"
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