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Directed by | Chris Columbus |
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Story by | Tim Herlihy |
Based on | Pixels by Patrick Jean |
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Cinematography | Amir Mokri |
Edited by | Hughes Winborne |
Music by | Henry Jackman |
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Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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Running time | 106 minutes[2] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $88–129 million[4][5] |
Box office | $244.9 million[5] |
Pixels is a 2015 science fiction action comedy film[6] directed by Chris Columbus and written by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling and based on a story by the former.[5] Loosely adapted from the 2010 short film Pixels by Patrick Jean (who serves as an executive producer on the film), the film stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad and Brian Cox. Combining animated video game characters and visual effects, the film involves an alien force misinterpreting video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, to which they respond by attacking Earth with technological recreations of icons from the games. The President of the United States assembles a team of former arcade champions to lead the planet's defense.
Development on the film began in 2010 with Chris Columbus signing on to direct in 2013. Licensing for arcade game characters that appear in the film was obtained the following year. Filming began in Toronto on May 28, 2014, and was completed in three months.Visual effect techniques employed the use of voxels, a three-dimensional cube in 3D computer graphics, to replicate the low-resolution graphics of the arcade games on the screen.
Pixels was theatrically released in the United States on July 24, 2015, by Columbia Pictures. The film received generally negative reviews, grossing $244 million worldwide against a production budget of $88–129 million. It was nominated for the 36th Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Picture.
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