Early Man (film)

Early Man is a 2018 animated sports comedy film directed by Nick Park, the creator of Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, and Shaun the Sheep, written by Mark Burton and James Higginson, and starring the voices of Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, and Timothy Spall. The film follows a tribe of primitive Stone Age valley dwellers who have to defend their land from bronze-equipped invaders in a football match. The film premiered on 20 January 2018 at the BFI Southbank cinema.

Early Man
British theatrical release poster
Directed byNick Park
Screenplay by
  • Mark Burton
  • James Higginson
Story by
  • Mark Burton
  • Nick Park
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDave Alex Riddett
Edited bySim Evan-Jones
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byStudioCanal
Release dates
  • 20 January 2018 (2018-01-20) (BFI Southbank)
  • 26 January 2018 (2018-01-26) (United Kingdom)
  • 16 February 2018 (2018-02-16) (United States)
Running time
87 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
France
LanguageEnglish
Budget$50 million
Box office$54.6 million

Released theatrically on 26 January 2018 (in the UK), the film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the visuals and humor, although it was considered inferior to previous Aardman works. However, it was a box-office bomb, grossing just $54 million against a budget of $50 million, making it the lowest-grossing Aardman film since Flushed Away. It was also the final Aardman film to be released theatrically in the United States, as Netflix acquired streaming rights to further Aardman films in late 2019.

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