Happily N'Ever After

This article is about the 2006 animated film. For similarly named topics, see Happily Ever After and Happily Never After.
Happily N'Ever After
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPaul J. Bolger
Yvette Kaplan
Written byRob Moreland
Based on
The Fairy Tales
by
Produced byJohn H. Williams
Starring
CinematographyDavid Dulac
Edited byRingo Hess
Music byPaul Buckley
Production
companies
Distributed byLionsgate[1]
Release dates
  • December 16, 2006 (2006-12-16) (Westwood, California)
  • January 5, 2007 (2007-01-05) (United States)
Running time
87 minutes[1]
Countries
LanguageEnglish
Budget$47 million[3]
Box office$38 million[3]

Happily N'Ever After is a 2006 animated fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Paul J. Bolger, produced by John H. Williams, and written by Rob Moreland. It is inspired by fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen and loosely based on the 1999 animated German television series Simsala Grimm.[4][5] The title is the opposite of a stock phrase, happily ever after; the name is contracted with an apostrophe between the N and the E. The film stars the voices of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Andy Dick, Wallace Shawn, Patrick Warburton, George Carlin, and Sigourney Weaver. The film was one of Carlin's final works before his death.

Lionsgate theatrically released Happily N'Ever After in the United States on January 5, 2007. The film was panned by critics and grossed $38 million worldwide against a production budget of $47 million, becoming a box-office bomb. Despite its negative reviews and poor performance, it was followed by a direct-to-video sequel in 2009 called Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White—Another Bite @ the Apple.

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  2. ^ a b "HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER (2006)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Happily N'Ever After Office Data". The Numbers. Nash Information Services. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2011.
  4. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2009). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (3rd ed.). New York: Checkmark Books. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-8160-6600-1.
  5. ^ 'Happily N'ever After': John H. Williams' Return to Farcical Fairy Tales Archived 2022-11-29 at the Wayback Machine. Animation World Network. Retrieved 18 June 2022.