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Budget. $55 million [3] Box office. $346.1 million [1] Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English colonial settlers from the Virginia Company. The film romanticizes Pocahontas's encounter with John Smith and her legendary saving of his life.
- $346.1 million
- Jim Pentecost
- $55 million
- Alan Menken
Jun 23, 1995 · Pocahontas: Directed by Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg. With Joe Baker, Christian Bale, Irene Bedard, Billy Connolly. An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia.
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In 1607 England, a ship carrying British settlers sails for North America on behalf of the Virginia Company in search of gold and other material riches. Among those on board are Captain John Smith (Mel Gibson) and Governor Ratcliffe (David Ogden Stiers). A storm erupts, and Smith saves the life of an inexperienced young settler named Thomaswhen he ...
Irene Bedard - PocahontasMel Gibson - John SmithDavid Ogden Stiers - Governor Ratcliffe/WigginsJohn Kassir - MeekoDevelopment
Following the release of The Rescuers Down Under, director Mike Gabriel was eager to collaborate on a vastly different follow-up project with veteran Disney story artist and character designer Joe Grant. They first partnered on an adaptation of Swan Lake for four months with Grant typing up ideas, making small drawings, and then departing the studio with Gabriel staying behind to draw his visualizations. "We developed the story and plot for Swan Lake into written form, and Joe said this is ex...
Writing
In January 1993, Carl Binder joined the project, having previous expertise as a television writer on popular sitcoms such as Punky Brewster and television series such as War of the Worlds, Friday the 13th: The Series, and Top Cops. Four months later, Susannah Grant (no relation to Joe Grant) and Philip LaZebnik joined the writing team. Grant herself was selected by Disney as a screenwriter on Pocahontas after winning the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting awarded by the Academy of Motion Pi...
Voice casting
Throughout most of the production, the cast members performed their dialogue in separate recording sessions. In September 1992, Disney began casting actors for Pocahontas telling talent agents that it's particularly interested in Native American actors for the project. For the role of Pocahontas, Broadway actress-singer Judy Kuhn was hired to provide the singing voice for the titular character before Irene Bedard was cast. Kuhn explained, "They said, 'You are going to do the dialogue unless w...
"The Virginia Company" - Chorus"Ship At Sea" (Score)"The Virginia Company (Reprise)" - Mel Gibson& Chorus"Steady As The Beating Drum(Main Title)" - ChorusMarketing
To replicate the promotional buzz of The Lion King, the four-minute musical number, "Colors of the Wind", was released in November 1994, accompanying a theatrical re-release of The Lion King. On February 3, 1995, Disney began its promotional marketing campaign starting in San Diego, California launching a nationwide 18-week tour of fashion malls located within twenty-five cities where a mall exhibit named Pocahontas Animation Discovery Adventure was created to help promote the release. There,...
Box office
Timed with Pocahontas' 400th birthday, Pocahontas had a limited release in North America on June 16, 1995, playing in only six selected theaters. The film grossed $2.7 million during its first weekend, standing at the eighth place in the box office ranking. It beat the record set by The Lion King the previous year for the highest-grossing opening weekend on fewer than 50 screens, a record that has not been beaten. The wide release followed on June 23, 1995, in 2,596 screens. Studio estimates...
Reception
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a "rotten" rating of 54% based on reviews from 57 critics and reports a rating average of 6.00 out of 10. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 58 based on 23 reviews. The film received mostly positive reviews from audiences, critics generally tended to fault the film for being derivative of earlier Disney films. The songs in the movie were also...
Pocahontas, together with the second film, were re-released in a combo pack on Disney Blu-ray and DVD.
This was the fifth and last Disney feature during the Renaissance to win the Academy Award for both Best Original Score and Best Original Song. The previous films were The Little Mermaid, Beauty an...The United Kingdom flag used is historically incorrect since the movie takes place in 1607, and the current flag would not be created until 1801 with the unification of Great Britain and Ireland.Gordon Tootoosis later portrayed Powhatan in another Pocahontas movie called "Pocahontas: the Legend".Pocahontas is the only Disney Renaissance movie to have a "Rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.All the characters who were shot should have started to bleed but the creators preferred to make the film so otherwise it would be very dark.
Pocahontas (1995 film) on WikipediaPocahontas (film) on IMDbPocahontas (film) on Disney.comJun 16, 1995 · voiced by John Kassir. Chief Powhatan. voiced by Russell Means and 30 others. Thomas. voiced by Christian Bale and 22 others. Grandmother Willow. voiced by Linda Hunt and 31 others. Percy. voiced by Danny Mann.
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James Apaumut Fall. Kocoum (voice) Gordon Tootoosis. Kekata (voice) Jim Cummings. Powhatan / Kekata (singing voice) (uncredited) Charlie Adler. Various (voice) (uncredited) Debi Derryberry.
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