Monkeybone (2001)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2001
Running Times: 92 mins (USA) 93 mins (Australia)
Format:
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Sound: Dolby Digital

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: 1492 Pictures / Twentieth Century Fox / Twitching Image Studio
Executive Producers: Chris Columbus, Sam Hamm, Lata Ryan, Henry Selick
Producer: Michael Barnathan, Mark Radcliffe
Associate Producer: Paula DuPré Pesman
Production Co-Ordinator (Captive Audience Productions): Jill Fischer (uncredited)

SCRIPT
Script: Sam Hamm
Comic: Dark Town by Kaja Blackley

DIRECTION
Director: Henry Selick
2nd Unit Directors: Dan Bradley, Peter Crosman
1st Assistant Director: Mike Topoozian
2nd Assistant Director: Bob Wagner

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Andrew Dunn
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Philip C. Pfeiffer
Camera Operator: Mitch Dubin
1st Assistant Camera: John Grillo
2nd Unit 1st Assistant Camera: Evan A. Nesbitt
Electrician: Victor Galvis
Stills: Peter Iovino
Colour: DeLuxe

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Jon Poll, Nicholas C. Smith, Mark Warner
1st Assistant Editor: Craig Alpert
Negative Cutter: Gary Burritt

MUSIC
Music Supervisor: Dawn Soler
Music: Anne Dudley
Music Editor: Michael Connell
Score Mock Ups: Kenneth Burgomaster

SOUND
Sound Designer: Steve Boeddeker
Assistant Sound Designer: Timothy Nielsen
Production Sound Mixer: Geoffrey Patterson
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Brad Sherman
Supervising Sound Editor: Tim Holland
Supervising Assistant Sound Editor: Addison Teague
Assistant ADR Editor: Michael Axinn
Foley Editor: Jonathan Null

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Michael Mills, Ben Nye Jr
Costume Designer: Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
Assistant Costume Designer: David Le Vey

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Greg Cannom
Creature Effects: Keith Vanderlaan's Captive Audience Productions; Steve Johnson's XFX, Inc
Creature Effects Producer (Captive Audience Productions): Keith VanderLaan
Mold Department (Steve Johnson's XFX): Brent Baker, Michael Del Rossa (uncredited), Damian Fisher, Joe Gomez (uncredited), Chris Grossnickle (uncredited), Greg Johnson, Mike McFarlane (uncredited), Steve Newburn (uncredited), Thomas Ovenshire (uncredited), Matt Singer, Brian Van Dorn

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Centropolis Effects
Visual Effects Supervisors: Peter Crosman, Adam Howard, Pete Kozachik
Visual Effects Executive Producer (Centropolis Effects): Mark Franco
Visual Effects Head Of Production (Centropolis Effects): Aaron Dem
Visual Effects Producer (Centropolis Effects): Chris Del Conte
Visual Effects Producer: Terry Clotiaux
Visual Effects Production Supervisor: Charles Lem
Visual Effects Co-Ordinators: Tricia Mulgrew, Laura Schultz
Lead Animator: Anthony Scott
Animator: Justin Kohn
Visual Effects Motion Control Technician: Christian T. Andrews
Visual Effects Editor: Michael Backauskas
Assistant Visual Effects Editor: Linda Renaud
Stop Motion Animation: Paul Berry
Digital Compositor (CFX): Robert Cribbett
Digital Compositors: Don Greenberg, Bob Wiatr
Digital Effects Compositors: Brian Hanable, Janet Quen
Visual Effects Composite Artist: CFX LA: Greg Groenekamp
Lead Compositor: Giant Killer Robots: Daniel P. Rosen
Digital Artist (CFX): Jon Doyle
Digital Artist: Fortunato Frattasio
Digital Effects Artist (Pacific Title Digital): Jeff Wells
Miniatures Director Of Photography: Eric Swenson
Visual Effects Production Assistant: Daniel Kutner
Visual Effects Stage Manager: Kirk Scott
Special Effects: Full Scale Effects Inc; Howard Granite Films; Look! Effects Inc; M5 Industries
Special Effects Supervisor: Chuck E. Stewart
2nd Unit Special Effects Supervisor: Dick Wood
Special Effects Technician: George Paine
Special Effects Assistant: Ian Eyre
Shop Foreman: David Peterson
Special Effects Shop Fabricator: Tuck John Porter
Key Production Assistant (Effects Unit): Trista Gormley
Production Assistant (Effects Unit): Scott Trimble
Lead Pupeteer: Pons Maar
Puppeteer: Keith Vanderlaan
Operations Manager (Captive Audience Productions): Harvey Lowry

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Bill Boes
Art Directors: John Chichester, Bruce Robert Hill
Set Decorator: Jackie Carr
Set Designers: Everett Chase, Jann K. Engel, A. Todd Holland, Martin Mervel, Jeff Ozimek, Hugo Santiago
2nd Assistant Props: Melanie S. Chretin
Conceptual Artist: Mike Cachuela
Concept Artist: Peter Chan
Conceptual Illustrator: Guy Dyas
Storyboard Supervisor: Mike Cachuela
Storyboard Artists: Peter Chan, Anthony Zierhut

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Medic: Todd J. Adelman
Production Accountant: Martha Cronin
Production Accountant (Effects Unit): Jan Forman
1st Assistant Accountant: Shaun M. McGovern
Set Production Assistant: Chris Castaldi
Staff Assistant: Jason M. Hubbard
Assistant to Fonda: Gloria Tacchino
Choreography: Anne Fletcher
Catering Cook: J. Ben Sykes

LOCATIONS
Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA
Location Manager: Molly Allen

STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Dan Bradley
Main Stunt Double for Brenda Fraser: Joey Preston
Stunts: Scott Workman, John Escobar (uncredited)
Utility Stunts: Rob McCabe
2nd Unit Stunts Production Assistant: Chad Lemieux

CASTING
Casting: Sheila Jaffe, Georgianne Walken

CAST
Brendan Fraser (Stu Miley)
Bridget Fonda (Julie McElroy)
Chris Kattan (Organ Donor Stu)
Giancarlo Esposito (Hypnos)
Rose McGowan (Kitty)
John Turturro (voice of Monkeybone)
Dave Foley (Herb)
Whoopi Goldberg (Death)
Megan Mullally (Kimmy)
Lisa Zane (Medusa)
Sandra Thigpen (Alice)
Chris Hogan (Bazoom Toy representative)
Ted Rooney (Grim Reaper)
Scott Workman (Arnold the Super Reaper)
Roger Jackson (voice of Arnold the Super Reaper)
Veena Bishasha (statue woman)
M. Anthony Jackson (bug man)
Doug Jones (yeti)
Arturo Gil (rat guard)
Jody St. Michael (centaur)
Frit (Frat?) Fuller (3 headed devil)
Brian Steele (elephant god)
Leif Tilden (cyclops)
Tom Fisher (community service cigarette sweeper)
Jym Dingler (voice of community service cigarette sweeper)
Joseph Griffo (BBQ pig)
Kim Timbers-Patteri (wasp woman)
Lisa Ebeyer (Betty the Bovine)
Wayne D. Doba (scorpion)
Mark Viniello (Assbackward)
Leslie Hedger (voice of Assbackward)
Nathan Stein (sea monster)
Ed Holmes (Buffalo Kachina)
Toby Gleason (voice of Buffalo Kachina)
Joe Ranft (voice of Streetsquash Rabbit)
Bruce Lanoil (voice of Streetsquash Racoon)
Debi Durst (voice of Streetsquash Snake)
Phil Brotherton (voice of Subramansa)
Shawnee Free Jones (Lizzie Borden)
Ilia Volok (Rasputin)
Edgar Allan Poe IV (Edgar Allan Poe)
Claudette Mink (Typhoid Mary)
Jon Bruno (man in the dungeon)
Owen Masterson (Jack The Ripper)
Jen Sung Outerbridge (Attila the Hun)
Stephen King (himself)
Rachen Assapiomonwait (Korean father)
Bob Odenkirk (head surgeon)
Pat Kilbane (Burger God representative)
Wayne Wilderson (Hutch)
Amy Higgins (Clarissa)
Alan Gelfant (Dr Edelstein)
Kristin Norton (nurse)
Leon Laderach (surgeon in nightmare)
Christopher Franciosa (Reaper who takes Lulu)
Mary Stein (Lulu La Rue)
Randall Bosley (Fred)
Fred Pierce (Reaper in Death's office)
Harper Roisman (Earl Biegler)
Wendy Fowler (beautiful fan)
Jamie Donovan (reporter 1)
Skyler Marshall (janitor)
Brendan Burns (detective 1)
Jason Kravits (guest)
Lucy Butler (guest 2)
John Sylvain (driver)
Lou Romano (cop)
Paul Guiles (reporter 2)
Scott Rogers (surgeon 1)
Cris Thomas Palomino (surgeon 2)
Tony Panterra (surgeon 3)
Kristopher Logan (patron)
Mike Mitchell (George)
Tracy Zahoryin (model 1)
Sunshine Deia Tutt (model 2)
Jo Haugen Gash (model 3)
Lindsay Bryan (model 4)
Brooke Boisse (model 5)
Meron Abebe (model 6)
Mie Kringelbach (model 7)
Sybil Azur, Anne Fletcher, Diane Mizota (museum dancer)
Etty Lau (saxophonist)
LaTonya Holmes (percussionist)
Leslee Jean Matta (drummer)
Erica Gudis, Melinda Milton, Caroline A. Rice (party babe hybrids)
Allan Trautman (voice of BBQ Pig)
Harry Jay Knowles (Lucky)
Tom Tangen Burger God - uncredited)

Stand In For Brendan Fraser: Rob McCabe

France
Theatrical Distributor: UGC-Fox Distribution

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Australia
Rating: M

Singapore
Rating: PG

UK
Rating: 12

USA
Rating: PG-13 (for crude humor and some nudity)

TIMELINE

2001
March
1: Malaysia - theatrical release
1: UK - certified 12 by the BBFC (for theatrical release)
22: Germany - theatrical release
30: Denmark - theatrical release

April
6: Italy - theatrical release
11: USA - theatrical release

June
28: Netherlands - theatrical release

September
7: Sweden - theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

Bone 2 B Bad

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Untitled Monkeybone Project - working title
Dark Town - working title

MAGAZINES

Premiere (USA) vol.13 no.5 (January 2000) p.27
production notes (Fraser Shocks the Monkey by Alex Lewin)

live and animation; comas; nightmare; doctors; death personified; gymnasts; roller coasters; balloons; body swaps; hospitals; monkeys; museums; surrealism