Pixels

Pixels (2015)

Timing: 1:46 (106 min)

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Release date

2015-07-16

Country

United States, China, France, India

Production

Happy Madison Productions, Columbia Pictures, 1492 Pictures, Film Croppers, LStar Capital, China Film Group Corporation, Prime Focus, China Film Group Corporation

Genre

Action, Comedy, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Budget

$88 000 000

Revenue

$244 874 809

Website

https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/pixels

Director

Chris Columbus

Actors

Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, Matt Lintz, Brian Cox, Denis Akiyama, Sean Bean, Jane Krakowski
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Scenario

Producer

Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe, Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, Steve Koren, Ben Waisbren, Barry Bernardi, Michael Barnathan, Jack Giarraputo, Heather Parry

Operator

Amir Mokri

Composer

Henry Jackman

Artist

Andrew Redekop, Natasha Peschlow

Audition

Angela Demo, Barbara J. McCarthy, Barbara J. McCarthy

Editing

Hughes Winborne
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• Jennifer Aniston turned down the role that Michelle Monaghan eventually played.
• Josh Gad's character's last name is Lamonsoff. This surname frequently appears in films with Adam Sandler and is a reference to his college roommate, Eric Lamonsoff.
• Although the film is called 'Pixels,' the attacking aliens are actually made of voxels.
• At the beginning of the film, when Adam Sandler’s character connects a PS4 to the TV, the TV screen shows the console menu. In the next shot, he’s holding the HDMI cable in his hand, but it’s not connected to the PS4.
• At the base, during preparations for the alien attack, a boy is playing The Last of Us, but when the shot changes, the DualShock4 is not lit up, even though the light bar should be active when playing.
• The film begins in the scorching summer of 1982. Young arcade gamers discuss pop stars, mentioning Madonna and Samantha Fox. However, Madonna's debut album was released a year later and went unnoticed at the time, and in that same anachronistic 1983, Samantha Fox's parents had just submitted her photos to the 'Face and Shape of 1983' novice model contest, so there was no talk of a musical career for Samantha at that time.
• The character of Dennis Akayama, Professor Iwatani, was based on the real creator of the game Pac-Man – Toru Iwatani.
• The surname of Josh Gad's character is Lamonsoff. This surname frequently appears in films with Adam Sandler and is a reference to his college roommate, Eric Lamonsoff.