The Magic Pudding (film)

The Magic Pudding
Region 4 DVD cover
Directed byKarl Zwicky
Screenplay byHarry Cripps
Greg Haddrick
Simon Hopkinson
Based onThe Magic Pudding
by Norman Lindsay
Produced byGerry Travers
Paddy Conroy
Bruce Davey
Carmel Travers
Edward Trost
StarringSam Neill
Geoffrey Rush
Hugo Weaving
Jack Thompson
Toni Collette
John Cleese
Edited byRichard Hindley
Music byChris Harriott
Production
companies
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • 14 December 2000 (2000-12-14)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$12 million (estimated)
Box officeA$1.1 million

The Magic Pudding is a 2000 Australian animated musical adventure comedy film loosely adapted from the 1918 book of the same name by Norman Lindsay.[1] Directed by Karl Zwicky, the film features a voice cast of well known actors including Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Toni Collette and John Cleese.

The film was produced by Energee Entertainment, an Australian studio that also created the Wicked! series. Energee shut down in 2002 due to financial losses from The Magic Pudding.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Western Animation/The Magic Pudding".
  2. ^ Torre, Dan; Torre, Lienors (2 November 2018). Australian Animation: An International History - Dan Torre, Lienors Torre - Google Books. ISBN 9783319954929. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Magic Pudding a Wicked shame". Afr.com. 18 October 2002. Retrieved 9 July 2022.