Caillou: The Movie

Caillou: The Movie is an upcoming 2019 Canadian-American animated film. 3D hand-drawn-live action animated fantasy family adventure action comedy musical drama comedy film. based off the Animated Canadian Series of the same name.

The film was directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, and features the voices of Annie Boivard, Jesse Vinet, Jennifer Seguin, Pat Fry, Paul Christie, Katherine Dillon, Tim Williams, Jenny Slate, John Cena, Jason Segal, Millie Davis, Abbey Thickson, and others.

The film is scheduled to be released in RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema, IMAX 3D, and IMAX Theatre and AMC Theatres and Cineplex and Odeon.

The film is scheduled to be released on January 25, 2019.

Cast

 * Annie Bouchard as Caillou/Classic Caillou
 * Jesse Vinet as Rosie
 * Jennifer Seguin as Doris
 * Pat Fry as Boris
 * Jason Segel as Little Bill
 * John Cena as Gilbert the Cat
 * Ava Preston as Brenda Glover
 * Jenny Slate as Brenda’s Singing Voice
 * Anthony Field as Big Bill Glover
 * Emma Watkins as April Glover
 * Brandon Michael Cienfuegos as Bobby Glover
 * Millie Davis as Alice The Great
 * Tim Williams as Elephant the Hamster
 * Abbey Thickson as Leo
 * Sydney Mikayla as Clementine
 * Katherine Dillon as Leah
 * Paul Christie as Moose A. Moose
 * Lachlan Gillespie as Lucky the Stage Manager Dog
 * Nancy Truman as Miss Martin
 * Simon Pryce as Hamster #1
 * Ryan Beil as Hamster #2
 * Debi Derryberry as Jay Jay the Jet Plane (Post Credits Scene)

Additional Voices

 * Bob Bergen - Porky Pig
 * June Christopher - S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Kitana Turnbull - Sarah
 * Barry Wiggins - Ben
 * Melanie Minichono - Lucy
 * Molly Jackson - Anna
 * Ramone Hamilton - Kevin
 * Shiloh Nelson - Unicorn #1
 * Myla Beau - Unicorn #2
 * Alyson Stoner - Unicorn #3
 * Liliana Mumy - Ayle
 * Donald Ian Black - Robin
 * Melanie Spore - Eric
 * Anna Vocino - Jessica
 * Karen Huie - Girl
 * ViviAnn Yee - Regina
 * Gunnar Sizemore - Gina

Development
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Filming
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Casting
In December 2017, casted It was announced that the main cast of the TV series (Annie Boivard, Jesse Vinet, Jennifer Seguin, and Pat Fry) would reprise their roles for the film, and John Cena was cast as The Voice of Gilbert.

The rest of the cast was announced on mid-February 2018.

Animation
Animation began in October 2018. John Cena rejected making a CGI film, calling the film's animation "a tribute to the world and art of traditional hand-drawn animated films". He said that he would not like it if the film was CGI and that it would destroy the hearts of people who grew up with Caillou. The film was produced in a widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio, to distinguish it from the looks of the Caillou TV series and was colored by the same palette behind said show.

Most of the in-house animation crew of the film were from many different animation studios, including Walt Disney Animation Studios, DreamWorks Animation, DHX Media, Duncan Studio, and Warner Bros. Animation.

The animation was done by Film Roman in Woodland Hills, California and Rough Draft Studios in Glendale, California. Additional animation production work was divided among eight studios: Yowza Animation in Toronto, Canada, Bardel Entertainment in Vancouver, Canada, Mercury Filmworks in Ottawa, Canada, Toon City Animation in Manila, Philippines, Wang Film Productions in Xindian, Taipei, Taiwan, Digital eMation/Rough Draft's division in South Korea, and Warner Bros. Animation in Burbank, California. The stereoscopic 3D conversion and the stereographic animation was done by StereoD in Burbank, California.

Emma Watkins, Anthony Field, and John Cena signed on as visual consultants for the movie. The three consultants tackled with the idea of a three-dimensional traditional-animated film. Because of this, the camera moves both differently than many of the hand-drawn animated films and similarly to a live-action film.

Visual Effects
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Post Production
Gary Rydstrom and Randy Thom, the sound designers of the film, used a combination of sound approaches. Some of the sound effects are cartoony while others tend to be more realistic.

Music
In May 2019, it was confirmed that Mychael Danna and Jeff Denna would compose the score for the film. Menken and Lennertz previously composed the score together for the R-rated CGI animated film Sausage Party. The two felt that the score was a "unique challenge" as they had to "try and express the style of Caillou without wearing the audience out". They used the opening theme from the series, but they did not want to overuse it.

Songs
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Release
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Trailers

 * The first teaser trailer will be released on May 2019 and will be shown before Avengers 4, Detective Pikachu, Aladdin, The Secret Life of Pets 2, Toy Story 4, and The Lion King.
 * The second teaser trailer will be released on September 2019 and will be shown before Spies in Disguise, Abominable, The Addams Family, Sonic the Hedgehog, Frozen 2, and Star Wars: Episode IX.

Theatrical release promotions

 * Fox will air a Caillou marathon Saturdays on January 2019.

Home media
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Box office
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Critical response
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an approval rating of 94% based on 235 reviews and an average score of 9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Caillou: The Movie expands upon the titular character's world with fluid animation, great characters, a spectacular voice cast, and slick writing that will make some of today's animated movies look pedestrian." On Metacritic, it received a score of 90 out of 100, based of 30 critics, indicating "very positive reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare grade of "A+" on an A+ to F scale.

Transcript
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TV Spot Transcripts
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Credits
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Trivia

 * Unicorn #1 sounds like Keia from Puppy Dog Pals.
 * Regina sounds like Bridget from Vampirina.