The Book of Life (2014)

Released: 2014-10-01 Duration: 1hr 35min

Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy

Rating 7.5

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Overview

The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.

Production Companies

Reel FX Creative Studios

20th Century Fox Animation

Chatrone

Additional Info

Budget	$50,000,000.00
Revenue	$97,437,106.00
Original Language	en
Popularity	36.885

Directed By

Jorge R. Gutierrez

Crew

Producer
Guillermo del Toro

Director
Jorge R. Gutierrez

Writer
Jorge R. Gutierrez

Lighting Artist
Tyler DeLisle

Animation
Andy Hass

Animation
Steve Cunningham

Score Engineer
Devin Roth

Animation
Dixie Pizani

Animation
Travis Tohill

Character Designer
Tom Caulfield

Writer
Doug Langdale

Editor
Ahren Shaw

Original Music Composer
Gustavo Santaolalla

Casting
Christian Kaplan

Producer
Brad Booker

Production Design
Simon Valdimir Varela

ADR & Dubbing
Carlos Sotolongo

Co-Producer
Matthew Teevan

Additional Music
Jorge R. Gutierrez

Additional Music
Germaine Franco

Associate Editor
Joseph R. Thygesen

Producer
Carina Schulze

Production Manager
Kathy Cavaiola

Visual Development
Rustam Hasanov

Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Mark Mangini

Executive Producer
Aron Warner

Playback Singer
Jorge R. Gutierrez

ADR Editor
Christopher T. Welch

Orchestrator
Germaine Franco

Animation
Wing Ni Chung

Production Design
Paul Sullivan

Production Supervisor
Kathy Cavaiola

Producer
Aaron Berger

Associate Producer
Chris DiGiovanni

Executive Producer
Cary Granat

Additional Music
William G. Parker

Associate Producer
Heather M. Drummons

Executive Producer
Chuck Peil

Co-Producer
Geoffrey Stott

Associate Producer
Greg Lyons

Additional Editing
Steven Liu

Animation
Manuel Almela

Animation
Naveen Syed

Animation
Matt Thurman

Art Direction
Paul Sullivan

Animation
Andrew Ford

Animation
David B. Vallone

Animation
Derek Esparza

Animation
Don Dixon

Animation
Robert Fox

Conceptual Design
Rustam Hasanov

Animation
Travis Simon

Art Department Coordinator
David Mouser

Compositors
Lori Williams

Foley
John Guentner

Lighting Artist
Kathleen Tran

Music Editor
Charles Martin Inouye

Music Supervisor
John Houlihan

Production Accountant
Lara Blasingame

Production Coordinator
Rob Thomson

Sound Designer
Stephen P. Robinson

Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Beau Borders

VFX Artist
Anthony Fung

Executive In Charge Of Production
Paul Ohrt

Lighting Artist
Billy Burson III

Modeling
Ryan Trammell

Orchestrator
James McWilliam

Orchestrator
Rick Giovinazzo

Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Andy King

VFX Artist
Jake Rusch

Visual Development
Alison Donato

Animation
Emilie Goulet

Animation
Gizem Gülen

Animation
Morgan R. Kelly

Animation
Pete Paquette

Foley
James Ashwill

Modeling
Tom M. Jordan

Musician
Chris Garrick

Musician
Rachel Bolt

Scoring Mixer
Casey Stone

Conceptual Design
Tod Polson

Lead Animator
Jason Petrocelli

Lighting Artist
Nicholas Naugle

Production Coordinator
Bridget Kieffer

Sound Designer
Tim Walston

Sound Effects Editor
Masanobu 'Tomi' Tomita

ADR & Dubbing
Michael Miller

ADR Editor
Julie Feiner

Animation
Brad Faucheux

Animation
Chris Street

Animation
Luis Martinez

Animation
Ray Chase

CG Supervisor
Glo Minaya

Character Designer
Andy Bialk

Continuity
Tiffany Renee Shreve

Lighting Artist
Keaton Kramer

Production Coordinator
Andrew McTighe

Conductor
Tim Davies

Editorial Coordinator
Lilly Sechrist

Foley
Dan O'Connell

Compositors
Kevin Lu

Lighting Artist
Randall Manning

Musician
Roger Linley

Musician
Steve Mair

Sound Effects Editor
Scott Wolf

Animation
Kathy Zielinski

Assistant Editor
Ian McNeny

Character Designer
Carlos Luzzi

Character Designer
Jorge R. Gutierrez

First Assistant Editor
Todd Zongker

Foley
John T. Cucci

Lead Animator
Eric Burnett

Lighting Artist
Nick Shirsty

ADR & Dubbing
Roy Latham

Animation
Alexandre F. Kümpel

Animation
Shaun Freeman

Lighting Artist
Peter McCord

Sound Effects Editor
Peter Zinda

Animation
Dorian Soto

Animation Production Assistant
Lea Kocurek

Foley
Blake Collins

Lighting Artist
Alberto Beguerie

Lighting Artist
Esther Parobek

Modeling
Liz Paradis

Orchestrator
Ryan Humphrey

Production Manager
Katie Hasleham

Sound Recordist
Frank Pittenger

Special Effects Supervisor
Erich Turner

Lead Animator
Jackie Koehler

Lead Animator
Vitor Vilela

Lighting Artist
Daniel Guindi

Lighting Artist
Garrett Moring

Modeling
Connor McCampbell

Musician
Nicholas Bucknall

Set Dressing Artist
Sean Ryan McEwan

Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Andy Koyama

Compositors
Jake Albers

Lead Animator
Byron Slaybaugh

Lighting Artist
Ed Whetstone

Supervising Animator
Louis Jones

Lead Animator
Jess Morris

Modeling
Elias Glasch

Music Editor
Jeff Carson

Musician
David Arch

Animation
Angelo Sta. Catalina

Animation
Robert Lazzarini

CG Supervisor
Mike Fortner

First Assistant Sound Editor
Jessie Pariseau

Modeling
Sing Khamnouane

VFX Artist
Chas Naylor

Character Designer
Sandra Equihua

Digital Intermediate
Zara Park

Lighting Artist
Michael Cacciamani

Lighting Artist
Robyn Ducharme

Lighting Artist
Thomas DesJardins

Orchestrator
Susie Bench

Still Photographer
Kevin Estrada

VFX Artist
Chris Rasch

Animation
Monica Aston

Animation Department Coordinator
Allison Harbin

Associate Editor
Amy Grieshaber

Casting Associate
Micah Dahlberg

Digital Intermediate
Craig Price

Layout
Lorenzo Russell Bambino

Lead Animator
Eric Drobile

Orchestrator
Julia Zuzanna Sokolowska

Rigging Supervisor
Eric Baker

Temp Sound Editor
T.J. Callaway

Assistant Editor
Johnson Cheng

Character Designer
Sylvain Deboissy

Executive Producer
Pete Herzog

Lead Animator
Ernesto Bottger

Visual Development
Shane Richardson

Visual Development
Yashar Kassai

Post Production Supervisor
Jonas Thaler

Production Coordinator
Kyle Lawson

Sound Recordist
Jesse Johnstone

Supervising Animator
Bill Haller

VFX Artist
Shu Liu

VFX Artist
Will Nicholson

VFX Supervisor
Augusto Schillaci

Visual Development
Sarah Marino

VFX Artist
Connon Carey

Visual Development
Elise Hatheway

Visual Development
Jordan Lamarre-Wan

Visual Effects Coordinator
Ellyn Klein Golub

Visual Development
Frederick J. Gardner III

Visual Development
Bryan Gregg LaShelle

Visual Effects
William Scott McCullough

VFX Artist
N. Joseph Burnette

Modeling
Lino Cristofaro

Musician
Mark Berrow

Musician
Roger Argente

Production Manager
Jasmine Johnson

Supervising Sound Editor
Scott Martin Gershin

VFX Artist
Ehsan Parizi

VFX Artist
Nick Ilyin

Visual Development
Dustin D'Arnault

Visual Development
Travis Koller

TOP CAST

Diego Luna

Manolo (voice)

Channing Tatum

Joaquin (voice)

Zoe Saldaña

Maria (voice)

Christina Applegate

Mary Beth (voice)

Eugenio Derbez

Chato (voice)

Cheech Marin

Pancho Rodriguez (voice)

Gabriel Iglesias

Pepe Rodriguez (voice)

Ron Perlman

Xibalba (voice)

Kate del Castillo

La Muerte (voice)

Ana de la Reguera

Carmen Sánchez (voice)

Dan Navarro

Chakal (voice)

Ice Cube

Candle Maker (voice)

Hector Elizondo

Carlos Sanchez (voice)

Danny Trejo

Skeleton Luis (voice)

Carlos Alazraqui

General Posada / Dali / Chuy (voice)

Emil-Bastien Bouffard

Young Manolo (voice)

Elijah Rodriguez

Young Joaquin

Genesis Ochoa

Young Maria (voice)

Plácido Domingo

Skeleton Jorge (voice)

Grey DeLisle

Grandmother (voice) (as Grey Griffin)

Trey Bumpass

Goth Kid / Orphan

Miguel Sandoval

Land of the Remembered Captain (voice)

Ben Gleib

Goya / Dali (voice)

Ricardo El Mandril Sanchez

Pablo Rodriguez (voice)

Ishan Sharma

Sanjay

Jorge R. Gutierrez

Skeleton Carmelo (voice)

Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

Adelita / Nina (voice)

Kennedy Peil

Sasha (voice)

Sandra Equihua

Scardelita (voice)

Callahan Clark

Jane (voice)

Gunnar Sizemore

Ignacio (voice)

Angélica María

Sister Ana (voice)

Eric Bauza

Father Domingo / Cave Guardian (voice)

Aron Warner

Thomas (voice)

Sandra Echeverría

Claudia (voice)

Tonita Castro

La Muerte as Old Woman (voice)

Troy Evans

Old Man Hemingway (voice)

Guillermo del Toro

Land of the Remembered Captain's Wife (voice)

Brad Booker

Conductor (voice)

Rosemary Alexander

Additional Voices (voice)

Steve Alterman

Additional Voices (voice)

Eva Bella

Additional Voices (voice)

Madison Carlon

Additional Voices (voice)

Vicki Davis

Additional Voices (voice)

Moosie Drier

Additional Voices (voice)

Cullen McCarthy

Additional Voices (voice)

David Michie

Additional Voices (voice)

Michelle Moores

Additional Voices (voice)

Jonathan Nichols-Navarro

Additional Voices (voice)

Al Rodrigo

Additional Voices (voice)

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