The Animation movie from Jorge Blanco 'Planet 51'opened #4 behind 2012, The Blind Side and New Moon respectively with a $12.6 million debut. Spain movies Planet 51 which cost approximately $60 million, finished production by June 2009. It was scheduled for release on November 20, 2009 by Sony Pictures Worldwide via their TriStar Pictures division.
Planet 51 is a comedy of foreign adventures of galactic proportions on an astronaut who comes from the Earth, Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker, who lands in Planet 51 thinking that she has been first in arriving. For his surprise, it discovers that it is lived by green people with antennas, that live in an idyllic world of charming urbanizations that remember the America innocent of the years 50 and whose unique fear is to be invaded by foreign beings… like Chuck. With the aid of a likeable adolescent and other inhabitants of Planet 51, Chuck will try to avoid to the local antiforeign army and to return safe and sound to its spaceship, before being captured.In November 2007, TriStar Pictures had picked up the film's domestic distribution rights; the studio itself was to release the film in the summer of 2009. However, the film’s producers insisted on a November release. TriStar Pictures became the film's home after New Line Cinema became a division of Warner Bros.
Directed by Jorge Blanco
Co-Directer Javier Adad, Marcos Martinez
Produced by Ignacio Perez Dolset, Guy Colins
Written by Joe Stillman
Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman, John Cleese
Music by James Seymour Brett
Editing by Alex Rodriguez
Studio Ilion Animation Studios, HandMade Films
Distributed by TriStar Pictures
Release date(s) November 20, 2009
Running time 91 minutes
Country Spain, United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $60 million
Gross revenue $22,41 million (at Nov 27, 2009)
