Where to watch Open Season (2006)

Trivia & production notes

• The story originated from cartoonist Steve Moore, who created the comic strip In the Bleachers, and was submitted to Sony in June 2002.
• Open Season was Sony Pictures Animation's first full-length CGI-animated film, announced in February 2004.
• The film's setting was inspired by Idaho towns Sun Valley and McCall, as well as the Sawtooth National Forest.
• Director Jill Culton selected Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher for the lead roles by blindly listening to audition tapes without knowing their identities.
• Lawrence and Kutcher never met each other during production and only encountered each other at the film's premiere.
• Animators used a custom digital tool called shapers that enabled them to distort character models with effects like squash, stretch, and smears typical of hand-drawn animation.
• Ramin Djawadi composed the film's score while Paul Westerberg, formerly of The Replacements, wrote and performed several original songs.
• A 10-inch vinyl edition of the soundtrack included three songs absent from the CD version, including Reyli's Latin American Spanish version of a track.
• The film earned six Annie Award nominations, including Best Animated Feature, though it lost in that category to Cars.
• Open Season grossed $200.8 million worldwide, with $88.6 million from the United States and $112.2 million from international markets.

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