Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
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Directed by	Patrick Gilmore Tim Johnson
Produced by	Jeffrey Katzenberg Mireille Soria
Written by	John Logan
Starring	Brad Pitt Catherine Zeta-Jones Michelle Pfeiffer Joseph Fiennes
Music by	Harry Gregson-Williams
Editing by	Tom Finan
Distributed by	DreamWorks Distribution
Release date(s)	July 2, 2003 July 25 August 21 December 19
Running time	1hr. 26 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English/Cantonese/Italian
Budget	$60,000,000 (estimate)
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is a 2003 animated film produced by DreamWorks SKG with voices of characters from Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Joseph Fiennes.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Reaction and Box Office
4 Trivia
5 External links

[edit] Plot

An Arabian sailor named Sinbad is on a quest to find the legendary Book of Peace, a mysterious artifact that Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos, has framed him for stealing. If he fails on this quest, his childhood friend Prince Proteus of Syracuse will take Sindbad's death penalty. He is accompanied by a motley crew and by the Lady Marina of Thrace, a noble born (also Proteus's fiancee) who becomes very attached to Sinbad. This story takes the name Sinbad, the presence of a Roc, as well as the incident wherein Sinbad and Company encounter an island that turns out to be the back of some great sea-beast from the Arabian Nights; however, much of the setting is derived from Greek mythology, which includes a trip to Tartarus to recover the book and an encounter with the Sirens. The plot of Proteus taking Sindbad's place is similar to the legend of Damon and Pythias.

[edit] Cast

Brad Pitt - Sinbad
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Marina
Michelle Pfeiffer - Eris
Joseph Fiennes - Proteus
Dennis Haysbert - Kale
Adriano Giannini - Rat the Lookout
Timothy West - King Dymas

[edit] Reaction and Box Office

The film was considered a commercial failure in the US, where it became the lowest earning film of 2003 to be shown at 3,000+ theatres. It would earn an estimated $26.5 million at 3,086 theatres in the US, though it managed to gross $74 million worldwide.[1] Because of this, it is the last traditionally-animated feature film made by DreamWorks. Additionally, the film's poor performance led Jeffrey Katzenberg to proclaim that traditional animation was dead, and the American public were more interested in computer animation, which led to much controversy with directors and animators who worked with the traditional format.

[edit] Trivia

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Brad Pitt replaced Russell Crowe as the voice of Sinbad because Crowe was already filming another project.
Christine Baranski studied with English voice expert Patsy Rodenberg, in order to lower her register about an octave for the deep voice of Sinbad's villainess but the role eventually went to the more bankable Michelle Pfeiffer.
Sinbad is a 2D/CG animated movie, much like The Prince of Egypt and The Road To El Dorado.
Sinbad is the first movie to be produced fully using the Linux operating system.
In the beginning, you can see Eris looking at the world, which is spherical, but at the end the world is flat, and Sinbad and Marina are flying from the edge into Tarturus.