Carnivale (film)

Carnivale is a 1999 French-Irish animated film directed by Deane Taylor.

Carnivale
Directed byDeane Taylor
Screenplay byGreg Haddrick
Isabeau Merle
Story byDeane Taylor
Produced byRussell Boland
Gerry Shirren
Starring
Edited byGerry Gogan
Music byStephen McKeon
Production
companies
Foundry Film Partners[1]
TerraGlyph Animation[2]
Millimages
Distributed byBAC Films[3]
Release date
  • September 2, 2000 (2000-09-02) (France)
[3]
Running time
75 minutes
CountriesIreland
Spain[4]
France [5]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$12 million[1]

Premise

Four children and their cat find a magic ticket that admits them entry into a magical and mysterious amusement park that at first seems inviting, but grows more sinister once they try to leave.

Cast

Production

The film marked the directorial debut of Deane Taylor who had previously worked as an art director on The Nightmare Before Christmas.[4] Production on the film began in June 1997 until it was completed in February 1999.[4] Producer Gerry Shirren had previously worked as a producer on several Don Bluth films.[6]

Cancelled video game

In May 1999, it was announced Vatical Entertainment and Terraglyph Interactive Studios had been working on a tie-in video game based on the film to be released on Nintendo 64, Sony PlayStation, and Game Boy Color with a playable demo set for that year's E3.[7] After the film failed to find widespread distribution, Vatical ultimately decided to cancel the game as TerraGlyph was beset by development issues that culminated with the company laying off a majority of their workforce leaving the game only 50-60% complete.[8]

References
  1. "Greenhunt, Ein bridge $ and future foreign sales". Variety. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
  2. "Animation Studios". Terraglyph. 2000-06-20. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
  3. "Rends-moi la clé ! de Gérard Pirès (1981) - Unifrance". en.unifrance.org.
  4. "Carnivale (1999)". TCM. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
  5. "Carnivale Production (french language)". Archived from the original on 2001-02-02.
  6. "CARNIVALE". stephenmckeon.com.
  7. "STEP RIGHT UP FOR THE PREMIERE OF CARNIVALÉ! VATICAL AND TERRAGLYPH UNVEIL BIG TOP FUN AT E3". vatical.com. May 8, 1999. Archived from the original on Jan 13, 2001. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
  8. IGN, Staff (2001-02-08). "Two More Bite the Dust". IGN. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
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