It's Mickey!

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It's Mickey! is an 2017 American animated comedy film distributed by Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures. The film is based on Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks' Disney character of the same name. The film was directed by Chris Renaud with a screenplay by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. The film stars the voices of Bret Iwan, Russi Taylor, Tony Anselmo, Bill Farmer, Tress MacNeille, and Corey Burton.

Synopsis
Mickey Mouse has a got an HUGE problem. A man named Buggy Jacker needs Mickey and his friends help to host up a party for Jacker's own hotel. He needs to host a party at it for an anniversary of the day he opened it one year ago. However, whenever Mickey and his friends try to help, chaos plunges and ensues around the entire hotel, and possibly, it's existence.

Development
In 2013, Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment had announced plans for an full-length feature film starring Mickey Mouse. It was officially titled as "It's Mickey!" with Despicable Me co-director Chris Renaud onset to direct. Eric Guillon was announced as the art director while Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio set to write the screenplay of the film.

Bill Kopp was originally set to direct the film, but declined because he needed to work on other projects.

Casting
In 2016, Bret Iwan was announced to reprise his role as Mickey. Earlier that day, Bill Farmer and Russi Taylor was also announced to reprise their roles as Goofy (Farmer) and Minnie (Taylor). Tony Anselmo was announced to reprise his role as Donald Duck one week later. Steve Zahn from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series voices Buggy Jacker.

Animation
The animation was used with Illumination Mac Guff, an Illumination company based off of Mac Guff. According to Pierre Coffin, it took 77 people to animate the film. Like in many Illumination films, CGI was used, including animation for the Minions in the opening logos for Universal Pictures and Illumination.

Writing
Writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio who worked for the Despicable Me films wrote the screenplay.

Music
Instead of having music from Danny Elfman or Michael Giacchino, American composer Mark Adamo made the music for the film. It ran from September 17 to October 10, 2016. The whole music was released on iTunes on June 18, 2018. Adamo confirmed that Heitor Pereira who also helped with the Despicable Me films helped with the music as the producer of the songs.