A Bug's Life Enemy Molt Plastic Figure - about 6" inches tall

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A colony of ants, led by the elderly Queen and her daughter Princess Atta, live in the middle of a seasonally dry creekbed on a small hill known as "Ant Island". Every summer, they are forced to give food to a gang of grasshoppers, led by Hopper. When the trades indicated production on Antz, Lasseter, feeling betrayed, called Katzenberg and asked him bluntly if it were true, who in turn asked him where he had heard the rumor. Lasseter asked again, and Katzenberg admitted it was true. Lasseter raised his voice and would not believe Katzenberg's story that a development director had pitched him the idea long ago. Katzenberg claimed Antz came from a 1991 story pitch by Tim Johnson that was related to Katzenberg in October 1994. [10] Another source gives Nina Jacobson, one of Katzenberg's executives, as the person responsible for the Antz pitch. [24] Lasseter, who normally did not use profane language, cursed at Katzenberg and hung up the phone. [27] Lasseter recalled that Katzenberg began explaining that Disney was "out to get him" and that he realized that he was just cannon fodder in Katzenberg's fight with Disney. [10] [24] For his part, Katzenberg believed he was the victim of a conspiracy: Eisner had decided not to pay him his contract-required bonus, convincing Disney's board not to give him anything. [24] Katzenberg was further angered by the fact that Eisner scheduled Bugs to open the same week as The Prince of Egypt, which was then intended to be DreamWorks' first animated release. [24] [27] Lasseter grimly relayed the news to Pixar employees but kept morale high. Privately, Lasseter told other Pixar executives that he and Stanton felt terribly let down by Katzenberg. [24] A Bug's Life – IGN". Uk.ign.com. June 2, 1999. Archived from the original on March 2, 2016 . Retrieved November 29, 2013. a b c Brew, Simon (December 5, 2010). "Celebrating the Pixar end-credits bloopers". Den of Geek. Archived from the original on July 12, 2021 . Retrieved July 2, 2021.

A Bug's Life – The Tale". pixar.com. Pixar. Archived from the original on December 5, 2010 . Retrieved July 24, 2016. On May 19, 2009, the film was released on Blu-ray, [44] and then on 4K Blu-ray on March 3, 2020. [45] Reception [ edit ] Box office [ edit ]

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Fabrikant, Geraldine (December 28, 1998). " 'Prince of Egypt' Is No King at the Box-Office". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015 . Retrieved June 16, 2023. Jonathan Harris as Manny, an elderly English-accented praying mantis magician who is Gypsy's husband. A Bug's Life was the first home video release to be entirely created using a digital transfer. Every frame of animation was converted from the film's computer data, as opposed to the standard analog film-to-videotape transfer process. This allowed for the film's DVD release to retain its original 2.35:1 widescreen format. [38] [39] The DVD was released on April 20, 1999, alongside a VHS release which was presented in a standard 1.33:1 " fullscreen" format. The film's fullscreen transfer was performed by entirely "reframing" the film shot by shot; more than half of the film's footage was modified by Pixar animators to fit within the film's aspect ratio. Several characters and objects were moved closer together to avoid being cut out of frame. [38] The film's VHS release was the best-selling VHS in the United Kingdom, with 1.76 million units sold by the end of the year. [40] On August 1, 2000, these editions were re-released on VHS and DVD under the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection banner. [41] a b c d e f g h Burrows, Peter (November 23, 1998). " Antz vs. Bugs". Business Week. Archived from the original on November 28, 1999 . Retrieved March 7, 2017. It's Tough to be a Bug! | Walt Disney World Resort". Disney. Archived from the original on January 14, 2014 . Retrieved January 13, 2014.

a b Iverson, Jon (February 14, 1999). "A Bug's Life Becomes First All-Digital DVD Release". Sound And Vision. Archived from the original on January 8, 2018 . Retrieved January 6, 2018. a b c d e f Isaacson, Walter (2011). Steve Jobs. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 308. ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9. In the years since its release, A Bug's Life has been regarded by critics and fans to be a Pixar film that, in contrast to its successors, has become largely forgotten by audiences. [76] [77] [78] While recognized as solidifying Pixar's success, the film has been seen as the studio's sophomore slump in the wake of the critically successful Toy Story, [76] [77] [79] [80] [81] and inhibited by being released directly before the equally revered Toy Story 2. [76] Pixar's feud with DreamWorks as a result of Antz has also been regarded as a factor in A Bug's Life 's legacy. [81] [82] Guerrasio, Jason (June 18, 2021). "RANKED: Every Pixar movie from worst to best—including 'Luca' ". Business Insider. Archived from the original on March 11, 2022 . Retrieved July 2, 2021. Heller, Emily (March 3, 2020). "A bunch of Pixar movies, including Up and A Bug's Life, come to 4K Blu-ray". Polygon. Archived from the original on March 4, 2020 . Retrieved April 22, 2021.Production on A Bug's Life began shortly after the release of Toy Story in 1995. The ants in the film were redesigned to be more appealing, and Pixar's animation unit employed technical innovations in computer animation. Randy Newman composed the music for the film. During production, a controversial public feud erupted between Steve Jobs and Lasseter of Pixar and DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg due to the parallel production of his similar film Antz, which was released the same year. On November 23, 1999, a 2-disc Collector's Edition DVD was released. It was fully remastered in anamorphic widescreen and has substantial bonus features. In The Ant and the Grasshopper, a grasshopper squanders the spring and summer months on singing while the ants put food away for the winter; when winter comes, the hungry grasshopper begs the ants for food, but the ants turn him away. [9] Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft hit on the notion that the grasshopper could just take the food. [9] [13] After Stanton had completed a draft of the script, he came to doubt one of the story's main pillars – that the Circus Bugs that had come to the colony to cheat the ants would instead stay and fight. [12] He thought the Circus Bugs were unlikable characters as liars and that it was unrealistic for them to undergo a complete personality change. Also, no particularly good reason existed for Circus Bugs to stay with the ant colony during the second act. [14] Although the film was already far along, Stanton concluded that the story needed a different approach. [12]