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===Third film===
===Third film===
Director Carlos Saldanha had kept the possibility for ''Rio 3'' open. In April 2014, he stated, "Of course, I have a lot of stories to tell, so we're [starting to] prepare for it."<ref>{{cite news|title=Rio 3: The Cast Tells Us Where They Want to Go In A Sequel|publisher=Cinemablend.com|url=https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Rio-3-Cast-Tells-Us-Where-They-Want-Go-Sequel-42545.html|access-date=April 14, 2014|date=April 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415144913/http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Rio-3-Cast-Tells-Us-Where-They-Want-Go-Sequel-42545.html|archive-date=April 15, 2014|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
Director Carlos Saldanha had kept the possibility for ''Rio 3'' open. In April 2014, he stated, "Of course, I have a lot of stories to tell, so we're [starting to] prepare for it."<ref>{{cite news |title=Rio 3: The Cast Tells Us Where They Want to Go In A Sequel |publisher=Cinemablend.com |url=https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Rio-3-Cast-Tells-Us-Where-They-Want-Go-Sequel-42545.html |access-date=April 14, 2014|date=April 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415144913/http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Rio-3-Cast-Tells-Us-Where-They-Want-Go-Sequel-42545.html|archive-date=April 15, 2014|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>


However, [[Blue Sky Studios]] shut down on April 10, 2021, leaving the possibility of a third film uncertain. But during the promotion of ''[[The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild]]'', it was revealed that a third ''Rio'' movie was in development, with Ray DeLaurentis penning the script.<ref>[https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/documents/production_notes_disney_0d41ade6.pdf Production Document]</ref>
The shut down of [[Blue Sky Studios]] on April 10, 2021, left the possibility of a third film uncertain. During the promotion of ''[[The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild]]'', it was revealed that a third ''Rio'' movie was in development, with Ray DeLaurentis penning the script.<ref>[https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/documents/production_notes_disney_0d41ade6.pdf Production Document]</ref>


===Spin-off===
===Spin-off===
In October 2019, after the [[acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney]], it was reported that a spin-off centered on Nico and Pedro was in early development for [[Disney+]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Fisher|first1=Jacob|url=https://discussingfilm.net/2019/10/25/ice-age-rio-spinoffs-in-early-development-for-disney-exclusive/|title=Ice Age and Rio spinoffs in early development for Disney+|publisher=Discussing Film|date=October 25, 2019|accessdate=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229093524/https://discussingfilm.net/2019/10/25/ice-age-rio-spinoffs-in-early-development-for-disney-exclusive/|url-status=live}}</ref> However, in April 2021, Blue Sky Studios shut down following an announcement on February 9, 2021; the fate of this spin-off has been left uncertain since.<ref name="Deadline">{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2021/02/blue-sky-studios-closing-disney-ice-age-franchise-animation-1234690310/|title=Disney Closing Blue Sky Studios, Fox's Once-Dominant Animation House Behind 'Ice Age' Franchise|work=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|date=February 4, 2021|access-date=February 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209175505/https://deadline.com/2021/02/blue-sky-studios-closing-disney-ice-age-franchise-animation-1234690310/|archive-date=February 9, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>
In October 2019, after the [[acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney]], it was reported that a spin-off centered on Nico and Pedro was in early development for [[Disney+]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Fisher|first1=Jacob|url=https://discussingfilm.net/2019/10/25/ice-age-rio-spinoffs-in-early-development-for-disney-exclusive/|title=Ice Age and Rio spinoffs in early development for Disney+|publisher=Discussing Film|date=October 25, 2019|accessdate=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229093524/https://discussingfilm.net/2019/10/25/ice-age-rio-spinoffs-in-early-development-for-disney-exclusive/|url-status=live}}</ref> The shut down of Blue Sky Studios in 2021 left the fate of this spin-off uncertain.<ref name="Deadline">{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2021/02/blue-sky-studios-closing-disney-ice-age-franchise-animation-1234690310/|title=Disney Closing Blue Sky Studios, Fox's Once-Dominant Animation House Behind 'Ice Age' Franchise|work=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|date=February 4, 2021|access-date=February 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209175505/https://deadline.com/2021/02/blue-sky-studios-closing-disney-ice-age-franchise-animation-1234690310/|archive-date=February 9, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Notes==
==Notes==

Revision as of 00:57, 24 April 2022

Rio
A blue Spix's macaw wearing a yellow scarf is surrounded by other birds and animals from the film. They sit on a sandy beach with beachgoing tourists in the background, facing away. The weather is mostly sunny, with one cloud in the sky. The text reads "From the creators of Ice Age: RIO"
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCarlos Saldanha
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Carlos Saldanha
  • Earl Richey Jones
  • Todd Jones
Produced by
  • Bruce Anderson
  • John C. Donkin
Starring
CinematographyRenato Falcão
Edited byHarry Hitner
Music byJohn Powell
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • March 22, 2011 (2011-03-22) (World premiere)[1]
  • April 15, 2011 (2011-04-15) (North America)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish[2]
Budget$90 million[3]
Box office$484.6 million[4]

Rio is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated musical adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation, and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro,[5] where the film is set. The film features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, Jemaine Clement, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, will.i.am, and Jamie Foxx. It tells the story of Blu (Eisenberg), a domesticated male Spix's macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a free-spirited female Spix's macaw, Jewel (Hathaway). The two eventually fall in love, and together they have to escape from being smuggled by Nigel (Clement), a cockatoo.

Saldanha developed his first story concept of Rio in 1995, in which a penguin is washed up in Rio. Saldanha learned of the production of the films Happy Feet (2006) and Surf's Up (2007), and changed the concept to involve macaws and their environments in Rio. He proposed his idea to Chris Wedge in 2006, and the project was set up at Blue Sky. The main voice actors were approached in 2009. During production, the crew visited Rio de Janeiro and also consulted with an expert on macaws at the Bronx Zoo to study their movements.

Rio premiered on March 22, 2011, in Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, followed by its general release on April 15, 2011, by 20th Century Fox. The film received generally positive reviews from film critics, who praised the visuals, voice acting and music. The film was also a box office success, grossing over $143 million in the United States and $484 million worldwide. The film was nominated for Best Original Song for the song "Real in Rio" at the 84th Academy Awards, but lost to the other nominee, "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets.[6] A sequel, Rio 2, was released on April 11, 2014.

Plot

In Brazil, various exotic birds are smuggled out of the country. In Moose Lake, Minnesota, a crate with a orphaned male Spix's macaw hatchling who is unable to fly, falls out of a truck and is found by a little girl named Linda Gunderson, who names him Blu. Over the next 15 years,[7] Linda comes to own a bookstore. Highly tame and unable to fly because he is scared to, Blu is ridiculed frequently by the Canada geese that come by outside of Linda's bookstore because of this. One day, in late winter, ornithologist Túlio Monteiro invites Blu and Linda to Rio de Janeiro because Blu, who is the last known male of his species, needs to mate with the last known female macaw. Linda initially refuses, but later accepts and they fly to Rio. At Túlio's aviary, Blu meets Jewel, a fiercely independent Spix's macaw female who longs to flee back to the wilderness. The macaws are captured by Fernando, an orphaned boy and a sulphur-crested cockatoo named Nigel, both of whom work for a group of smugglers led by Marcel, who wants to leave the country as soon as possible to secure a black market deal regarding Blu and Jewel.

While Fernando has second thoughts about his actions, Nigel tells the macaws of his desire to exact revenge on "pretty birds" after a parakeet replaced his role on a television show. Because of Blu's familiarity with cages, he is able to escape with Jewel and flee into the jungle. Fernando meets Linda and Túlio and helps them find the birds, while Blu and Jewel meet Rafael, a toco toucan, who offers to take them to his bulldog friend, Luiz, to remove the legcuffs holding them together. Rafael attempts to teach Blu how to fly before they meet up with a red-crested cardinal named Pedro and his yellow canary friend Nico. Meanwhile, Nigel coerces a horde of thieving marmosets to capture Blu and Jewel. Pedro and Nico then take the macaws to a samba dance party, where they dance together and begin to fall in love, until the marmosets crash the party. The birds fight them off while the five escape on a tram.

Fernando takes Linda and Túlio to the smugglers' hideout, where they discover the birds have already been moved out. Marcel's henchmen, Armando and Tipa, arrive and tell Fernando that they are planning to use the Rio Carnival parade to take the birds to the airport, as the other streets have been closed off for the festivities. Meanwhile, Blu and the others meet Luiz, who is able to break the chain holding Blu and Jewel together. Once they are released Jewel flies happily into the sky with the other birds. Feeling hurt, Blu goes to look for Linda, but Jewel does not want to leave Blu behind. After the two get into a heated argument, they decide to go their separate ways.

Pedro and Nico then witness Nigel capturing Jewel. When Blu and Rafael learn of it, they rush to the carnival to rescue her. Meanwhile, Linda and Túlio have spotted the smugglers' parade float and organize a rescue attempt for the birds. As Linda and Túlio pose as dancers in Spix's macaw costumes, Nigel captures Blu and the group. Linda and Túlio fail to stop the smugglers in time as they take off in a Short SC.7 Skyvan. During the flight, Blu breaks out his cage using a fire extinguisher and releases the other captive birds. However, Nigel attacks the macaws, injuring Jewel's wing in the process. Blu sends Nigel flying into one of the plane's propellers with the fire extinguisher, causing the plane to begin to fall. The smugglers flee the plane while Jewel falls out of the open cargo hatch towards the ocean. Jumping out of the plane to rescue her, Blu, using Rafael's technique, discovers that he's able to fly as he and Jewel kiss, and he carries her to Linda and Túlio for help.

Later, Linda and Túlio adopt Fernando and live in the jungle which they have turned into a sanctuary to help protect it & the residents. Blu and Jewel eventually raise three chicks named Bia, Carla, and Tiago together and celebrate with Rafael, Nico, Pedro, Luiz, Linda, and Túlio, who have also set the same bookstore Blu & Linda had from Minnesota in Rio. Meanwhile, Nigel is revealed to have survived the plane crash but Mauro, the leader of the marmosets, ridicules him for his loss of feathers and Marcel, Armando, and Tipa are arrested for their crimes.

Voice cast

Production

Saldanha first had the idea for the film in 1995, involving a penguin being washed up on the beaches of Ipanema; it was changed to the current story after he learned of Happy Feet and Surf's Up (two other films involving penguins) being produced. He pitched the idea to Chris Wedge at Blue Sky in 2006.[7] Saldanha showed the animators maps and books with geographic landmarks and measurements, from which they built a digital version of Rio. Later, a group of artists from the company visited Rio to see the various story locations.[8] The animators also met with an expert on macaws at the Bronx Zoo to gain insight into their movement and personalities.[9] Saldanha himself is a Brazilian from Rio de Janeiro; such elements of Brazilian culture and landmarks were also influenced from Saldanha growing up in Brazil.[9]

The lead voice actors were approached in 2009.[7] Jemaine Clement was approached to do the film after seeing test shots of his character Nigel doing a speech from Flight of the Conchords,[10] which was done prior to a script being finalized.[11] Neil Patrick Harris was supposed to voice Blu, but had other commitments outside production;[12] he was later replaced by Jesse Eisenberg. Eisenberg was asked during the filming of The Social Network if he would do his voice recording on the weekends, and he agreed after reading the script, saying: "It was the perfect antidote to get out of the mindset of my character in Social Network who was so severe, and in some ways so joyless."[13]

For music, they brought on board Sérgio Mendes to act as music guru and online living library.[9] He in turn was able to reach out to artists such as will.i.am and Carlinhos Brown to provide music for the film.[14]

Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway, who voiced Jewel, had acted together before when both were still teenagers, when they played siblings in the short-lived 1999 TV show Get Real. Hathaway stated in an interview that she didn't see Eisenberg during production of Rio except "socially throughout the process," but that she was "very happy for all of his success."[15]

Music

Rio: Music from the Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by
Various Artists
ReleasedMarch 29, 2011 (2011-03-29) (Digital download)
April 5, 2011 (Audio CD)
GenrePop, Latin, alternative hip hop
Length38:11
LabelInterscope, will.i.am Music Group
ProducerSérgio Mendes, John Powell
Blue Sky Studios film soundtrack chronology
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
(2009) 		Rio: Music from the Motion Picture
(2011) 		Ice Age: Continental Drift
(2012)
Singles from Rio: Music from the Motion Picture
  1. "Telling the World"
    Released: March 22, 2011
Rio
Film score by
John Powell
ReleasedApril 19, 2011 (2011-04-19)
GenreScore
Length47:04
LabelVarèse Sarabande
John Powell film scores chronology
Mars Needs Moms
(2011) 		Rio
(2011) 		Kung Fu Panda 2
(2011)

On March 18, 2011, Brazilian-English singer-songwriter Taio Cruz released a music video and theme song named "Telling the World" on YouTube for the soundtrack.[16]

Rio: Music from the Motion Picture was released in the United States by 20th Century Fox on March 29, 2011, for digital download[17] and by Interscope Records on April 5, 2011, in Audio CD format.[18]

In the Brazilian edition some songs gained a Portuguese version performed by famous Brazilian artists such as Ivete Sangalo (replacing Ester Dean in "Take You to Rio (Remix)") and Carlinhos Brown (replacing Jamie Foxx in "Fly Love"). "Real in Rio" became "Favo de Mel" (Honeycomb) but it was performed by the same artists as the English version.[19][20]

Like with most Blue Sky movies, the film score of Rio was composed by John Powell and was released on April 19, 2011, by Varèse Sarabande Records.[21][22]

Charts

Chart (2011) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[23] 60
US Digital Albums 10
US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums 6
US Billboard Top Rap Albums 2
US Kid Albums 8
US Soundtracks 4

Songs

The soundtrack includes bonus songs not heard during the film, such as "Balanço Carioca" (Mikael Mutti) and "Samba de Orly" (Bebel Gilberto). Original songs performed in the film include:

No.TitleWriter(s)Performer(s)Length
1."Real in Rio"Sérgio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown, Mikael Mutti, John Powell & Siedah GarrettJesse Eisenberg, Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, will.i.am & The Rio Singers 
2."Let Me Take You to Rio (Blu's Arrival)"Ester Dean, Brown & MuttiEster Dean & Carlinhos Brown 
3."Mas que Nada" (2011 Rio Version)Jorge Ben JorSérgio Mendes feat. Gracinha Leporace 
4."Hot Wings (I Wanna Party)"will.i.amwill.i.am, Jamie Foxx & Anne Hathaway 
5."Pretty Bird"Jemaine Clement, Powell, Yoni Brenner & Mike ReissJemaine Clement 
6."Fly Love"Brown & GarrettJamie Foxx 
7."Telling the World"Taio Cruz & Alan KasiryeTaio Cruz 
8."Funky Monkey"Brown, Mutti & GarrettSiedah Garrett, Carlinhos Brown, Mikael Mutti & Davi Vieira 
9."Take You to Rio"Dean, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen & Tor Erik HermansenEster Dean 
10."Sapo Cai"Mendes, Brown & MuttiCarlinhos Brown & Mikael Mutti 

Release

The world premiere of Rio took place on March 22, 2011, at a Cinépolis theater in Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro.[1][24] The United States premiere was on April 10, 2011, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, and was released throughout the country five days later.[25] Since May 2009, it had been scheduled to be released in the United States on April 8, 2011, but in December 2010, it was rescheduled a week later to April 15, 2011.[26][27]

Marketing

In April 2011, Oreo announced its special edition Oreo cookies with blue cream in promotion of the film. The promotion included stickers inside each package of cookies. Two types of contest were also announced: first, by completing an album of stickers, consumers could win three movie passes and medium snack bar combos; second, by finding winning stickers in packages with prizes including a trip to Rio de Janeiro, backpacks, cinema passes for a year, and 3D glasses. The promotion ended on May 30, 2011.[28] The promotion is available in Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia.[citation needed]

On January 27, 2011, Rovio Mobile announced a partnership with 20th Century Fox to promote the film. The game Angry Birds Rio was released in March 2011 on the Android Market and the Apple App Store with 50 levels. Rovio released more levels throughout 2011.[29] With the DVD and Blu-ray release, Rovio and 20th Century Fox announced that they were going to start selling Rio Plush Toys in the Angry Birds Online Store and the DVD and Blu-ray comes with a code for 15 Hidden Levels, along with 3 Angry Birds Rio Videos. Also, McDonald's ran a promotion with Rio toys in their Happy Meals.[30]

In February 2011, the MPAA gave the film a PG rating for "mild off-color humor". The producers, displeased by this rating, resubmitted an edited version of the film to the ratings board one month later, and the MPAA changed the film to a G rating.[31]

Home media

As a tribute to the country where most of the story is set and where the director was born, Rio was first released for home video in Brazil, on both DVD and Blu-ray, on July 7, 2011.[32] The North American release date was August 2, 2011,[33] and the Australian release date was September 28, 2011.[34] As of June 2014, a total of 12 million Blu-ray and DVD units had been sold worldwide.[35]

Rio is available in 4 different packages: a 4-disc "Party Edition" combination package (3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Copy), a 3-disc "Party Edition" combination package (Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Copy), a 2-disc "Party Edition" combination package (DVD and Digital Copy), and a single disc DVD.[33][36] The "Digital Copy" included with the 3-disc combination package is a separate disc that allows users to download a copy of the film to a computer through iTunes or Windows Media Player software. The 3-disc combination package also comes with an hour of bonus features.[36]

Rio was also made available to Disney+ on April 16, 2021, but has been removed from the service as of December 2, 2021.

Video games

Rio (video game)
Developer(s)Eurocom (Consoles)
THQ (DS)
Publisher(s)THQ
Platform(s)Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360
ReleaseNintendo DS, PlayStation 3, Wii & Xbox 360
  • NA: April 12, 2011
  • AU: April 7, 2011
  • EU: April 8, 2011
Genre(s)Party
Musical Platform (Nintendo DS)
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

A video game based on the film was released on April 12, 2011, by THQ, for the Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, and the Xbox 360.[37] Another game, starring the Angry Birds, called Angry Birds Rio, was released in March 2011 for various mobile and desktop systems.[38]

Reception (Rio)

The game received mixed reception, with, for lowest to highest, Metacritic at 60 out of 100 based on 16 reviews for the Xbox 360 version,[39] and 65 out of 100 based on 8 reviews for the PlayStation 3 version.[40] And in GameRankings, 40.00% for the Wii version, 58.00% for the Nintendo DS version, 64.73% for the Xbox 360 version, and 71.67% for the PlayStation 3.

Rio: The 4-D Experience

Rio: The 4-D Experience is a 12-minute 4D film shown at various 4-D theatres over the world. Produced by SimEx-Iwerks, it premiered on September 27, 2013, at the San Diego Zoo 4-D Theater.[41] Since May 24, 2014, it is being shown at the 5D Cinema at the revived Kentucky Kingdom. Since July 2014, it is being shown at the 4D Special FX Theater at Moody Gardens.[42] And since October 25, 2014, it is being shown at the Roxy Theatre at Warner Bros. Movie World.[43]

Reception

Box office

Rio made $143,619,809 in North America, along with $341,015,951 in other territories for a total of $484,635,760 worldwide, becoming the 13th highest-grossing film of 2011[44] and the 107th highest-grossing film of all time.[4] It was the first film of 2011 to pass the $400-million mark.

North America

Rio debuted with $39,225,962 during its opening weekend on approximately 6,400 screens at 3,826 theaters. It ranked No. 1 at the box office surpassing the other new wide release, Scream 4, which ranked #2.[45] This was the highest-grossing opening weekend of 2011 that far, finishing the year at sixteenth.[46] It also scored the largest opening weekend in April for an animated feature, and the sixth largest in April overall.[47] On its second weekend (Easter weekend) it retained first place at the box office, dropping only 33% to $26.3 million, therefore surpassing that weekend's releases, Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family ($25.1 million), Water for Elephants ($16.8 million), and African Cats ($6 million), which ranked second, third, and sixth, respectively.[48] Rio's income of $143.6 million made it Blue Sky's second lowest box office result at the time, surpassing only Robots,[49] and the 18th highest-grossing film of the year in North America.[50]

Other territories

On its first weekend overseas (the weekend before its release in North America) it topped the box office with $54.9 million from 11,714 screens in 72 countries.[51] On its second weekend it earned $55.4 million, still on top of the overseas box office[52] and on its third weekend it remained at the summit of the box office, grossing an estimated $44.3 million. It therefore marked the second film that succeeded in topping the overseas box office three times in 2011, joining Tangled, although it is the only one that did it on three consecutive weekends.[53]

In Brazil, the film's main setting and Saldanha's homeland, Rio was the largest release ever with over 1,000 screens.[54] Its opening weekend gross of $8.4 million was the biggest ever for an American film[55] (surpassed one year later by Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted). On its second weekend it earned $7.2 million, falling just 14% from its opening. It then delivered the highest-grossing third weekend in history with $6.3 million (a 12% decline).[56] Rio finished 2011 with a final gross of $36.8 million (R$68.7 million), the second highest income of the year after The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1.[57]

In Russia and the CIS, it topped the box office with $11.3 million during its opening weekend (including weekday previews), surpassing Tangled for the largest all-time opening of a non-sequel animated feature. It earned $24.7 million in total, marking the fourth largest animated film of all time.[58] In Venezuela, it has earned $8 million, marking the second-highest-grossing film of all time behind Ice Age 3 ($11.6 million).[59] In Uruguay, it is the fourth highest-grossing film of all time with $754,820 after Titanic ($2.1 million), Avatar ($1.1 million), and Ice Age 3 ($1 million).[60] In Peru, grossing $3.8 million, it is the third-largest animated feature behind Ice Age 3 and Shrek Forever After, and the fourth highest-grossing film of all time behind these two and Avatar.[61] In India, it grossed ₹10,000,000 in three weeks making the biggest animated opener ever.[62]

Critical response

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 72% approval rating based on 152 reviews, with an average score of 6.4/10. The website's consensus is: "This straightforward movie hits great heights thanks to its colorful visual palette, catchy music, and funny vocal performances."[63] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to 29 reviews from mainstream critics, the film has an average score of 63 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[64]

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a mixed "C" rating; he praised the animation in Rio and its music, but later went on to say that the film is "less a Pixar-level pleasure than a busy, frantic, and overstuffed dessert of a movie."[65] Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, praising its comic action, voices and visuals.[66]

Accolades

List of awards and nominations
Award Category Recipient(s) Result
84th Academy Awards Best Original Song, "Real in Rio" Sérgio Mendes
Carlinhos Brown
Siedah Garrett 		Nominated
Annie Awards Best Animated Feature Bruce Anderson
John C. Donkin
Best Character Animation in an Animated Production Jeff Gabor Won
Patrik Puhala Nominated
Best Character Design in a Feature Production Sergios Pablos
Directing in an Animated Feature Production Carlos Saldanha
Best Music in an Animated Feature Production Mikael Mutti
Siedah Garrett
Carlinhos Brown
Sérgio Mendes
John Powell
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Thomas Cardone
Kyle MacNaughton
Peter Chan
Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Jemaine Clement
38th People's Choice Awards[67] Favorite Movie Animated Voice Anne Hathaway
2011 Teen Choice Awards[68]
2012 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Animated Movie
38th Saturn Awards Best Animated Film
10th Visual Effects Society Awards[69] Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Diana Diriwaechter, Sang Jun Lee, Sergio Pablos, Aamir Tarin

Expanded franchise

Sequel

Main article: Rio 2

A sequel, titled Rio 2, was released on April 11, 2014. Carlos Saldanha, the creator and director of the first film, returned as director. All the main cast, including Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jemaine Clement, Jamie Foxx, will.i.am, Tracy Morgan, George Lopez, Jake T. Austin, Leslie Mann, and Rodrigo Santoro, reprised their roles. New cast includes Andy García, Bruno Mars, Kristin Chenoweth, Rita Moreno, Amandla Stenberg, Rachel Crow, Pierce Gagnon, and Natalie Morales. The sequel follows Blu, Jewel and their three kids on a venture into the Amazon where they try to live like real birds. Eventually, they find Jewel's long-lost father Eduardo, who is in hiding with a tribe of other Spix's macaw. At first everything seems perfect, but Blu is having trouble adapting to the wild. Eventually, they discover that the Amazon is under threat, and that Blu and Jewel's old nemesis, Nigel the cockatoo, is back for revenge.[70]

Third film

Director Carlos Saldanha had kept the possibility for Rio 3 open. In April 2014, he stated, "Of course, I have a lot of stories to tell, so we're [starting to] prepare for it."[71]

The shut down of Blue Sky Studios on April 10, 2021, left the possibility of a third film uncertain. During the promotion of The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, it was revealed that a third Rio movie was in development, with Ray DeLaurentis penning the script.[72]

Spin-off

In October 2019, after the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, it was reported that a spin-off centered on Nico and Pedro was in early development for Disney+.[73] The shut down of Blue Sky Studios in 2021 left the fate of this spin-off uncertain.[74]

Notes

  1. ^ Credited as Jeffrey Ventimilia

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