Ice Age (franchise)

Ice Age
Created by	Michael J. Wilson[1]
Original work	Ice Age (2002)
Owner	20th Century Studios
Years	2002–present
Films and television
Film(s)	Main series Ice Age (2002) The Meltdown (2006) Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) Continental Drift (2012) Collision Course (2016) Ice Age 6 (2026) Spin-off The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022)
Short film(s)	Gone Nutty (2002) No Time for Nuts (2006) Surviving Sid (2008) Scrat's Continental Crack-Up (2010) Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 (2011) Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe (2015) Scrat: Spaced Out (2016)
Animated series	Scrat Tales (2022)
Television special(s)	A Mammoth Christmas (2011) The Great Egg-Scapade (2016)
Theatrical presentations
Play(s)	Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure
Games
Video game(s)	Ice Age (2002) The Meltdown (2006) Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) Continental Drift – Arctic Games (2012)
Audio
Soundtrack(s)	Ice Age The Meltdown Dawn of the Dinosaurs Continental Drift Collision Course The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild Scrat Tales

Ice Age is an American media franchise centering on a group of mammals surviving the Pleistocene ice age. It consists of computer-animated films, short films, TV specials and a series of video games. The first five films were produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by its then parent company 20th Century Fox. The series features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, and Chris Wedge. The film series centers mainly on "the Herd," which since the first film consists of at least Manny (a woolly mammoth), Sid (a ground sloth), and Diego (a Smilodon). The franchise also features mostly independent plotlines involving a dialogue-free saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat, who ends up in misadventures from trying to retrieve and bury his acorns.

Five theatrical films have been released in the series: Ice Age in 2002, Ice Age: The Meltdown in 2006, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012, and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016. As of April 2016, the franchise had generated $6 billion in revenue,^[2] making it one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

A standalone spin-off film, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, was produced by Walt Disney Pictures without the involvement of Blue Sky and released exclusively on Disney+ in January 2022; Simon Pegg was the only returning actor. A sixth film, Ice Age 6, is in production for release on December 18, 2026, with most of the main cast reprising their roles from previous installments.