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20th Century Studios has unveiled nan first trailer for Ice Age: Boiling Point, nan first Ice Age movie successful much than a decade, which is group to unfastened adjacent February.
In footage unveiled astatine Las Vegas connected Thursday, group against an icy prehistoric landscape, we spot that Scrat, nan franchise’s iconic squirrel, has had a baby. He fights pinch it complete an acorn earlier giving it a babe acorn, which it turns into a pacifier.
We past recognize there’s an progressive volcano successful nan background, and suddenly, lava is everywhere, leaving Scrat and kid to hop from 1 crystal floe to different successful hopes of surviving.
Franchise veterans Ray Romano, Denis Leary, and Queen Latifah were connected manus coming to beforehand nan film, pinch Romano joking up top, “Trump hasn’t landed yet, truthful relax…I don’t cognize what I’m talking about.”
In comparison nan franchise, Romano said, “The existent Ice Age didn’t past this long. When we did Ice Age 1, I cognize I wasn’t wearing compression socks aliases reference glasses.” (In fact, Leary noted, Romano has conscionable go a grandfather.)
Latifah said nan caller finds our lead characters — a group of animals navigating nan Ice Age — astatine “a small fork successful nan roadworthy successful their lives.”
The group said they’ll beryllium taking a travel to a mislaid world, wherever treacherous caller obstacles, including nan volcano, hold for them.
The animated escapade drama bid Ice Age launched pinch a 2002 movie directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, which was a commercialized deed astatine complete $383M worldwide. The spot originated astatine nan 21st Century Fox-owned animation banner Blue Sky Studios, pinch Disney taking power pursuing its 2019 acquisition of Fox.
Following nan original Ice Age came 4 sequels: Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of nan Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016). The films person grossed much than $3.2 cardinal worldwide, each told.
Ice Age: Boiling Point will besides spot nan return of sound actors John Leguizamo and Simon Pegg. It will beryllium nan first theatrical Ice Age movie to not beryllium produced by Blue Sky Studios, pursuing its closure successful April 2021. Lori Forte and Patrick Worlock are nan pic’s producers.
