Antz is a 1998 American computer animated adventure comedy film directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson in their directorial debut, and written by Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz and Todd Alcott. The film features the voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover and Gene Hackman. Some of the main characters share facial similarities with the actors who voice them. Antz was the first film and project from DreamWorks Animation, and the second feature-length computer-animated film after Disney and Pixar's Toy Story.
During its production, a controversial public feud erupted between DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steve Jobs and John Lasseter of Pixar, due to the production of their similar film A Bug's Life, which was released a month later. This only worsened when Disney refused to avoid competition with DreamWorks' intended first animated release, The Prince of Egypt (1998).
Antz premiered on September 19, 1998, at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States on October 2, 1998 by DreamWorks Pictures. It grossed $171.8 million worldwide on a budget of $42–105 million. The film received positive reviews with critics praising the voice cast, animation, humor and its appeal towards adults.
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Z | Woody Allen | Moisés Palacios | Toshio Furakawa | Alexandre Moreno | Wolfgang Draeger | Bernard Murat | Daniel Lafourcade | Oreste Lionello | Waldemar Barwiński | József Kerekes | Dick Eriksson | Janne Reinikainen | PerChristian Ellefsen | Janko Rakoš | Søren SætterLassen | Vasilis Kailas | Jiří Prager | Zhivko Dzhuranov | Dmitriy Filimonov | José Posada | Jon Crespo | |
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Princess Bala | Sharon Stone | Cristina Camargo | Masako Katsuki | Lina Rossana | Martina Treger | Virginie Ogouz | Cristiana Lionello | Julia Kołakowska | Bertalan Ágnes | Anna Lindholm | Petra Karjalainen | Guri Schanke | Daria Knez | Vibeke Hastrup | Zlata Adamovská | Petya Abadzhieva | Mariya Ovchinnikova | Silvia Vilarrasa | Ana GarcíaOlivares | |||
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Weaver | Sylvester Stallone | Arturo Mercado | Tessho Genda | Márcio Simões | Thomas Danneberg | Alain Dorval | Ferruccio Amendola | Piotr Zelt | Gáti Oszkár | Adam Fietz | Rauno Ahonen | Øystein Røger | Bojan Navojec | Jens Jørn Spottag | Pavel Rímský | Petŭr Kalchev | Oleg Kutsenko | Jordi Boixaderas | Luis Bajo | |||
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Azteca | Jennifer Lopez | Cony Madera | Chika Sakamoto | Sylvia Salustti | Carola Ewert | Nathalie Juvet | Ilaria Stagni | Aleksandra Radwan | Rudolf Teréz | Annika Rynger | Hanna Kaila | Lena Meieran | Renata Sopek | Trine Dyrholm | María Zervoú | Martina Hudečková | Tsvetana Mircheva | Tat'yana Bozhok | Núria Domènech | Ana Fernández | ||
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General Mandible | Gene Hackman | Emilio Guerrero | Kinryû Arimoto | Waldyr Sant'anna | Klaus Sonnenschein | Philippe Catoire | Sergio Fiorentini | Miłogost Reczek | Reviczky Gábor | Steve Kratz | Juha Hyppönen | Harald Mæle | Robert Ugrina | Lasse Lunderskov | Vladimír Brabec | Stefan SŭrchadzhivSŭra | Aleksandr Gruzdev | Ramon Puig | Juan Miguel Cuesta | |||
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Colonel Cutter | Christopher Walken | Rafael Rivera | Ryûji Mizuno | Guilherme Briggs | Lutz Riedel | Samuel Labarthe | Massimo Lodolo | Grzegorz Wons | Uri István | Johan Hedenberg | Jukka Voutilainen | Bernhard Ramstad | Slaven Knezović | Peter Zhelder | Ladislav Frej | Petŭr Kalchev | Rudolf Pankov | Óscar Barberán | Javier Dotú | |||
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Queen | Anne Bancroft | Liza Willert | Ikuko Tani | MariaHelena Pader | Inken Sommer | Annie Bertin | Sonia Scotti | Monika SzalatyReczek | Kubik Anna | Lena Ericsson | Tiia Louste | Bente Børsum | Jasna Bilušić | Kirsten Olesen | Jorga Kotrbová | Tsvetana Mircheva | Natal'ya Gurzo | María Luisa Solá | Lucía Esteban | |||
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Chip | Dan Aykroyd | Carlos del Campo | Yū Shimaka | Mauro Ramos | Norbert Gescher | Jean Barney | Oliviero Dinelli | Jacek Kopczyński | Háda János | Mikael Roupé | Veikko Honkanen | Helge WintherLarsen | Aleksandar Cvjetković | Nis Bank Mikkelsen | Jiří Štěpnička | Petŭr Kalchev | Sergey Kislichenko | Pep Antón Muñoz | Miguel Ángel del Hoyo | |||
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Muffy | Jane Curtin | Araceli de León | Tomoko Miyadera | Geisa Vidal | Evelyn Gressmann | Danièle Hazan | Lorenza Biella | Marta Dobecka | Andresz Kati | Annelie BergBhagavan | Sari Havas | Unn Vibeke Hol | Mirela Brekalo | Bente Eskesen | Valérie Zawadská | Tsvetana Mircheva | Natal'ya Gurzo | Montserrat Roig De Puig | Isabel Donate | |||
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Barbatus | Danny Glover | Humberto Solórzano | Nobuo Tanaka | Lauro Fabiano | Jürgen Kluckert | Saïd Amadis | Maurizio Mattioli | Przemysław Bluszcz | Rajhona Ádám | Tommy Blom | Tuomo Holopainen | Per Skjølsvik | Slavko Juraga | Dick Kaysø | Ivan Gübel | Stefan SŭrchadzhievSŭra | Oleg Kutsenko | Miquel Cors | Juan Perucho | |||
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Grebs | John Mahoney | Arturo Casanova | Helmut Krauss | Marc de Georgi | Ennio Coltorti | Hans Wahlgren | Juan FernándezMejías | |||||||||||||||
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Foreman | Grant Shaud | Yamil Atala | Chafurin | Jorge Lucas | Gerald Schaale | Eric Etcheverry | Marc Saez | Enrico Pallini | Janusz Wituch | Juhász György | Andreas Nilsson | Petri Hanttu | Kim Fangen | Peter Røschke | Josef Carda | Stefan SŭrchadzhievSŭra | Boris Bystrov | Alberto Mieza | Fernando de Luis | |||
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Psychologist | Paul Mazursky | Raúl de la Fuente | Carlos Seidl | Lothar Blumhagen | Jean-Bernard Guillard | Edoardo Siravo | Mikael Roupé | Eugenio Barona | ||||||||||||||
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Ant Drumming | Eric Darnell | |||||||||||||||||||||
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