The Garfield Movie
2024 film by Mark Dindal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Garfield Movie is a 2024 American animated adventure comedy film based on Jim Davis' comic strip Garfield. Directed by Mark Dindal from a screenplay written by David Reynolds and the writing team of Paul A. Kaplan and Mark Torgove, the film stars Chris Pratt as the voice of the titular character, alongside the voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang, and Snoop Dogg. In the film, Garfield is reunited with his long-lost father, a street cat named Vic, being forced into joining him on a high-stakes adventure.
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Directed by | Mark Dindal |
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Based on | Garfield by Jim Davis |
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Edited by | Mark Keefer |
Music by | John Debney |
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Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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Running time | 101 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $60 million[3] |
Box office | $22 million[3] |
Development on a new animated Garfield film began at Alcon Entertainment in May 2016, with producers and writers attached. Dindal was announced as the film's director in November 2018, and pre-production began the following month. In 2021, Sony Pictures had purchased the distribution rights for the film and Pratt was cast as Garfield, with the rest of the cast joining the following year. The film was animated by DNEG Animation, while John Debney, a frequent collaborator of Dindal, composed the score.
The Garfield Movie is set to be theatrically released in the United States on May 24, 2024, by Sony Pictures Releasing under its Columbia Pictures label.