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Jennifer Ventimilia (née Jeffrey Robert Ventimilia le 20 mai 1966) est une productrice et scénariste américaine. Elle est principalement connue pour son travail sur les séries Murphy Brown, Profession : critique et That '70s Show. La plupart du temps elle travaille avec Joshua Sternin.
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Jennifer Ventimilia (previously Jeffrey Ventimilia [1] and also known as J.R. Ventimilia) is an American screenwriter. Ventimilia co-wrote The Simpsons episode "Simpson Tide" (with Joshua Sternin) [2] and the teleplay of the episode "'Round Springfield", based on a story idea by Al Jean and Mike Reiss. [3] Other credits include Murphy Brown ...
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In Moose Lake, Minnesota, a crate containing an orphaned male Spix's macaw hatchling that was smuggled out of Brazil falls from a truck and is found by Linda Gunderson, who names him Blu. Fifteen years later, Blu is highly domesticated and unable to fly, and is frequently ridiculed by the Canada geese that come by Linda's bookstore. Ornithologist T...
Jesse Eisenberg as Blu, a male Spix's macawwho was born in Rio de Janeiro but raised in Moose Lake, Minnesota, after he was smuggled.will.i.am as Pedro, a red-crested cardinalwho is Nico's best friend.Jamie Foxx as Nico, a yellow canary who is Pedro's best friend, loves to samba, and whose bottle-cap hat functions as a pandeiro.Saldanha first had the idea for the film in 2005, involving a penguin being washed up on the beaches of Ipanema; it was changed to the current story after he learned of Happy Feet and Surf's Up (two other films involving penguins) being produced. He pitched the idea to Chris Wedge at Blue Sky in 2006. Saldanha showed the animators maps and books wi...
Rio (Music from the Motion Picture) was released by Interscope Records on April 5, 2011, for digital download and followed by a physical release on April 12, 2011. The album was produced by the film's score composer John Powell (who regularly worked on most of Blue Sky's films) and Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes, and features performances from th...
The world premiere of Rio took place on March 22, 2011, at a Cinépolis theater in Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro. The United States premiere was on April 10, 2011, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, and was released throughout the country five days later. Since May 2009, it had been scheduled to be released in the United States on April ...
Box office
Rio made $143.6 million in North America, along with $341 million in other territories for a total of $484.6 million worldwide, becoming the 13th highest-grossing film of 2011 and the 107th highest-grossing film of all time.It was the first film of 2011 to pass the $400-million mark.
Critical response
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 72% approval rating based on 152 reviews, with an average score of 6.4/10. The website's consensus is: "This straightforward movie hits great heights thanks to its colorful visual palette, catchy music, and funny vocal performances." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to 29 reviews from mainstream critics, the film has an average score of 63 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by...
Sequel
A sequel, titled Rio 2, was released on April 11, 2014. Carlos Saldanha, the creator and director of the first film, returned as director. All the main cast, including Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jemaine Clement, Jamie Foxx, will.i.am, Tracy Morgan, George Lopez, Jake T. Austin, Leslie Mann, and Rodrigo Santoro, reprised their roles. New cast includes Andy García, Bruno Mars, Kristin Chenoweth, Rita Moreno, Amandla Stenberg, Rachel Crow, Pierce Gagnon, and Natalie Morales. The sequel foll...
Third film
Director Carlos Saldanha had kept the possibility for Rio 3open. In an April 2014 interview, he stated, "Of course, I have a lot of stories to tell, so we're [starting to] prepare for it." In a media kit released by Disney for the 2022 film The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, it is mentioned that a third Riomovie is in development, with Ray DeLaurentis writing the screenplay.
Spin-off
In October 2019, after the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, various sources reported that a spin-off centered on Nico and Pedro was in early development for Disney+, however this has never been publicly confirmed by Disney.The shut down of Blue Sky Studios in 2021 left the fate of this spin-off uncertain.
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Jennifer Ventimilia. Writer: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Jennifer Ventimilia was born on 20 May 1966 in Somerville, New Jersey, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Surviving Christmas (2004) and Rio (2011).
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The Mask; Elf; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
JEFFREY VENTIMILIA & JOSHUA STERNIN (Screenplay) make their feature film writing debuts on “Surviving Christmas,” though both have had long and illustrious careers in television. Friends since Junior High, Ventimilia and Sternin began their professional partnership in animation, writing for the short-lived but well-regarded sitcom “The ...
Jennifer R. Ventimilia, previously known and credited as Jeffrey Ventimilia (born May 20, 1966) is an American television writer. She served as a writer and story editor for The Simpsons. She also worked on The Critic.
