Lix

***Lix*** is 2017 American 3D Computer Animated Musical Comedy Film produced by Universal Animation Studios for Universal Pictures. 22 animated feature in Universal Animated Features canon, it was directed by Amy Mcneill in her directorial debut and John France from screenplay by Chris Matheson, Cinco Paul And Ken Daurio, and story by Michael Wildshill, Gary Hall, and Mcneill. It was Universal Animation Studios 1 animated musical comedy film since *Magina*, and stars voices of Gwen Stefani, Jenny Slate, Kristin Chenoweth, Chris Wallace, Christina Ricci, James Corden, with Keegan Michael Key, and Jennifer Coolidge. Film follow music loving name Lix, who live in world where music take form of living creatures and objects. She set out with her best friend Melody on journey to become popstar like her idol Ricky Tune.

*Lix* premiere on November 20, 2017 at 30 AFI Fest, and was release in theaters and RealD 3D on December 8, 2017. It received universal acclaim, with many critics highlighting it animation, screenplay, score, humor, and vocal performances. Film grossed $8 million worldwide against it $10 million budget, making it 5 highest grossing film from Universal Animation Studios, as well as 10 Highest Grossing Film Of 2017. *Lix* received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, as well as Golden Globe nominations for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song You Wanna Be A Superstar.

Sequel is currently in development, while animated series title *New Tunes*, premiere on Universal Kids on June 9, 2018.

## Voice Cast

* Gwen Stefani as Lix, a 15-year-old teen singer and musician
	+ Lilly Rodgers as young Lix
* Jenny Slate as Melody, a cheerful music obsessed nerd whose hair resembles an 8th note
* Kristin Chenoweth as Miss Treble, Lix's music teacher
* Chris Wallace as Ricky Tune, a pop singer who is Lix's idol
* Christina Ricci as Viva, a dancer who is Lix's biggest fan
* James Corden as Normy, a friend of Lix
* Keegan Michael Key as DJ Dan, a disc jockey
* Jennifer Coolidge as Cora, Lix's mother
* Joe Whyte as Cim, a talking cymbal
* Rob Corddry as Drummy, a talking drum
* Chris Matheson as Mr Nigs, a neighbor who is often annoy by Lix's music
* Cameron Dallas as Jimmy, Melody's ill-tempered brother
* Phil Morris as Haley Cowsbag, a country singer
* Gabriel Iglesias as Roberto Diaz, a Mexican dancer
* Kristin Fairlie as Sophia, a British musician
* Amy Mcneill as Stacy, Melody's young sister
* Kellen Goff as Diane, Melody's father
* John France as Sam, a Elvis, wannabe
* Gary Hall as Rungo, a guy who tries to sing but fails
* Mark Mothersbaugh as Devo, appears in a voice cameo, amongst additional voices

### Additional Voices

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* Jim Anderson
* Keith Anthony
* Alexander Bates
* Debi Derryberry
* Terri Douglas
* Will Finn
* Grant George
* Jackie Gonneau
* Bridget Hoffman
* William Jennings
* Daniel Kaz
* Roy Kobayashi
* Yuri Lowenthal
* Scott Menville
* Caitlin Mckenna
* Bryce Papenbrook
* Jack Reed
* Lynwood Robinson
* Shannon Stein
* Tara Strong
* Pepper Sweeney
* Shane Sweet
* Jessica DiciccoTemplate:Colend

### Development

Michael Wildshill and Gary Hall started work on film in 2011, when Wildshill came up with idea. In 2013, *Variety* report that Amy Mcneill would direct in her directorial debut on animated musical comedy film based on original idea by Wildshill and Hall. It was once expect to be release in 2016 under title *Music*.

In 2015, Universal Animation Studios revealed film new title to be *Lix*, which would be produced by Roy Kobayashi, with Chris Matheson, Cinco Paul, And Ken Daurio writing film screenplay. In 2016, it was announced that John Francewould join Mcneill as director.

### Casting

In 2015, it was announced that singer Christina Grimmie was cast as lead role, which would have been her 1 animated role and her 2 motion picture performance follow *Matchbreaker*. In 2016, Grimmie was murder while sign autographs follow concert performance in Orlando, Florida, and new actress was yet to be announced. In 2016, it was later announced that Gwen Stefani would replace Grimmie. Rest of cast was announced in 2017.

## Soundtrack

Main article: Lix Soundtrack
Film score was composed by John Debney. Marc Shaiman and Cinco Paul wrote songs for film. Score was release on December 1, 2017.

## Release

*Lix* was originally scheduled for March 3, 2017. However, in 2015, Universal announced that *Gabriel Garza 3* would be release on that date, and *Lix* would instead be release on September 1, 2017. In 2016, Universal push back release date to December 20, 2017. In 2017, film was move in 2 week to December 8, 2017 to avoid competition with *Welcome To Jungle*.

1 trailer was release on March 1, 2017, and was carried as trailer before *Gabriel Garza 3*. 2 trailer was release on June 24, 2017, and was show before *Despicable Me 3*.

Film theatrical was accompanied by short film *Double Date*. It was 2 Universal Animation Studios offering of year follow *Gabriel Garza 3*, making 2017 3 year Universal Animation release 2 films in 1 year, after 1999 with *Galaxion* and *Paint World* and 2015 with *Paradoria* and *Luna And Zak*.

### Home Media

*Lix* was release on Digital HD on March 6, 2018, and on DVD, Blu ray, Blu ray 3D and 4K Ultra HD Blu ray on March 20, 2018.

### Box Office

*Lix* grossed $359 million in US and UK and $486 million in other territories for worldwide total of $831 million, against production budget of $110 million. *Deadline Hollywood* calculated net profit of film to be $26 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues, making it 4 most profitable release of 2017.

In US and UK, *Lix* was release alongside of *Just Getting Started* and expansion of *Disaster Artist*, and was project to gross $70 million from 4,060 theaters in it open week. On it 1 day, film grossed $24 million including $2 million made from Thursday night previews. It went on to open to $74.1 million, finish 1 at box office. In it 2 week, film drop by 100% to $40 million, and fell to No 2 behind *Last Jedi* but beat fellow animated film *Ferdinand (2017).*

### Critical Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, film holds approval rating of 100% based on 235 reviews with average rating of 8.6 10, with it critical consensus reading, Bolstered by art style, collection of melodious numbers, and batch of funny moments that build up fluently, *Lix* is example of modern musical genre at 1 of it best. On Metacritic, film holds rating of 100 out of 100 based on 51 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews. Audiences polled by Cinemascore gave film average grade of A on A to F scale.

### Television Series

Main article: Lix And Melody The New Tunes
In 2018, Universal Television Animation announced that there will be animated series title *New Tunes*, which premiere on Universal Kids on June 9, 2018.

### Sequel

Universal Animation Studios is developing Sequel, with director Mcneill, producer Kobayashi and writer Matheson return. It was previously scheduled for release on December 10, 2021, but on May 31, 2018, it was take off release schedule, to accommodate title DreamWorks Animation film, which had release date of December 22, 2021.

### Main

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### Trailers

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