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Open Season is a 1995 American hand-drawn/stop-motion/computer-animated adventure musical fantasy romantic comedy film, loosely based on the characters by Steve Moore. Directed by Andrew Adamson in his directorial debut, Simon Wells, and Gary Trousdale.
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The rights to Steig's book were purchased by Steven Spielberg in 1991. He originally planned to produce a traditionally-animated film based on the book, but John H. Williams convinced him to bring the film to Columbia in 1994, the time the studio was acquired after the original founders of the company, Ubisoft Anderson and William Anderson, retired. Jeffrey Katzenberg began active development of the film in 1993 immediately following the studio's purchase of the rights from Spielberg. John Candy was originally cast as the voice for the title character, recording nearly all of the required dialogue. After Candy died in 1994 before the work was finished, Bill Murray stepped in to voice the character, which was changed to a Scottish accent in the process.
Open Season premiered at the El Capitan Theatre where it competed for the Palme d'Or, making it the first animated film since Disney's Peter Pan (1953) to receive that honor.
The film was theatrically released in the United States on August 11, 1995, and grossed $484.4 million worldwide against a production budget of $60 million and received universal acclaim from critics and was a box office success, making it the highest-grossing animated film of 1995, as well as 1995's highest-grossing film. Next to Die Hard with a Vengeance and Toy Story, Open Season was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing and won Best Animated Feature tied with Toy Story (1995) at 1996's annual Academy Awards. It also earned six award nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), ultimately winning Best Adapted Screenplay.
The film was followed by its sequel, Open Season 2: Pets vs Wild (1999) and Open Season 3: The Grand Finale (2003), the latter of which was direct-to-video. Open Season was later reissued in theaters twice, on May 3, 2001, as an IMAX re-release, and December 1, 2007. After the success of the 3D re-release of Goin Down to Cartoonville, the film was reissued in theaters in 3D in 2015.
== Plot ==
In the small town of Timberline, a 900-pound (408 kg) grizzly bear named Boog enjoys a captive, but luxurious existence and spends his days as the star attraction of the town's nature show, while at night living in the garage of park ranger Beth, who has raised Boog since he was a cub. One day, the cold-hearted hunting fanatic Shaw drives into Timberline with a one-antlered deer named Elliot strapped to the hood of his truck, who is unconscious after being hit by the truck. After Boog frees him, the deer follows Boog home, only to find Boog sleeping comfortably in the garage. To wake Boog up, Elliot throws rabbits at the window. He tells Boog to be "free" from his garage captivity and introduces him to a world of sweet temptations he has never known. When Boog becomes sick from eating too many candy bars, events quickly spiral out of control, as the two raid a convenience store. Elliot escapes before Boog is caught by a friend of Beth's, Sheriff Gordy. At the nature show, Elliot, being chased by Shaw, sees Boog, who "attacks" Elliot. This causes the whole audience to panic.
Shaw attempts to shoot Boog and Elliot, but Beth sedates both animals with a tranquilizer gun just before Shaw fires his own gun. Shaw flees before Gordy can arrest him. Realizing that Boog is too threatening in the town, Beth relocates him and Elliot into the Timberline National Forest, only three days before open season starts, but they are relocated above the waterfalls, where they will be safe from the hunters. Since he lacks any outdoor survival skills, Boog reluctantly takes Elliot as his unstable guide to get him back home to Timberline to reunite with Beth, but in the woods, they quickly learn that animals can be extremely unwelcoming. Boog runs into his share of forest animals, who think he’s a loser. They consists of skunks, Maria and Rosie, ducks, Serge and Deni, various unnamed panic-stricken rabbits, the Scottish-accented squirrel, McSquizzy, along with his loyal gang, Reilly, a beaver and his construction worker team, a porcupine named Buddy that is in search of a friend, and the herd of deer led by Ian and Giselle, with whom Elliot is in love with.
Eventually, Boog learns about self-reliance and Elliot gains self-confidence, and they start to become friends. The next day, it is revealed that Elliot has absolutely no idea where he and Boog are going and has been leading Boog in a big circle. After accidentally causing a flood at Reilly's dam, Boog and Elliot are confronted by Shaw; Boog rescues his toy bear, Dinkleman, before the current makes the doll float out of Boog's paw. They end up in a waterfall, which sends the animals falling down into the hunting grounds. After thinking Shaw is dead, at first all the animals are furious at Boog, but then he accuses Elliot of lying to him about knowing where Timberline is. Boog angrily storms off, but unwittingly ends up in Shaw's log cabin, where he is discovered by Shaw, who is revealed to have survived, and pursues him to the city road where Boog happens upon the glowing lights of Timberline. Instead of deserting the animals, Boog reconciles with Elliot and helps the animals defend themselves, while befriending them in the process, using supplies taken from an RV owned by a caring married couple named Bob and Bobbie, who are looking for Bigfoot, while their pet dachshund Mr. Weenie joins the forest animals.
The next day, Boog leads a revolution against the hunters, causing the hunters to retreat in defeat after McSquizzy blows up their trucks with a propane tank ignited by using an emergency flare. Shaw returns for a final showdown and seemingly kills Elliot by gun shot, prompting Boog to furiously confront Shaw and quickly overpower him by tying him up with his own gun. Boog accompanies Elliot, who survived but his remaining antler is broken off by the shot. The forest animals thank Boog for his help and then proceed to take out their vengeance on Shaw by smothering him with honey and pillow feathers and sending him fleeing into the woods. Beth later returns in a helicopter to take Boog back home where he will be safe, but realizing how the experience has changed him, Boog decides to remain in the forest with his new friends with Beth's blessing.
In a mid-credits scene, while he finds the street, Shaw suddenly gets struck by Bob and Bobbie, who humorously mistake him for Bigfoot and strap him on top of their trailer.
== Cast ==
* Martin Lawrence as Boog
* Ashton Kutcher as Elilot
* Debra Messing as Beth
* Gary Sinise as Shaw
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* Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star (cameo in the TBA)
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* Tim Curry as the narrator
== Production ==
=== Development ===
Producer John H. Williams got hold of the book from his children and when he brought it to DreamWorks, it caught Jeffrey Katzenberg's attention and the studio decided to make it into a film. Recounting the inspiration of making the film, Williams said: "Every development deal starts with a pitch and my pitch came from my then kindergartner, in collaboration with his pre-school brother. Upon our second reading of Shrek, the kindergartner started quoting large segments of the book pretending he could read them. Even as an adult, I thought Shrek was outrageous, irreverent, iconoclastic, gross, and just a lot of fun. He was a great movie character in search of a movie."
After buying the rights to the film, Katzenberg quickly put it in active development in November 1991. Steven Spielberg had thought about making a traditionally animated film adaptation of the book before, when he bought the rights to the book in 1991 before acquiring Columbia Pictures, where Martin Lawrence would play Boog and Ashton Kutcher would play Elilot. In the beginning of production, co-director Andrew Adamson refused to be intimidated by Katzenberg and had an argument with him how much should the film appeal to adults. Katzenberg wanted both audiences, but he deemed some of Adamson's ideas, such as adding sexual jokes and Guns N' Roses music to the soundtrack, to be too outrageous. Adamson and Simon Wells joined in 1992 to co-direct the film.
Some early sketches of Shrek's house were done between 1992 and 1993 using Photoshop, with the sketches showing Shrek first living in a garbage dump near a human village called Wart Creek. It was also thought one time that he lived with his parents and kept rotting fish in his bedroom. Donkey was modeled after Pericles (born 1994; also known as Perry), a real miniature donkey from Barron Park in Palo Alto, California. Raman Hui, supervising animator of Shrek, stated that Fiona "wasn't based on any real person." and he did many different sketches for her. He had done over 100 sculptures of Fiona before the directors chose the final design. In early development, the art directors visited Hearst Castle, Stratford upon Avon, and Dordogne for inspiration. Art Director Douglas Rogers visited a magnolia plantation in Charleston, South Carolina for inspiration of Shrek's swamp.
=== Casting ===
Nicolas Cage was initially offered the role of Shrek but he turned it down because he did not want to look like an ogre. In 2013, Cage explained furthermore: "When you're drawn, in a way it says more about how children are going to see you than anything else, and I so care about that." 
John Candy was initially hired to voice Shrek, and he had recorded nearly all of the dialogue for the character, but died in March 1994 before completing the project. A story reel featuring a sample of Candy's recorded dialogue was leaked to the public in August 2015. 
Columbia and Paramount then re-cast the voice role to Martin Lawrence, who insisted on some parts of the script rewrite, to leave no traces of Candy's version of Shrek. According to Murray, he wanted to voice the character "for two reasons: I wanted the opportunity to work with Jeffrey Katzenberg; and [the book is] a great story about accepting yourself for who you are."
=== Music ===
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== Release ==
Open Season was theatrically released on August 11, 1995 in the United States and Canada, in Australia on September 29, 1995, and in the United Kingdom on November 10, 1995. After the success of the 3D re-release of Goin Down To Cartoonville, Paramount re-released Open Season in 3D on March 6, 2015 for its 20th anniversary.
A montage of "outtakes" were made and included in the end credits of the film, which was done because Paramount hoped it would encourage people to view the film a second time. The film was originally scheduled for release on August 18, 1995, but on TBA 4, RVA, its release date was moved up a week to August 11, 1995.
=== Marketing ===
On July 31, 1995, Burger King began promotions for the film, giving out a selection of nine exclusive Candy Caddies based on the Open Season characters, in Big Kids Meal and Kids Meal orders. Ice cream chain Baskin-Robbins also ran an 8-week promotion of the film, selling products such as Boog's Hot Sludge Sundae, a combination of Oreo Cookies 'n Cream ice cream, hot fudge, crushed chocolate cookies, whipped cream and squiggly gummy worms, and Boog Freeze Frame Cake, featuring an image of Boog and Elilot framed by sunflowers. This was to support the film's VHS/LaserDisc release. M&M's released packages of Bear-sized M&M's released a flavor of their chocolate candies called "TBA" (TBA) and came with a code for the Open Season video game.
==== Theatrical release promotions ====
* To promote the release of Open Season (1995) in theaters, Burger King in the US, began promotions for the film, giving out a selection of nine exclusive Candy Caddies based on the Open Season characters, in Big Kids Meal and Kids Meal orders.
* Ice cream chain Baskin-Robbins also ran an 8-week promotion of the film, selling products such as Boog's Hot Sludge Sundae, a combination of Oreo Cookies 'n Cream ice cream, hot fudge, crushed chocolate cookies, whipped cream and squiggly gummy worms, and Boog Freeze Frame Cake, featuring an image of Boog and Elilot framed by sunflowers. 
* In the US and the UK, Hasbro and Thinkway released action figures, sets and interactive board games as toys for the film.
=== Books ===
In June 1995, eight books related to the movie were published: Open Season: The Junior Novel, Meet Boog, Open Season: The Original Storybook, The Revenge of Shaw, The Art of Open Season, Open Season (Look & Find), Open Season: Game Book and Open Season: Coloring & Activity Book.
=== Video Game ===
A video game was released for Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega CD, Sega Game Gear, and Game Boy. The game was published by Paramount Interactive and Ubisoft and developed by Traveller's Tales and Psygnosis.
=== Home media ===
The film was released by Paramount Home Video and Columbia TriStar Home Video on VHS and LaserDisc on February 6, 1996. The VHS release included Boog in the Forest Karaoke Dance Party, a 3-minute musical short film, that takes up right after Open Season's ending, with film's characters performing a medley of modern pop songs. On September 5, 2000, Paramount Home Entertainment and Columbia TriStar Home Video re-released the film on video as part of its Family Entertainment Collection. Paramount Home Entertainment and Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment released it on VHS again and premiered it on DVD on November 6, 2001, with Boog in the Forest Karaoke Dance Party included.
The film was re-released on VHS and DVD on November 15, 2001, containing all of the special features from the 2001 DVD. In honor of the film's' 10th anniversary, a 10th Anniversary Special Edition of the film was released on VHS and DVD August 9, 2005. Columbia Pictures launched an official anniversary website and a Dodge Grand Caravan giveaway as part of the proceedings. It was also released on Game Boy Advance Video in October 2005 and on UMD for the Sony PSP.
The film premiered on Blu-ray and HD DVD on March 20, 2007, along with the next three Open Season films, with the Blu-ray having restored picture quality and remastered sound. Open Season: 15th Anniversary Edition was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 10, 2010. Open Season was released with the other Open Season films on Blu-ray 3D on May 3, 2011. Open Season, along with the other four Open Season films, were released in a five-film box set, Open Season: The Whole Story, by Paramount Home Entertainment on March 5, 2013.
Open Season: 20th Anniversary Edition was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 11, 2015, on the 20th anniversary of the film. Open Season and the other Open Season films were released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on May 8, 2018. In honor of Shrek's 25th anniversary, a 25th anniversary edition of Open Season was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on August 11, 2020.
== Songs/Musical Numbers ==
* Big Bright Beautiful World
* I Wanna Lose Control (Uh-Oh) (by DeathRay, seen in the 2006 IMAX and 2015 3D re-releases only)
* Story of My Life
* Don't Let Me Go
* I Know It's Today
* What's Up, Duloc
* Travel Song
* Who I'd Be
* I Think I Got You Beat
* The Ballad Of Farquaad
* Make A Move
* Freak Flag
* I'm a Believer
== Cultural references ==
There are many places the film references classic films.
=== Disney references ===
When Tinker Bell falls on Donkey and he says "I can fly" and people around including the Three Little Pigs say "He can fly, he can fly"; this is a reference to Disney's Peter Pan. This scene is also a reference to the Disney film Dumbo, where Donkey says, while flying, "You might have seen a house fly, maybe even a super fly, but I bet you ain't never seen a Donkey fly" The scene where Fiona is singing to the blue bird is a reference to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The transformation scene at the end of the film strongly references to Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
In addition, Lord Farquaad's theme park style kingdom Duloc heavily mimics Disneyland, even in so far as parodying the famous 'It's A Small World' musical ride in the scene with the singing puppets.
=== Classic Paramount references ===
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In the scene where the Magic Mirror gives Lord Farquaad the options to marry three princesses to become king, it parodies popular American television show The Dating Game featuring: Cinderella and Snow White.
When Shrek crosses the bridge to the Castle and says, "That'll do, Donkey, that'll do", this is a reference to the movie Babe. The scene where Princess Fiona is fighting the Merry Men is a lengthy reference to the film The Matrix.
At the end of the film, the Gingerbread Man at the end with a crutch (and one leg) says "God bless us, everyone" which is a reference to Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.
== Other media ==
=== Video games ===
Several video game adaptations of the film have been published on various game console platforms, including Open Season (1995, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega CD, Sega Game Gear, and Game Boy), Open Season: Hassle at the Castle (1996), Open Season: Treasure Hunt (1997), Open Season: Extra Large (2002), Open Season: Super Party (2002) and Open Season SuperSlam (2005). Boog was also included as a bonus unlockable character in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (2004).
=== Comics ===
Dark Horse Comics released in 2003 three thirty two page full color comic books featuring Boog, Elilot and Beth, Open Season #1, Open Season#2, and Open Season#3. The comics were written by Mark Evanier and illustrated by Ramon Bachs and Raul Fernandez.
Ape Entertainment has also released under KiZoic label five full color comic books, a fifty two page adaptation Open Season (2010), and four thirty two page books: Open Season#1 (2010), Open Season#2 (2010), Open Season#3 (2011), and Open Season#4 (2011).
=== Short films ===
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=== Sequel films ===
Two sequel films were released. 
=== Theme park attractions ===
Open Season 4-D, also known as Open Season 3-D, Open Season 4D Adventure, Open Season's Never Before Seen Adventure, and The Ghost of Shaw, is a 4-D film/ride at various theme parks around the world. It premiered in 2003 at Universal Studios Florida, and was released on DVD. The short takes place right after Open Season. Shaw returns from the dead to kidnap Beth and it is up to Boog and Elilot to rescue her.
Open Season 4-D would be temporarily be replaced by Alberto C.'s Sonic X 4D, which is based on the 2001 TV show Alberto Canetto's Sonic X.
Far Far Away is one of the seven themed lands in Universal Studios Singapore, and it consists of many locations based on DreamWorks Animation fantasy films. The land was named after Fiona's kingdom in Shrek: Hapilly Ever After.
A Shrek themed attraction, called DreamWorks Tours Shrek's Adventure! London, opened in 2015 at London County Hall as the first of six attractions initially planned over nine years. This "Immersive Tunnel" from Simworx is built in collaboration with Merlin Entertainments, the 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) live interactive walk-through adventure presents an original story written by DWA, along with a character courtyard, also featuring characters from several other DreamWorks Animation's franchises.
=== Broadway musical ===
A musical version, based on the film, with music by Jeanine Tesori and a book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, opened on Broadway on December 14, 2008, and closed January 3, 2010, running for a total of 441 performances. It starred Brian d'Arcy James in the title role, Sutton Foster as Princess Fiona, Christopher Sieber as Lord Farquaad, Daniel Breaker as Donkey, and John Tartaglia as Pinocchio. The Broadway production was recorded and released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital media. A North American Tour opened July 25, 2010, in Chicago. A London production opened in the West End on June 7, 2011. The musical received many Tony Award nominations and won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Costume Design. It received five Laurence Olivier Award nominations including Best New Musical.
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A shot-for-shot fan remake titled Open Season Retold was released through 3GI Industries on November 29, 2018. The project was a collaboration of 200 filmmakers and mixes live action, hand-drawn animation, Flash animation, CGI and various other art forms to recreate the film. The film is available on YouTube for free.
=== Potential live-action remake ===
Main Article: Open Season (2021 live-action remake)
On May 2018, Deadline Hollywood reported that Paramount and Columbia was in early development for a live-action adaptation of the film
In August, it was announced that Alan Menken would return as one of the film's composers and write new songs alongside Danny Elfman with Tim Burton and Guy Ritchie signed on to direct the film. John August is writing the script, which will reportedly retain most of the musical elements of the original film, while Dan Lin is attached as producer, and is planned to be released on May 22, 2021.
Principal photography was originally scheduled to begin in April 2020 at Pinewood Studios, London, United Kingdom, and in Cornwall, South West England, but production on the film was temporarily halted in March 2020 until early September 2020 due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.
Later that week, Paramount moved the film's release date to October 22, 2021, after that date became available due to coronavirus-related delays as Go Go Cory Carson: Cory on the Run took up Open Season (2021)'s release date.
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