Monster House (film)

Monster House
Monster House
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Gil Kenan
Screenplay by	Dan Harmon; Rob Schrab; Pamela Pettler;
Story by	Dan Harmon; Rob Schrab;
Produced by	Jack Rapke; Steve Starkey;
Starring	Steve Buscemi; Nick Cannon; Maggie Gyllenhaal; Kevin James; Jason Lee; Catherine O'Hara; Kathleen Turner; Fred Willard;
Cinematography	Xavier Perez Grobet
Edited by	Fabienne Rawley; Adam P. Scott;
Music by	Douglas Pipes
Production; companies	Columbia Pictures; Relativity Media; ImageMovers; Amblin Entertainment;
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release dates	June 30, 2006 (Lowe's Motor Speedway); July 21, 2006 (United States);
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$75 million
Box office	$141.9 million

Monster House is a 2006 American animated supernatural horror comedy film^[3] directed by Gil Kenan in his directorial debut, from a screenplay written by Pamela Pettler and the writing team of Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab. The plot revolves around a neighborhood being terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween. The film features the voices of Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin James, Nick Cannon, Jason Lee, Fred Willard, Jon Heder, Catherine O'Hara, and Kathleen Turner.

Produced by Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, and executive producers Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, the human characters were animated using motion-capture animation, which was previously utilized in Zemeckis' The Polar Express (2004). It was also Sony's first computer-animated film produced by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Relativity's first animated film.^[4]

Monster House was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Releasing on July 21, 2006. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $142 million worldwide against a $75 million budget. It received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, but lost to Happy Feet and Cars, respectively.

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