Cyber Fiction

Cyber Fiction is a 2010 American adult animated science fiction comedy film directed by Luke Mitchell and written by Luke Mitchell and Dan Harmon it stars Zendaya as Violet Stefanie Scott as Alexa and Kodie Smit-McPhee as Vox the film follows 3 teens Violet Alexa and Vox all 14 getting trapped in a sci fi movie and turning into the film's robotic protagonists that they have to escape from the film was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Releasing under the Columbia Pictures banner on July 21 2010 to high critical acclaim for it's subversion and meta commentary on sci fi tropes CGI animation humor writing characters and voice acting the film was a box office success scoring $384.3 million against a $90 million budget
==Plot==
The premise of the film follows 3 14 year old high schoolers Violet Alexa and Vox who all each gets trapped in a universe sci fi film they must try to escape the film while they still can before the main antagonist Cortex (played by Nicolas Cage) gets them 
== Voice Cast ==
Zendaya as Violet a sardonic genre savvy teen girl with a sarcastic sense of humor
Stefanie Scott as Alexa a perky high school girl that gets more mature over the course of the film
Kodie-Smit-McPhee as Vox a awkward dorky teenager 
Nicolas Cage as Cortex a hammy yet intimidating villain hellbent on killing the teenagers
==Production ==
====Development====
The movie was in development since 2004 at Universal Pictures the movie was supposed to be at Universal Pictures however because of creative reasons Universal ended up rejecting the film in 2006 Luke Mitchell and Dan Harmon had to shop the film to other studios until in 2008 Sony Pictures acquired the project and production resumed Original Film also produced as it's first animated feature so did Avi Arad's Arad Productions Relativity Media Dan Harmon's Dan Harmon/Russo Brothers and Luke Mitchell's Laugh Enterprises the film was always meant to be rated PG-13 Certain Sony executives tried to lower the rating to PG since it was a animated feature but Luke Mitchell and Dan Harmon fought tooth and nail for the PG-13 rating until Sony gave up and let the movie be PG-13 production continued in 2009 with some script rewrites and changes until the film was finally released in theaters on July 21 2010 by Sony Pictures Releasing under the Columbia Pictures banner
====Writing====
The film is written by Luke Mitchell and Dan Harmon making it Luke Mitchell's first film and Dan Harmon's second film after Monster House the script of the film mainly consists of meta jokes action sequences character development etc
====Casting ====
Zendaya was cast as the main protagonist Violet while Stefanie Scott was cast as Alexa Kodie-Smit-McPhee was cast as Vox and Nicolas Cage was cast as the main antagonist additionally Mark Wahlberg was cast as one of Cortex's minions Vortex Lucy Hale was cast as a human engineer Verka Robert Downey Jr was cast as the holograph Chipper Channing Tatum was cast as Violet's dad Franklin Luke Mitchell himself voiced Glass the television screen
====Animation and design====
The film's CGI animation and visual effects was done by Sony Pictures Imageworks in Culver City who has had work in some animated films such as The Polar Express Monster House Beowulf (2007) Surf's Up and Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs the CGI animation was made to look realistic yet stylized as much as possible Animation work was completed in May 2010 the creators of the film felt it was one of the few films that needed to be watched in 3D thanks to it's medium of animation the film was animated using the software Autodesk Arnold by Sony Pictures Imageworks and was done using modern innovative and modern virtual reality equipment and some scenes were done using motion capture 
==Release==
==== Marketing====
a sizzle reel of the film was shown at a Sony presentation in December 31 2009 by Sony Pictures Releasing revealing it's quirky sense of humor the fact it's a adult animated film and the CGI animation Scott Mendelson at Forbes said the footage looked incredible stylized glossy and quirky a teaser trailer was revealed at a 2010 theater experience and was released online and everywhere on February 12 2010 Roger Elbert felt the trailer was looks much better than it needed to be the style is on display the humor is fresh the action is vibrant and it has a unique personality from start to finish 
the official trailer was uploaded and released on March 12 2010 and was praised by The New York Times for it's animation humor and action for Roger Elbert he praised the trailer for focusing on mature self aware humor over action deconstructing sci fi tropes and for seemingly targeting "a slightly hipper, more urban, and teen-oriented crowd." he felt animated films were usually made to appeal to ''kids and all ages'' and that this could be a ''Game changer for American animation'' he also praised it for having ''no fart jokes'' The trailer generated 164 thousand conversations across social media platforms within a day of its release, Sony released a second trailer for the film on May 14 2010 viral marketing was done such as a Super Bowl campaign where everyone dressed up as the characters from the film additionally the second trailer revealed the film was rated PG-13 a surprising but well regarded choice Cartoon brew praised as it meant ''the film would be more mature and would be aimed at a teen/young adult crowd and not a general audience crowd'' toys were released by McFarlane Toys as collectibles and not children's toys to promote the film it was also promoted as ''From the producers of Fast and Furious and the producers of Spider Man''
====Theatrical ====
Cyber Fiction premiered at a Sundance film festival on July 11 2010 before being released widely and theatrically on July 21 2010 by Sony Pictures Releasing under the Columbia Pictures label in August 2008 Sony had made it's first official announcement that an adult animated sci fi film was in development and in 2009 was set to release on July 18 2010 in late 2009 the release date was changed to July 21 2010 Sony premiered the film at a Sundance film festival on July 11 2010 before receiving a wide release on July 21 2010 theatrically 
====Home Media====
Cyber Fiction was released on DVD Blu Ray and Blu Ray 3D by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on October 19 2010 the release came with both the theatrical cut and a brand new extended cut featuring new scenes more fight scenes more jokes deleted scenes put back brand new or extended fight scenes and so on a 4K Ultra HD version was released on August 12 2017 
== Release==
====Box Office====
Cyber Fiction grossed $190.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $194.0 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $384.3 million, against a production budget of $90 million. on August 1 2010 the film surpassed Open Season as Sony Picture's highest grossing animated feature and the highest grossing animated feature and the second highest grossing PG-13 rated animated feature behind The Simpsons Movie and one of the highest grossing 2010 features 
====Critical Reception ====
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 95% based on 403 reviews with an average rating of 8.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ''In this mature animated outing Cyber Fiction outclasses the recent kiddy animated features with it's self aware humor action sequences dazzling animation and it's unique postmodern deconstruction of the sci fi genre'' On Metacritic which uses weighted scores the score is 87 out of 100 based on reviews from 50 critics indicating ''universal acclaim'' Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of A+ on a A to F Roger Elbert praised the film for ''it's ability to blend humor and action and it's postmodern deconstruction of the sci fi genre'' he also wrote the ''PG-13 rating allows the team to get with more than your average PG flick'' David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a B+ and called it "hilarious and ultimately even poignant," writing ''it's a lot more mature than your average animated flick'' and ''it's full of humor heart and action''
== Franchise and Legacy==
The film has since launched a media franchise with video games sequels comics and a television series including the sequels Cyber Future (2013) Cyber Travel (2016) Cyber Project (2019) Cyber X (2022) and Cyber Verse (2023) and a television series Cyber Screen (2017) on SyFy it is considered one of the most influential animated films of all time
== Trivia ==
1: It is Original Film's first animated film
2: It is one of the few non G or PG rated animated films to be successful being critically acclaimed being a massive box office success and launching a media franchise 
3: It is Sony's first PG-13 rated animated film since Eight Crazy Nights (2002) and the first to be successful
4: Luke Mitchell said although a satire of sci fi movies he wanted it to not feel like a spoof movie this is why the action scenes feel serious while the humor feels balanced 
5: the main reason why the film was rated PG-13 was because the film's creator Luke Mitchell wanted to break the stereotype of ''animation only being for kids''
6: It is also one of Sony Picture's animated movies to not be produced by Sony Pictures Animation 
7: FX is known to air the movies a lot 
8: It is Avi Arad's fiirst original film
9: The film is CGI animated using the Autodesk Arnold software additionally while most of the movie uses normal CGI animation certain sequences like the final fight with Violet Alexa and Vox and Cortex utilize motion capture
10: The film is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for ''Intense and Stylized Sequences and Depictions of Sci Fi Violence and Action Peril Mature Thematic Material Menace Language Innuendo and Drug Content''
11: In the UK and Ireland the film is rated 12A/12 for ''Moderate violence threat and language'' 
12: In Australia the film is rated M for ''Moderate violence Mature Themes Language and Sexual References''
13: When the film came on home media the film came with a extended cut that includes longer fight scenes deleted scenes restored back new scenes more jokes etc it runs longer than the theatrical version as the theatrical version ran for 111 minutes while the extended version ran for 144 minutes 
14: It is one of the highest grossing films of 2010 
15: Luke Mitchell said the inspiration for the film came from ''Tron'' and ''Last Action Hero''
16: It is one of Columbia Picture's highest grossing animated films
17: The Common Sense Media age recommendation is Ages 14+
18: As seen from the poster it's marketed as ''From the producers of Fast and Furious'' (Original Film) and ''The producers of Spider Man'' (Avi Arad) 
19: The film was originally at Universal Pictures before going to Sony/Columbia
20: The Film has won or has been nominated for some awards including ''Oscars" (a very rare award for a sci fi genre film and a animated one in particular) ''Saturn Awards'' ''MTV Movie & TV Awards'' ''Teen Choice Awards'' ''Golden Globes'' ''Critic's Choice Awards'' ''People's Choice Awards'' ''IGN Summer Movie Awards'' etc
21: While the film was always intended to be PG-13 certain Sony executives (Not Amy Pascal than president of Sony Pictures) tried to lower the rating to PG for being a animated film until Luke Mitchell and Dan Harmon won and Sony let the film be PG-13 to success 
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