Fantasia 2000

Fantasia 2000
Directed by	Don Hahn Pixote Hunt Hendel Butoy Eric Goldberg James Algar Francis Glebas Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi
Produced by	Donald W. Ernst
Written by	See credits Don Hahn Irene Mecchi David Reynolds Kirk Hanson Kelvin Yasuda James Fujii Francis Glebas Brenda Chapman Christopher Sanders Eric Goldberg James Capobianco Ron Muerin Joe Grant Dick Huemer Perce Pearce Carl Fallberg Robert Gibbs Terry Naughton Todd Kurosawa Pat Ventura Don Dougherty Stevie Wermers Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi
Starring	James Levine Deems Taylor Steve Martin Itzhak Perlman Quincy Jones Ralph Grierson Bette Midler Yefim Bronfman James Earl Jones Eric Goldberg Penn & Teller Wayne Allwine Leopold Stokowski Russi Taylor Tony Anselmo Angela Lansbury
Music by	See program Ludwig Van Beethoven Ottorino Respighi George Gershwin Dmitri Shostakovich Camille Saint-Saëns Paul Dukas Edward Elgar Igor Stravinsky
Cinematography	Tim Suhrstedt
Edited by	Jessica Ambinder-Rojas Lois Freeman-Fox
Production companies	Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Feature Animation
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Release date	December 17, 1999 (1999-12-17) (Carnegie Hall) January 1, 2000 (2000-01-01) (IMAX) June 16, 2000 (2000-06-16) (United States)
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$80–$85 million
Box office	$90.9 million

Fantasia 2000 is a 1999 American animated movie. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a sequel to Fantasia (1940). Like the earlier movie, it has animated segments set to pieces of classical music. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the only segment that is in both movies.

The soundtrack was performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with conductor James Levine. A group of celebrities introduce each segment in live-action scenes. The celebrities include Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Penn & Teller, James Earl Jones, Quincy Jones and Angela Lansbury.

Fantasia 2000 was shown at Carnegie Hall on December 17, 1999. It was part of a five-city concert tour, with performances in London, Paris, Tokyo and Pasadena, California. An exclusive release in IMAX theatres followed from January 1 to April 30, 2000. It became the first animated feature-length movie in the IMAX format. Fantasia 2000 was opened in the United States on June 16, 2000. It has earned $90.8 million in gross revenue worldwide.

Rhapsody in Blue

Rhapsody in Blue is the first Fantasia segment with music from the American composer George Gershwin. It originated in 1992 when director and animator Eric Goldberg approached Al Hirschfeld about the idea of an animated short set to Gershwin's composition in the style of Hirschfeld's illustrations. Hirschfeld agreed to serve as artistic consultant and allowed the animators to use and adapt his previous works for the segment. Goldberg's wife Susan was art director. Duke is named after jazz artist Duke Ellington. The bottom of his toothpaste tube reads "NINA", an Easter egg referencing Hirschfeld's daughter Nina. Rachel was designed after the Goldbergs' daughter and John is based on animation historian and author John Culhane and Hirschfeld's caricature of Alexander Woollcott. Goldberg took Hirschfeld's original illustration of Gershwin and animated it to make him play the piano. Featured in the crowd emerging from the hotel are depictions of Brooks Atkinson and Hirschfeld, along with his wife Dolly Haas. The segment was completed two months ahead of schedule from February 1999 to April 1999. The animators from the production hiatus of Kingdom of the Sun were reassigned to work on the segment. Despite this, the sequence was so chromatically complex that the rendering process using the CAPS system delayed work on Tarzan.

Other websites

• Fantasia 2000 on IMDb