Finding Nemo

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Finding Nemo

Theatrical release poster

Directed by

Andrew Stanton

Produced by

Graham Walters

Screenplay by

Andrew Stanton
Bob Peterson
David Reynolds

Story by

Andrew Stanton

Starring

Albert Brooks
Ellen DeGeneres

Alexander Gould
Willem Dafoe
Music by

Thomas Newman

Cinematography

Sharon Calahan
Jeremy Lasky

Edited by

David Ian Salter

Production
company

Walt Disney Pictures

Pixar Animation Studios

Distributed by

Buena Vista Pictures

Release dates
May 30, 2003
Running time

100 minutes

Country

United States

Language

English

Budget

$94 million[1]

Box office

$936.7 million[1]

Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure

film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
Written and directed by Andrew Stanton. the film stars the voices of Albert
Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, and Willem Dafoe. It tells the story of
the overprotective clownfish named Marlin who, along with aregal tang named Dory,
searches for his abducted son Nemo all the way to Sydney Harbour. Along the way,
Marlin learns to take risks and let Nemo take care of himself.
Originally released on May 30, 2003, the film was eventually re-released in 3D on
September 14, 2012, and it was released on Blu-ray on December 4, 2012. The film
received universal acclaim, won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and
was nominated in three more categories including Best Original Screenplay. It was
the second highest-grossing film of 2003, earning a total of $936 million worldwide.
[1]
Finding Nemo is the best-selling DVD of all time, with over 40 million copies sold
as of 2006,[2] and was the highest-grossing G-rated film of all time before Pixar's
own Toy Story 3 overtook it. It is the 31st highest-grossing film of all time, as well as
the 5th highest-grossing animated film. In 2008, the American Film Institute named it
the 10th greatest animated film ever made as part of their 10 Top 10 lists.
[3]
A sequel, Finding Dory, is in production, set to be released on June 17, 2016. [4]
Contents

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1Plot

2Voice cast

3Production

4Video game

5Reception
o 5.1Critical response
o 5.2Box office

5.2.13D re-release

o 5.3Accolades
o 5.4Environmental concerns and consequences

6Home media

7Soundtrack

8Theme park attractions

9Sequel

10See also

11References

12External links

Plot[edit]
Two ocellaris clownfish, Marlin and his wife Coral, admire their new home in
the Great Barrier Reef and their clutch of eggs when abarracuda attacks, knocking
Marlin unconscious. He wakes up to find out that Coral and all but one of the eggs
have been eaten by the barracuda. Marlin names this last egg Nemo, a name that
Coral liked.

Nemo develops a smaller right fin as a result of damage to his egg during the attack,
which limits his swimming ability. Worried about Nemo's safety, Marlin embarrasses
Nemo during a school field trip. Nemo sneaks away from the reef and is captured by
scuba divers. As the boat departs, a diver accidentally knocks his diving
mask overboard. While attempting to save Nemo, Marlin meets Dory, a goodhearted and optimistic regal blue tang with short-term memory loss. Marlin and Dory
meet three sharks Bruce, Anchor and Chum who claim to be vegetarians. Marlin
discovers the diver's mask and notices an address written on it. When he argues
with Dory and accidentally gives her a nosebleed, the blood scent causes Bruce to
enter an uncontrollable feeding frenzy. The pair escape from Bruce but the mask
falls into a trench in the deep sea.
During a hazardous struggle with an anglerfish in the trench, Dory sees the diving
mask and reads the address located in Sydney, Australia. The pair swims on,
receiving directions to Sydney from a school of moonfish. Marlin and Dory encounter
a bloom of jellyfish that nearly kills them. Marlin loses consciousness and wakes up
on a sea turtlenamed Crush, who takes Marlin and Dory on the East Australian
Current. Marlin tells the details of his long journey with a group of sea turtles, and his
story is spread across the ocean. He also sees how Crush gets on well with his son
Squirt.
Meanwhile, Nemo is placed in a fish tank in the office of a dentist named Phillip
Sherman on Sydney Harbour. He meets aquarium fish called the Tank Gang, led by
a moorish idolnamed Gill, who has a broken fin. The fish learn that Nemo is to be
given to Sherman's niece, Darla, who killed a fish by constantly shaking its bag. Gill
then reveals his plan to escape, jamming the tank's filter, forcing the dentist to
remove the fish to clean it. The fish would be placed in plastic bags, and then they
would roll out the window and into the harbor. After an attempt at the escape goes
wrong, a brown pelican, Nigel, brings news of Marlin's adventure. Inspired by his
father's determination, Nemo successfully jams the filter, but the dentist installs a
new high-tech filter before they can escape.
After leaving the East Australian Current, Marlin and Dory are engulfed by a blue
whale. Inside the whale's mouth, Dory communicates with the whale, which carries
them to Port Jackson and expels them through his blowhole. They meet Nigel, who
recognizes Marlin from the stories he has heard, and he takes them to Sherman's
office. Darla has just arrived and the dentist is handing Nemo to her. Nemo plays
dead to save himself as Nigel arrives. Marlin sees Nemo and believes he is dead
before Nigel is violently thrown out. In despair, Marlin leaves Dory and begins to
swim home. Gill then helps Nemo escape into a drain that leads to the ocean. Dory
loses her memory and becomes confused, and meets Nemo, who reached the
ocean. Eventually, Dory's memory returns after she reads the word "Sydney" on a
drainpipe. She directs Nemo to Marlin and they reunite, but then Dory is caught in a
fishing net with a school of grouper. Nemo enters the net and orders the group to
swim downward to break the net, enabling them to escape. After returning home,

Nemo leaves for school, with Crush's son Squirt, and Marlin, no longer
overprotective, proudly watches Nemo swim away with Dory at his side.
At the dentist's office, the high-tech filter breaks down and the Tank Gang escapes
into the harbor, belatedly realizing they are still confined in plastic bags.

Voice cast[edit]
Albert Brooks as Marlin, an ill-tempered clownfish and
Nemo's father.
Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, an energetic pacific regal blue
tang who suffers from short-term memory loss
Alexander Gould as Nemo, a young clownfish and
Marlin's son
Willem Dafoe as Gill, a moorish idol who wants to help
Nemo get back home to his father
Brad Garrett as Bloat, a pufferfish
Allison Janney as Peach, a pink starfish
Austin Pendleton as Gurgle, a royal gramma
Stephen Root as Bubbles, a yellow tang fish who likes
bubbles
Vicki Lewis as Deb (and her sister reflection, "Flo"),
a four-striped damselfish
Joe Ranft as Jacques, a cleaner shrimp
Geoffrey Rush as Nigel, an Australian pelican
John Ratzenberger as the school of moonfish, a group of
fish who help Marlin and Dory find Nemo
Andrew Stanton as Crush, a 150-year old sea turtle and
a New England lobster.

 Bob Peterson as Mr. Ray, a blue and white spotted eagle

ray and John Howard, thePrime Minister of Australia
Barry Humphries as Bruce, a great white shark
Eric Bana as Anchor, a hammerhead shark
Bruce Spence as Chum, a mako shark
Erik Per Sullivan as Sheldon, a seahorse that is one of
Nemo's friends.
Bill Hunter as Dr. Philip Sherman, a dentist
Elizabeth Perkins as Coral, Marlin's deceased wife
Rove McManus as a diver
Nicholas Bird as Squirt, Crush's son
Jordy Ranft as Tad, a yellow longnose butterflyfish that is
one of Nemo's friends
Erica Beck as Pearl, a flapjack octopus that is one of
Nemo's friends
LuLu Ebeling as Darla
Carlos Alazraqui as Phil, Tad's father.
Jack Angel as Mr. Johansen, a flounder
Bob Bergen as a frightening little green fish that does not
speak
Jennifer Darling as a female bird
Bradley Trevor Greive as albatross
Jess Harnell, Jan Rabson and Andrew Stanton as
additional seagulls
Sherry Lynn as a little fish

 Danny Mann as a big fish

Laura Marano, Vanessa Marano, Daryl Sabara and Evan
Sabara as sea turtle kids
Mickie McGowan as Barbara, Philip's wife
Rove McManus, David Ian Salter and Lee Unkrich as the
crabs
Laraine Newman as a pelican
Phil Proctor as Bob, Sheldon's father.
Jan Rabson as Davey Reynolds, a screaming dental
patient and a flying fish
Katherine Ringgold as Kathy, one of Mr. Ray's students
and gawky schoolfish
Daryl Sabara and Evan Sabara as krill that tries to
escape the whale
Jim Ward as Ted, Pearl's father.

Production[edit]
The inspiration for Nemo sprang from multiple experiences, going back to when
director Andrew Stanton was a child, when he loved going to the dentist to see the
fish tank, assuming that the fish were from the ocean and wanted to go home. [5] In
1992, shortly after his son was born, he and his family took a trip to Six Flags
Discovery Kingdom (which was called Marine World at the time). There, after seeing
the shark tube and various exhibits, he felt that the underwater world could be done
beautifully in computer animation.[6]Later, in 1997, he took his son for a walk in the
park, but realized that he was over protecting him and lost an opportunity to have a
father-son experience that day.[5]
In an interview with National Geographic magazine, he said that the idea for the
characters of Marlin and Nemo came from a photograph of two clownfish peeking
out of ananemone:

It was so arresting. I had no idea what kind of fish they wer

In addition, clownfish are colourful, but do not tend to come out of an anemone
often. For a character who has to go on a dangerous journey, Stanton felt a
clownfish was the perfect type of fish for the character.[5] Pre-production of the film
began in early 1997. Stanton began writing the screenplay during the postproduction of A Bug's Life. As a result,Finding Nemo began production with a
complete screenplay, something that co-director Lee Unkrich called "very unusual
for an animated film".[5] The artists took scuba divinglessons to study the coral reef.[5]

Andrew Stanton co-wrote and directed the film.

The idea for the initiation sequence came from a story conference between Andrew
Stanton and Bob Peterson while they were driving to record the actors. Stanton was
inspired to cast Ellen DeGeneres when he watched an episode of Ellen in which he
saw her "change the subject five times before finishing one sentence". [5] The pelican
character named Gerald (who in the final film ends up swallowing and choking on
Marlin and Dory) was originally a friend of Nigel. They were going to play against
each other with Nigel being neat and fastidious and Gerald being scruffy and sloppy.
The filmmakers could not find an appropriate scene for them that did not slow the
pace of the picture, so Gerald's character was minimized. [5]
Stanton himself provided the voice of Crush the sea turtle. He originally did the voice
for the film's story reel, and assumed they would find an actor later. When Stanton's
performance became popular in test screenings, he decided to keep his
performance in the film. He recorded all his dialogue while lying on a sofa in
Unkrich's office.[5] Crush's son Squirt was voiced by Nicholas Bird, the young son of
fellow Pixar director Brad Bird. According to Stanton, the elder Bird was playing a
tape recording of his young son around the Pixar studios one day. Stanton felt the
voice was "this generation's Thumper" and immediately cast Nicholas.[5]

Megan Mullally was originally going to provide a voice in the film. According to
Mullally, the producers were dissatisfied to learn that the voice of her
character Karen Walker on the television show Will & Grace was not her natural
speaking voice. The producers hired her anyway, and then strongly encouraged her
to use her Karen Walker voice for the role. When Mullally refused, she was
dismissed.[8]
To ensure that the movements of the fish in the film were believable, the animators
took a crash course in fish biology and oceanography. They visited aquariums, went
diving in Hawaii and received in-house lectures from an ichthyologist.[9] As a result,
Pixar's animator for Dory, Gini Cruz Santos, integrated "the fish movement, human
movement, and facial expressions to make them look and feel like real
characters."[10][11]
The film was dedicated to Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator who died
of melanoma in October 2002.[12] Finding Nemo shares many plot elements
with Pierrot the Clownfish, a children's book published in 2002, but conceived in
1995. The author, Franck Le Calvez, sued Disney for infringement of his intellectual
rights. The judge ruled against him, citing the color differences between Pierrot and
Nemo.[13]

Video game[edit]
Main article: Finding Nemo (video game)
A video game based on the film was released in 2003,
for PC, Xbox, PS2, GameCube and Game Boy Advance. The goal of the game is to
complete different levels under the roles of Nemo, Marlin or Dory. It includes
cutscenes from the movie, and each clip is based on a level. It was also the last
Disney/Pixar game developed by Traveller's Tales. Upon release, the game received
mixed reviews.[14][15][16][17][18][19] A Game Boy Advance sequel, titled Finding Nemo: The
Continuing Adventures, was released in 2004.[20]

Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
Finding Nemo received universal acclaim. The review aggregator website Rotten
Tomatoes reported a 99% approval rating, with a rating average of 8.7/10 based on
253 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "Breathtaking animation, talented vocal
work, and a well-written screenplay add up to another Pixar success." [21] Another
review aggregation website Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100
top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 90 out of 100 based on 38
reviews, indicating "universal acclaim."[22]
Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, calling it "one of those rare movies
where I wanted to sit in the front row and let the images wash out to the edges of my
field of vision".[23] Broadway star Nathan Lane, who was the voice of Timon the

meerkat in The Lion King, said Finding Nemo was his favorite animated film.[24] Ed
Park of The Village Voice gave the film a positive review, saying "It's an ocean of
eye candy that tastes fresh even in this ADD-addled era of SpongeBob
SquarePants."[25] Mark Caro of the Chicago Tribune gave the film four out of four
stars, saying "You connect to these sea creatures as you rarely do with humans in
big-screen adventures. The result: a true sunken treasure." [26] Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
of L.A. Weekly gave the film a positive review, saying "As gorgeous a film as
Disney's ever put out, with astonishing qualities of light, movement, surface and
color at the service of the best professional imaginations money can buy." [27] Jeff
Strickler of the Star Tribune gave the film a positive review, saying "Proves that even
when Pixar is not at the top of its game, it still produces better animation than some
of its competitors on their best days." [27] Gene Seymour of Newsday gave the film
three and a half stars out of four, saying "The underwater backdrops take your
breath away. No, really. They're so lifelike, you almost feel like holding your breath
while watching."[27] Rene Rodriguez of the Miami Herald gave the film four out of four
stars, saying "Parental anxiety may not be the kind of stuff children's films are
usually made of, but this perfectly enchanting movie knows how to cater to its kiddie
audience without condescending to them."[28]
Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film three and a half stars out of
five, saying "The best break of all is that Pixar's traditionally untethered imagination
can't be kept under wraps forever, and "Nemo" erupts with sea creatures that
showcase Stanton and company's gift for character and peerless eye for skewering
contemporary culture."[29] Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave the film four
out of five stars, saying "Visual imagination and sophisticated wit raise Finding
Nemo to a level just below the peaks of Pixar's Toy Story movies and Monsters,
Inc.."[30] Terry Lawson of the Detroit Free Press gave the film three out of four stars,
saying "As we now expect from Pixar, even the supporting fish in "Finding Nemo"
are more developed as characters than any human in the Mission:
Impossible movies."[31] Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film three and half stars
out of four, saying "Finding Nemo is an undersea treasure. The most gorgeous of all
the Pixar films which include Toy Story 1 and 2, A Bug's Life andMonsters, Inc.
Nemo treats family audiences to a sweet, resonant story and breathtaking visuals. It
may lack Monsters, Inc.'s clever humor, but kids will identify with the spunky sea fish
Nemo, and adults will relate to Marlin, Nemo's devoted dad." [32] Bruce Westbrook of
the Houston Chronicle gave the film an A-, saying "Finding Nemo lives up to Pixar's
high standards for wildly creative visuals, clever comedy, solid characters and an
involving story."[33] Tom Long of The Detroit News gave the film an A-, saying "A
simple test of humanity: If you don't laugh aloud while watching it, you've got a
battery not a heart."[27]
Lou Lumenick of the New York Post gave the film four out of four stars, saying "A
dazzling, computer-animated fish tale with a funny, touching script and wonderful
voice performances that make it an unqualified treat for all ages." [27] Moira
MacDonald of The Seattle Times gave the film four out of four stars, saying
"Enchanting; written with an effortless blend of sweetness and silliness, and

animated with such rainbow-hued beauty, you may find yourself wanting to freezeframe it."[27] Daphne Gordon of the Toronto Star gave the film four out of five stars,
saying "One of the strongest releases from Disney in years, thanks to the work of
Andrew Stanton, possibly one of the most successful directors you've never heard
of."[27] Ty Burr of The Boston Globe gave the film three and a half stars out of four,
saying "Finding Nemo isn't quite up there with the company's finest work -- there's
finally a sense of formula setting in -- but it's hands down the best family film
since Monsters, Inc.."[27] C.W. Nevius of The San Francisco Chronicle gave the film
four out of four stars, saying "The visuals pop, the fish emote and the ocean comes
alive. That's in the first two minutes. After that, they do some really cool stuff." [34] Ann
Hornaday of The Washington Post gave the film a positive review, saying "Finding
Nemo will engross kids with its absorbing story, brightly drawn characters and lively
action, and grown-ups will be equally entertained by the film's subtle humor and the
sophistication of its visuals."[27] David Ansen of Newsweek gave the film a positive
review, saying "A visual marvel, every frame packed to the gills with clever
details, Finding Nemo is the best big-studio release so far this year."[35]
Richard Corliss of Time gave the film a positive review, saying "Nemo, with its
ravishing underwater fantasia, manages to trump the design glamour of earlier Pixar
films."[36] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, saying "In
this seamless blending of technical brilliance and storytelling verve, the Pixar team
has made something as marvelously soulful and innately, fluidly American as
jazz."[37] Carrie Rickey of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film three out of four
stars, saying "As eye-popping as Nemo's peepers and as eccentric as this little fish
with asymmetrical fins."[27] David Germain of the Associated Press gave the film a
positive review, saying "Finding Nemo is laced with smart humor and clever gags,
and buoyed by another cheery story of mismatched buddies: a pair of fish voiced by
Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres."[38] Anthony Lane of The New Yorker gave the
film a positive review, saying "The latest flood of wizardry from Pixar, whose
productions, from Toy Story onward, have lent an indispensable vigor and wit to the
sagging art of mainstream animation."[39] The 3D re-release prompted a retrospective
on the film nine years after its initial release. Stephen Whitty of the Newark StarLedgerdescribed it as "a genuinely funny and touching film that, in less than a
decade, has established itself as a timeless classic."[40] On the 3D re-release, Lisa
Schwarzbaum ofEntertainment Weekly wrote that its emotional power was
deepened by "the dimensionality of the oceanic deep" where "the spatial mysteries
of watery currents and floating worlds are exactly where 3D explorers were born to
boldly go".[41]

Box office[edit]
Finding Nemo earned $380,843,261 in North America, and $555,900,000 in other
countries, for a worldwide total of $936,743,261. [1] It is the thirtieth highest-grossing
film and the second highest-grossing film of 2003, behind The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King.[42] Worldwide, it was the highest-grossing Pixar film, up until
2010 when Toy Story 3 surpassed it.[43]

In North America, Finding Nemo set an opening weekend record for an animated
feature, making $70,251,710 (first surpassed by Shrek 2) and ended up spending 11
weeks in the top 10 domestically, remaining there until August 14. [44] It became the
highest-grossing animated film in North America ($339.7 million), outside North
America ($528.2 million) and worldwide ($867.9 million), in all three occasions outgrossing The Lion King.[45] In North America, it was surpassed by both Shrek 2 in
2004, and Toy Story 3 in 2010.[46] After the re-release of The Lion King in 2011 and
after Despicable Me 2 and Frozen passed it in 2014, it stands as the fifth highestgrossing animated film in these regions. Outside North America, it stands as the fifth
highest-grossing animated film. Worldwide, it now ranks fourth among animated
films.[47]
The film had impressive box office runs in many international markets. In Japan, its
highest-grossing market after North America, it grossed 11.2 billion ($102.4 million),
becoming the highest-grossing foreign animated film in local currency (yen). [48] It has
only been surpassed by Frozen (12.1 billion).[49] Following in biggest grosses are
the U.K., Ireland and Malta, where it grossed 37.2 million ($67.1 million), France
and the Maghreb region ($64.8 million), Germany ($53.9 million) and Spain ($29.5
million).[50]
3D re-release[edit]
After the success of the 3D re-release of The Lion King, Disney and Pixar rereleased Finding Nemo in 3D on September 14, 2012,[51] with a conversion cost
estimated to be below $5 million.[52] For the opening weekend of its 3D re-release in
North America, Finding Nemo grossed $16.7 million, debuting at the No. 2 spot
behind Resident Evil: Retribution.[53] In total, it earned $41.1 million in the United
States, and $31.0 million outside the U.S.[54]

Accolades[edit]
Main article: List of Pixar awards and nominations: Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo won the Academy Award and Saturn Award for Best Animated Film.
[55]
It also won the award for Best Animated Film at the Kansas City Film Critics Circle
Awards, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards, the National Board of Review
Awards, the Online Film Critics Society Awards, and the Toronto Film Critics
Association Awards.[56] The film received many other awards, including: Kids Choice
Awards for Favorite Movie and Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie (Ellen
DeGeneres) and Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress (Ellen DeGeneres).[56]
The film was also nominated for two Chicago Film Critics Association Awards for
Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress (Ellen DeGeneres), a Golden Globe
Award for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and two MTV Movie Awards for
Best Movie and Best Comedic Performance (Ellen DeGeneres). [56]
In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten Top Ten", the best 10
films in 10 "classic" American film genres, after polling over 1,500 people from the
creative community. Finding Nemo was acknowledged as the 10th best film in the
animation genre.[3] It was the most recently released film among all 10 lists, and one

of only three movies made after the year 2000 (the others being The Lord of the
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Shrek).[57]
American Film Institute recognition:
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary
Edition) Nominated[57]
AFI's 10 Top 10 #10 Animated film[3]

Environmental concerns and consequences[edit]

The film's use of clownfish prompted mass purchase of the fish breed as pets in the
United States, even though the story portrayed the use of fish as pets negatively and
suggested that saltwater aquariums are notably tricky and expensive to maintain.
[58]
The demand for clownfish was supplied by large-scale harvesting of tropical fish
in regions like Vanuatu.[59] The Australian Tourism Commission (ATC) launched
several marketing campaigns in China and the United States to improve tourism in
Australia, many of them utilizing Finding Nemo clips.[60][61] Queensland used Finding
Nemo to draw tourists to promote its state for vacationers. [62] According to National
Geographic, "Ironically, Finding Nemo, a movie about the anguish of a captured
clownfish, caused home-aquarium demand for them to triple." [63]
The reaction to the film by the general public has led to environmental devastation
for the clownfish, and has provoked an outcry from several environmental protection
agencies, including the Marine Aquarium Council, Australia. The demand for tropical
fish skyrocketed after the film's release, causing reef species decimation in Vanuatu
and many other reef areas.[64] After seeing the film, some aquarium owners released
their pet fish into the ocean, but failed to release them into the correct oceanic
habitat, which introduced species that are harmful to the indigenous environment, a
practice that is harming reefs worldwide.[65][66]

Home media[edit]
Finding Nemo was released on VHS and DVD on November 4, 2003.[67] The DVD
release included an original short film Exploring the Reef and the short animated
film, Knick Knack (1989).[68] The film was then released on both Blu-ray and Blu-ray
3D on December 4, 2012, with both a 3-disc and a 5-disc set. [69]

Soundtrack[edit]
Finding Nemo, the original soundtrack album,[70] was the first Pixar film not to be
scored by Randy Newman. The album was scored by Thomas Newman, his cousin,
and released on May 20, 2003.[71] The album was nominated for the Academy Award
for Original Music Score, losing to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.[72]

Theme park attractions[edit]

Finding Nemo has inspired numerous attractions and properties at Disney

Parks around the world, including: Turtle Talk with Crush which opened in 2004
at Epcot, 2005 inDisney California Adventure Park, 2008 in Hong Kong Disneyland,
and 2009 in Tokyo DisneySea; Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage which opened in
2007 in Disneyland Park;The Seas with Nemo & Friends which opened in 2007 at
Epcot; Finding Nemo The Musical which opened in 2007 in Disney's Animal
Kingdom; and Crush's Coaster which opened in 2007 at Walt Disney Studios Park.[73]
[74][75]

Sequel[edit]
Main article: Finding Dory
In 2005, after disagreements between Disney's Michael Eisner and Pixar's Steve
Jobs over the distribution of Pixar's films, Disney announced that they would be
creating a new animation studio, Circle 7 Animation, to make sequels to the seven
Disney-owned Pixar films (which consisted of the films released between 1995 and
2006).[76] The studio had put Toy Story 3 and Monsters University into development,
and had hired screenwriter Laurie Craig to write a draft for Finding Nemo 2.[77] Circle
7 was subsequently shut down after Robert Iger replaced Eisner as CEO of Disney
and arranged the acquisition of Pixar.
In July 2012, it was reported that Andrew Stanton was developing a sequel
to Finding Nemo, to be titled Finding Dory,[78] with Victoria Strouse writing the script
and scheduled to be released in 2016.[79] The same day the news of a potential
sequel broke, director Andrew Stanton called into question the accuracy of these
reports. The message said, "Didn't you all learn from Chicken Little? Everyone calm
down. Don't believe everything you read. Nothing to see here now. #skyisnotfalling".
[80]
According to the report by The Hollywood Reporter published in August 2012,
Ellen DeGeneres was in negotiations to reprise her role of Dory.[81] In September
2012, Stanton confirmed, saying, "What was immediately on the list was writing a
second Carter movie. When that went away, everything slid up. I know I'll be
accused by more sarcastic people that it's a reaction to Carternot doing well, but
only in its timing, but not in its conceit".[82] In February 2013, it was confirmed by the
press that Albert Brooks would reprise the role of Marlin in the sequel. [83]
In April 2013, Disney announced the sequel, Finding Dory, confirming that Ellen
DeGeneres and Albert Brooks would be reprising their roles as Dory and Marlin,
respectively. It was scheduled to be released on November 25, 2015, [84][85] but the
film's ending was revised after Pixar executives viewed Blackfish.[86][87] On September
18, 2013, it was announced that the film would be pushed back to a June 17, 2016,
release. Pixar's The Good Dinosaur was moved to the November 25, 2015 slot to
allow more time for production of the film.[4]

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