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| Original work | Finding Nemo (2003) |
| Owner | The Walt Disney Company |
| Years | 2003–present |
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| Magazine(s) | Finding Dory (2016) |
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| Musical(s) | Finding Nemo – The Musical (2007) |
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Finding Nemo[a] is aCGI animatedfilm series andDisneymedia franchise that began with the 2003 filmof the same name, produced byPixar and released byWalt Disney Pictures. The original film was followed by astandalone sequel,Finding Dory, released in 2016. Both films were directed byAndrew Stanton. The film series received widespread critical acclaim from critics and audiences with two films released to-date, the series has grossed $1.9 billion worldwide.
Finding Nemo is the fifthPixar film. The film tells the story of aclownfish named Nemo (voiced byAlexander Gould), who gets abducted from his home in theGreat Barrier Reef and winds up in a dentist’s office aquarium. His overprotective father Marlin (voiced byAlbert Brooks), along with an amnesiacregal tang named Dory (voiced byEllen DeGeneres), searches for him all the way toSydney Harbour. Along the way, Marlin learns to take risks and let little Nemo take care of himself.
Finding Dory is the seventeenthPixar film. The film focuses on the amnesiac character Dory (voiced byEllen DeGeneres), who travels toCalifornia to find her long-lost parents, Jenny and Charlie, as well as exploring the idea of her being reunited with her family.[3] It takes place one year afterFinding Nemo and is set off the coast ofMorro Bay, California.[4][5]
DirectorAndrew Stanton commented in June 2016 about the possibility of a thirdFinding film, stating:
"I really do feel like that this was the missing piece, emotionally, for the first movie. Now, I’ve stopped saying never for anything because there are a lot of new characters that get introduced and we’ve broadened the universe for this movie. And again, I’m very used to seeing that world continue to open up from theToy Story movies, so I’ve learned to just say, to my knowledge, I think everything that was born of the first movie is wrapped up. But we’ll see. With any of the other sequels, we strive to try and make it seem like it was inevitable, like it was meant to be, that all these extended stories and journeys with these characters were part of the whole canon. And that's really hard, but it's so satisfying for me when I’m experiencing that, whether it's a great second season of a TV show or another book in a series. It's a small club when it's done successfully. Regardless of how much people may vocalize that they don’t enjoy or wish that there weren’t extensions, sometimes it's really nice to go back and spend more time with these characters if they evolve, if they grow, if they expand. So that, I’m very happy with. I feel like it was just as hard, if not harder, onFinding Dory to get it to feel inevitable and preordained, and that it was always of the larger piece."[6]
In May 2024, Pixar CCOPete Docter suggested that the studio was considering making a third installment in theFinding Nemo franchise. He stated "Where else have we not gone in the ocean? The ocean's a big place. I think there's a lot of opportunity there. We're kind of fishing around."[7] In July 2024, while in the middle of her final tour entitled "Ellen's Last Stand...Up", DeGeneres answered in a Q&A session that herNetflix special later that year would be her last act in show business. When asked if she would reprise the role of Dory again, DeGeneres responded "No, I’m going bye-bye, remember."[8]
Finding Nemo is the second highest-grossingfilm of 2003, behindThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.[11] It was the highest-grossing Pixar film, up until 2010 whenToy Story 3 surpassed it.[12]Finding Dory is thethird-highest-grossing film of 2016, behindCivil War andRogue One.[13]
Finding Nemo is the10th highest-grossing animated franchise.[14]
| Film | Release date | Revenue | Rank | Budget | ||||
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| Finding Nemo[15] | May 30, 2003 | $380,843,261 | $559,492,275 | $940,335,536 | #26 #55(A) | #36 | $99,000,000 | |
| Original release | May 30, 2003 | $339,714,978[15] | $531,304,279[16] | $871,019,257 | $94,000,000[15] | |||
| 3-D re-release | September 14, 2012 | $41,128,283[17] | $28,187,996[17] | $69,316,279 | $5,000,000[18] | |||
| Finding Dory[19] | June 17, 2016 | $486,295,561 | $541,068,765 | $1,027,364,326 | #7 #71(A) | #22 | $200,000,000 | |
| Total | $867,138,822 | $1,100,561,040 | $1,967,699,862 | $299,000,000 | ||||
| List indicator (A) indicates the adjusted totals based on current ticket prices (calculated byBox Office Mojo). | ||||||||
| Film | Critical | Public | ||
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| Finding Nemo | 99% (266 reviews)[20] | 90 (38 reviews)[21] | A+[22] | |
| Finding Dory | 94% (339 reviews)[23] | 77 (48 reviews)[24] | A[25] | |
Both films received universal acclaim, with the first film winning theAcademy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was a financial blockbuster as it grossed over $921 million worldwide. It is the best-selling DVD of all time, with over 40 million copies sold as of 2006[26] and is the second highest grossing G-rated movie of all time. In 2008, theAmerican Film Institute named it the 10th greatest American Animated film ever made during their10 Top 10.[27] It also won the award for best Animated Film at the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards, theNational Board of Review Awards, theOnline Film Critics Society Awards, and theToronto Film Critics Association Awards.
This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in the franchise.
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| Finding Nemo | Finding Dory | Exploring the Reef with Jean-Michel Cousteau | Marine Life Interviews | Pixar Popcorn | Lego Pixar: Bricktoons | ||
| Marlin | Albert Brooks | Jess Harnell | |||||
| Dory | Ellen DeGeneres | Ellen DeGeneres Sloane MurrayY Lucia GeddesY | Ellen DeGeneres | Jennifer Hale | |||
| Nemo | Alexander Gould | Hayden Rolence | Alexander Gould | Pressly James Crosby | |||
| Gill | Willem Dafoe | ||||||
| Bloat | Brad Garrett | ||||||
| Peach | Allison Janney | ||||||
| Gurgle | Austin Pendleton | ||||||
| Bubbles | Stephen Root | ||||||
| Deb | Vicki Lewis | ||||||
| Jacques | Joe Ranft | Jerome Ranft | |||||
| Crush | Andrew Stanton | ||||||
| Squirt | Nicholas Bird | Bennett Dammann | Lincoln Peters | ||||
| Mr. Ray | Bob Peterson | Bob Peterson | |||||
| Bruce | Barry Humphries | Deleted scene | |||||
| Darla Sherman | LuLu Ebeling | Photograph | |||||
| Tad | Jordy Ranft | Characters are mute | |||||
| Sheldon | Erik Per Sullivan | Henry Witcher | |||||
| Pearl | Erica Beck | ||||||
| Anchor | Eric Bana | ||||||
| Chum | Bruce Spence | ||||||
| Philip Sherman | Bill Hunter | ||||||
| Nigel | Geoffrey Rush | ||||||
| Coral | Elizabeth Perkins | ||||||
| School of Moonfish | John Ratzenberger | ||||||
| Chicken Fish | Katherine Ringgold | ||||||
| Hank | Ed O'Neill | Ed O'Neill | |||||
| Destiny | Kaitlin Olson | Kaitlin Olson | |||||
| Bailey | Ty Burrell | Ty Burrell | |||||
| Jenny | Diane Keaton | ||||||
| Charlie | Eugene Levy | ||||||
| Fluke | Idris Elba | Idris Elba | |||||
| Rudder | Dominic West | Dominic West | |||||
| Stan | Bill Hader | ||||||
| Inez | Kate McKinnon | ||||||
| Gerald | Torbin Xan Bullock | ||||||
| Becky | |||||||
| Bill | John Ratzenberger | ||||||
| Jean-Michel Cousteau | Himself | ||||||
Finding Nemo was released in 2003 byTHQ. The goal in the game is to complete different levels under the roles of film protagonists Nemo, Marlin or Dory. It includes cutscenes from the movie and each clip is based on a level. For example, Marlin and Dory hopping through a batch of jellyfish.
The game received mixed reviews. It received 2/5 stars onGameSpy,[29][30][31][32] 6.2/10 points onGameSpot[33][34][35] andIGN gave it 7.0/10 and 6.0/10 on itsPS2 andXbox, andGameCube platforms, respectively.[36][37]
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In 2007,Disney Interactive Studios releasedDisney Friends. It is a video game based on variousDisney films. The game features charactersStitch fromLilo & Stitch,Dory fromFinding Nemo,Pooh fromWinnie the Pooh, andSimba fromThe Lion King.
Kinect: Disneyland Adventures is a video game released in 2011 byFrontier Developments. The game is based in variousDisneyland attractions. It was released onKinect forXbox 360. Characters fromFinding Nemo appear as part of a minigame based onFinding Nemo Submarine Voyage.
Nemo's Reef was a mobile game available from December 20, 2012 to June 30, 2017 byDisney Mobile. The game is a casual reef building which features characters fromFinding Nemo. It was released onAndroid andiOS devices.
Disney Infinity was a video game series developed byAvalanche Software that ran from 2013 to 2016. Elements fromFinding Nemo appeared throughout all three games in the series, with power discs based on the film released forthe first game, and a playset based onFinding Dory along with Dory and Nemo figures released for the console versions ofDisney Infinity 3.0 in June 2016. The aforementioned playset and figures were the last new content released for the series, which was cancelled by Disney in May 2016.
Kinect Rush: A Disney•Pixar Adventure is a video game developed byAsobo Studio originally released in 2012 for Xbox 360. On October 31, 2017, a remastered release without the Kinect branding titledRush: A Disney•Pixar Adventure was released forXbox One andMicrosoft Windows10. The remastered version adds a world based onFinding Dory alongside the original release's worlds.
During a limited time Event focused on the franchise, under the name "Finding Marlin", theworld builder gameDisney Magic Kingdoms included Nemo, Marlin, Dory, Crush, Squirt, Bruce and Hank as playable characters, along with the attractionsCrush's Coaster,Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, andThe Seas with Nemo and Friends.[39] Bailey and Destiny were also included as playable characters in a later update of the game.[40] In the game the characters are involved in new storylines that serve as a continuation of the events in the films.
Finding Nemo – The Musical is a 40-minute show (performed five times daily), which opened on January 24, 2007 at the Theater in the Wild at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida. It is a musical adaption of the film with new songs written by Tony Award-winning Avenue Q composerRobert Lopez and his wife,Kristen Anderson-Lopez. It would "combine puppets, dancers, acrobats and animated backdrops".[41]
In the PBS KIDS ShowFetch! With Ruff Ruffman, Crush the sea turtle appeared as a guest star in the Season 5 episode, "The Ol' Shell Game", voiced again byAndrew Stanton.
In August 2016,Egmont Publishing launched a magazine, titledFinding Dory.[42]
Finding Nemo is thesoundtrack album of thefilm of the same name.Finding Dory is thesoundtrack album of thefilm of the same name. The soundtracks were scored byThomas Newman.
The score was nominated for the76th Academy Awardsfor Best Original Score but lost againstThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.[43][44] It received 5/5 stars from the Film Score Reviews[45] and 3.5/5 stars fromSoundtrack.net.[46]
| Film | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Executive Producer | Composer | Editor(s) |
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| Finding Nemo | Andrew Stanton Co-directed by:Lee Unkrich | Original Story by: Andrew Stanton Screenplay by: Andrew Stanton,Bob Peterson andDavid Reynolds | Graham Walters | John Lasseter | Thomas Newman | David Ian Salter |
| Finding Dory | Andrew Stanton Co-directed by:Angus MacLane | Original Story by: Andrew Stanton Screenplay by: Andrew Stanton and Victoria Strouse | Lindsey Collins | Axel Geddes |
It took six years for a toon to overtake Pixar and Disney's "Finding Nemo," which grossed $524.9 million internationally in its 2002 release.
The studio said it spent under $5 million to convert the film to 3-D.
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