Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
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| Directed by | Patrick Gilmore Tim Johnson |
| Produced by | Mireille Soria Jeffrey Katzenberg |
| Written by | John Logan |
| Based on | Sinbad the Sailor[1] Damon and Pythias' |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| Edited by | Tom Finan |
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| Distributed by | DreamWorks Pictures[a][3] |
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Running time | 85 minutes[4] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $60 million[3] |
| Box office | $80 million[3] |
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (or simply Sinbad) is a 2003 American animated fantasy adventure movie directed by Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore and written by John Logan, featuring the character Sinbad. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures, it stars the voices of Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joseph Fiennes, and Dennis Haysbert[5]. The film tells the story of Sinbad (voiced by Pitt), a pirate who travels the sea with his dog and his loyal crew, alongside Marina (voiced by Zeta-Jones), the fiancée of his childhood friend Prince Proteus (voiced by Fiennes), to recover the stolen Book of Peace from Eris (voiced by Pfeiffer) to save Proteus from approving Sinbad's death sentence.
Development began when Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio developed the story of Sinbad in the vein of the story of Damon and Pythias before settling on a love triangle. The project was canceled in 1993, though Jeffrey Katzenberg decided to restart some ideas when he left the Walt Disney Company and co-founded DreamWorks Pictures in 1994 during the production of The Prince of Egypt (1998). Johnson, who attempted to direct his follow-up CGI animated film Tusker following Antz (1998), before eventually scrapped the project, was recruited to direct Sinbad and teamed with Gilmore. Like the studio's previous film, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), the film combines traditional animation and computer animation. The film blends elements from One Thousand and One Nights and classical mythology. The film's traditional animation and its final line services were provided by Stardust Pictures and Bardel Entertainment, with PDI/DreamWorks handling its computer animation technology and CG character animation. The score for the film was composed by Harry Gregson-Williams.
Sinbad was released on July 2, 2003, and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the animation, action sequences, and voice performances, but criticized the storyline, polarizing CGI, and the film's departure from its Arabic origin. Grossing $80 million on a $60 million budget, Sinbad was considered by analysts to be a box-office failure,[6] causing DreamWorks to suffer a $125 million loss on a string of films. The film is also listed as one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time, which nearly bankrupted the studio. To date, this soon became the final DreamWorks Animation film to use traditional animation as the studio abandoned and discontinued it in favor of computer animation.[7] However, DreamWorks brought 2D animation back for the 5-minute short film Bird Karma in 2018. Until the releases of Rise of the Guardians and Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken in 2012 and 2023 respectively, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas was DreamWorks Animation's biggest box office failure.[5][8]
Cast
- Brad Pitt as Sinbad the Sailor
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Marina
- Joseph Fiennes as Proteus
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Eris
- Dennis Haysbert as Kale
- Additional Voices, Jack Angel, Jim Cummings, Stephen Apostolina, Kirk Baily, Bob Bergen, Gregg Berger, Rodger Bumpass, David Cowgill, Brian Cummings, Jim Cummings, Carlos Ferro, Bill Farmer, Richard Epcar, Elisa Gabrielli, Eileen Galindo, Nicholas Guest, Lex Lang,Jim Lau, Ann Mathias, Neil Kaplan, Tom Kenny, Phil LaMarr, Carole Jeghers, Danny Mann, Randall Montgomery, Bob Papenbrook, Dina Morrone, Jonathan Nichols, Phil Proctor, Tony Oliver, Bobbi Page, Michelle Ruff, Juan Pope, Al Rodrigo, Alan Shearman, Michael Sorich, Skip Stellrecht, Marcelo Tubert, Simon Wells, Frank Welker, Conrad Vernon, Claudette Wells.
References
- ↑ Clarke, Seán (July 23, 2003). Why Hollywood drew a veil over Sinbad's Arab roots. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/jul/23/iraq.world. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
- ↑ Cheney, Alexandra (July 29, 2014). "DreamWorks Animation Q2 Earnings Fall Short of Estimates, SEC Investigation Revealed". Variety. https://variety.com/2014/biz/news/dreamworks-animation-q2-earnings-fall-short-of-estimates-1201271262/. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ↑ 'Sinbad Legend Of The Seven Seas (U) (in en) (June 18, 2003)British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved June 21, 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Aditya Vyas (June 28, 2020). Brad Pitt's 'Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas' Is The Last Hand-drawn Dreamworks Film. Republic World. https://www.republicworld.com/entertainment-news/hollywood-news/brad-pitts-sinbad-legend-of-the-seven-seas.html. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
- ↑ Schaefer, Sandy (August 26, 2021). How DreamWorks' Most Forgettable Film Destroyed Almost Two Decades of Movies. https://www.cbr.com/dreamworks-forgettable-sinbad-movie-destroyed-animation/. Retrieved February 11, 2024. "DreamWorks Animation's Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas was an infamous box office bomb that led the studio to ditch traditional animation".
- ↑ Eller, Claudia; Hofmeister, Sallie (December 17, 2005). DreamWorks Sale Sounds Wake-Up Call for Indie Films. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-17-fi-dreamworks17-story.html. Retrieved September 11, 2013. "The company nearly went bankrupt twice, Geffen said during a panel discussion in New York this year, adding that when the animated film "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" flopped in 2003, the resulting $125-million loss nearly sank his company.".
- ↑ Elvis Mitchell (July 2, 2003). "FILM REVIEW; A Selfish Adventurer With a Selfless Mission". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/02/movies/film-review-a-selfish-adventurer-with-a-selfless-mission.html?searchResultPosition=2. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
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