Arthur Christmas is a 2011 animated Christmas comedy film produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation in association with Aardman Animations, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film is Aardman's second mostly computer-animated feature film after 2006's Flushed Away. It was directed by Sarah Smith (in her feature directorial debut), co-directed by Barry Cook, and written by Smith and Peter Baynham. Featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, and Ashley Jensen, the film centres on Arthur Claus, the younger son of Santa Claus, who discovers that his father's high-tech ship has failed to deliver one girl's present. Accompanied only by his grandfather, a Christmas elf and a team of reindeer, he embarks on a mission to deliver the girl's present personally in the early morning hours of Christmas Day before sunrise.
Following the underperformance of Flushed Away, DreamWorks Animation did not renew its partnership with Aardman. In April 2007, Aardman signed a three-year deal with Sony. Originally titled Operation Rudolph, the project was first announced in 2007. Aardman spent 18 months on pre-production on the story and design in the UK before relocating to Sony's animation studio in Culver City, California, for another 18 months of production. On 27 April 2009, it was reported that production had begun with Aardman and Sony Pictures Imageworks working together on animation.
Arthur Christmas was released on 11 November 2011 in the United Kingdom, and on 23 November in the United States, by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label. The film received positive reviews from critics, and earned $147 million at the box office.
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Arthur Claus | James McAvoy | Edson Matus | Eiji Wentz | Gustavo Pereira | Gabriel Lessard | Sebastian Schulz | Alexis Victor | Oreste Baldini | Paweł Ciołkosz | Levente Molnár | Anton Lundqvist | Riku Nieminen | Christoffer Staib | Ronald Žlabur | JulianChristian ThiesgaardKellerman | Dimitris Marizas | Martin Geraskov | Julian Canameti | Slobodan Stefanović | Anton Kolesnikov | Ivan Labanda | Albano Jerónimo | Endri Çela | Jeon Taeyeol | Roy Chiu | Uri Omanuti | ||
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Malcolm "Santa"Claus | Jim Broadbent | Blas García | Keisuke Ishida | Mauro Ramos | Vincent Davy | Roland Hemmo | Philippe Catoire | Michele Gammino | Paweł Szczesny | Levente Törköly | Bengt Järnblad | Pekka Lehtosaari | Espen BeranekHolm | Ivica Zadro | Nis Bank-Mikkelsen | Manolis Giourgos | Stefan Stefanov | Vladimir Saliu | Feđa Stojanović | Aleksandr Novikov | Joaquín Díaz | Sinde Filipe | Pjerin Vlashi | On YoungSam | Ohad Shachar | |||
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Mrs. Santa | Imelda Staunton | Ruth Toscano | Kazue Komiya | Marize Motta | Michèle Lituac | Joseline Gassen | Fabrizia Castagnoli | Elżbieta Gaertner | Mari Kiss | Irene Lindh | Carla Rindell | Katrine Blomstrand | Mirela Brekalo | Helle Hertz | Viña Papadopoulou | Zhivka Doneva | Aneta Malaj | Katarina Gojković | Lyudmila Gnilova | Aurora García | Ermelinda Duarte | Rudina Malaj | Limor Shapira | |||||
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Steve Claus | Hugh Laurie | Gerardo García | Hôchû Ôtsuka | Marco Ribeiro | Patrick Chouinard | Jaron Löwenberg | Féodor Atkine | Fabrizio Pucci | Tomasz Borkowski | Attila Epres | Niklas Hjulström | Aku Laitinen | Håvard Bakke | Enes Vejzović | Mads M. Nielsen | Vasilis Milios | Hristo Bonin | Helidon Fino | Siniša Ubović | Igor Balalaev | Juan Carlos Gustems | Paulo Pires | Bledi Naska | Ha Sungyong | Sun ChungTai | Assaf Pariente | ||
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Grand-Santa | Bill Nighy | Jesse Conde | Ken'ichi Ogata | Júlio Chaves | Jacques Lavallée | HansJürgen Dittberner | Richard Leblond | Giorgio Lopez | Tomasz Grochoczyński | Tamás Fodor | Nils Eklund | Markku Huhtamo | Per Skjølsvik | Pero Juričić | Lars Knutzon | Kostas Darlasis | Sava Piperov | Xhelil Aliu | Dragan Vujić | Aleksandr Lenkov | Xavier De Llorens | Santiago Cortés | JoãoMaria Pinto | Vladimir Saliu | Song Jun-seok | Albert Cohen | ||
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Bryony Shelfley | Ashley Jensen | Gaby Ugarte | Midori Sangoumi | Mabel Cezar | Eloisa Cervantes | Cathlen Gawlich | Charlyne Pestel | Ilaria Latini | Dominika Kluźniak | Tünde Murányi | Lizette Pålsson | Outi Alanen | Ana Magud | Vicki Berlin | Chrysoula Papadopoulou | Tatyana Etimova | Devis Muka | Jelena Petrović | Olga Shorokhova | Elisabet Bargalló | Clara Schwarze | Ana Vieira | Suela Tukaj | Wei Jing Qi | Shira Naor | |||
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Peter | Marc Wootton | Daisuke Namikawa | Xavier Dolan | Rainer Fritzsche | Andrea Di Maggio | Artur Pontek | Gábor Nagypál | Magnus Rongedal | Antti Lang | Hrvoje Klobučar | Christian Fuhlendorff | Fivos Rimenas | Denard Xhillari | Milan Antonić | Ilya Khvostikov | Roger Pera | Manuel Marques | Artan Skënderasi | Sun Decheng | Adi Raz | ||||||||
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Gwen Hines | Ramona Marquez | Itzel Mendoza | Rio Sasaki | Bia Menezes | Noor Barrere | Arianna Vignoli | Matylda Kaczmarska | Alice SjöbergBrise | Ninni Norra | Mia Aunbirk | Grejsi Morina | Anna Draghileva | Inês Conde | Aya Yagol | ||||||||||||||
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North Pole Computer | Laura Linney | Adriana Casas | Mami Horikoshi | Márcia Coutinho | Mélanie Laberge | Victoria Sturm | Roberta Greganti | Annica Smedius | Jasna Bilušić | Anja Bolette Skov Nielsen | María Zervoú | Vesna Stanković | Natalia Gracheva | Mercedes Montalá | Claudia Cadima | Chen Xu Sheng | Orna Katz | |||||||||||
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Ernie Clicker | Michael Palin | Esteban Siller | Jin Urayama | Isaac Schneider | Hubert Fielden | Eberhard Prüter | Carlo Valli | Andrzej Gawroński | Gábor Forgács | Bert-Åke Varg | Ranko Tihomirović | Piro Malaveci | Marko Marković | Oleg Forostenko | Pep Sais | Bruno Ferreira | Sun Decheng | |||||||||||
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Chief De Silva | Eva Longoria | Gisella Ramírez | Yukari Nozawa | Miriam Ficher | Geneviève Désilets | Cornelia Meinhardt | Emmanuelle Rivière | Francesca Fiorentini | Jennie Jahns | Anita Matić | Ema Andrea | Jelena Stojiljković | Olga Golovanova | Alicia Laorden | Adi Kozlovsky | |||||||||||||
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Pedro | Ryan Patrick Donahoe | Tito Marteddu | Kristen Shalavaci | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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French Boy | Finlay Duff | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Idaho Man | Rich Hall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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N.O.R.A.D. | Jerry Lambert | Mauro Magliozzi | Siniša Ubović | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reporter 1 | Clint Dyer | LuisDaniel Ramírez | Maurício Berger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reporter 2 | Donnie Long | MiguelÁngel Sanromán | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Generals | Deborah Findlay | David Schneider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lead Elf 1 | Robbie Coltrane | Karla Falcón | Marcel Mann | Paolo Buglioni | Eglein Laknori | Silvio Goskova | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lead Elf 2 | Andy Serkis | Mariana Ortiz | Frank-Otto Schenk | Claudia Razzi | Andi Begolli | Anersi Vaka | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lead Elf 3 | Joan Cusack | Karla Falcón | Eberhard Prüter | Saverio Indrio | Kristen Shalavaci | Alba Shtëmbari | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lead Elf 4 | Jane Horrocks | Mariana Ortiz | Sabine Arnhold | Nathalie Kanoui | Claudia Razzi | Ejona Torba | Marta Covas | Rexhina Ibro | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Lead Elf 5 | Rhys Darby | Karla Falcón | Hannes Maurer | Franco Mannella | Dritan Boriçi | Tea Vaka | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lead Elf 6 | Ian Mckee | Mariana Ortiz | Anja Rybiczka | Paolo Buglioni | Lorenc Kaja | Ledian Gjeçi | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lead Elf 7 | Dominic West | Karla Falcón | Marcel Mann | Saverio Indrio | Eglein Laknori | Lejda Çeli | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lead Elf 8 | Sanjeev Bhaskar | Mariana Ortiz | Frank-Otto Schenk | Franco Mannella | Andi Begolli | Silvio Goskova | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elves | Peter Baynham | Karla Falcón | Sabine Arnhold | Paolo Buglioni | Kristen Shalavaci | Rexhina Ibro | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pete Baynham | Mariana Ortiz | Eberhard Prüter | Claudia Razzi | Lorenc Kaja | Alba Shtëmbari | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cody Cameron | Karla Falcón | Hannes Maurer | Saverio Indrio | Dritan Boriçi | Anersi Vaka | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Richard Fulcher | Mariana Ortiz | Anja Rybiczka | Franco Mannella | Ejona Torba | Tea Vaka | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elves | Danny John Jules | Karla Falcón | Marcel Mann | Paolo Buglioni | Eglein Laknori | Ledian Gjeçi | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kevin Eldon | Mariana Ortiz | Frank-Otto Schenk | Saverio Indrio | Andi Begolli | Lejda Çeli | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kris Pearn | Karla Falcón | Sabine Arnhold | Claudia Razzi | Kristen Shalavaci | Silvio Goskova | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stewart Lee | Mariana Ortiz | Eberhard Prüter | Franco Mannella | Lorenc Kaja | Rexhina Ibro | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sarah Smith | Karla Falcón | Hannes Maurer | Paolo Buglioni | Dritan Boriçi | Alba Shtëmbari | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elves | Adam Tandy | Mariana Ortiz | Anja Rybiczka | Claudia Razzi | Ejona Torba | Anersi Vaka | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alan Short | Karla Falcón | Marcel Mann | Saverio Indrio | Eglein Laknori | Tea Vaka | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emma Kennedy | Mariana Ortiz | Frank-Otto Schenk | Franco Mannella | Andi Begolli | Ledian Gjeçi | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kevin Cecil | Karla Falcón | Sabine Arnhold | Paolo Buglioni | Kristen Shalavaci | Lejda Çeli | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pete Jack | Mariana Ortiz | Eberhard Prüter | Franco Mannella | Lorenc Kaja | Silvio Goskova | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elves | Seamus Malone | Karla Falcón | Hannes Maurer | Saverio Indrio | Dritan Boriçi | Rexhina Ibro | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bronagh Gallagher | Mariana Ortiz | Anja Rybiczka | Nathalie Kanoui | Claudia Razzi | Ejona Torba | Alba Shtëmbari | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pete jack | Karla Falcón | Marcel Mann | Paolo Buglioni | Eglein Laknori | Anersi Vaka | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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UNFITA OPS | KerryShale | Ian Ashpitel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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