The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

This article is about the 2012 film. For the book on which the film is based, see The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists.
The Pirates!
In an Adventure with Scientists!
British theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Lord
Screenplay byGideon Defoe
Based onThe Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
by Gideon Defoe
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyFrank Passingham
Edited byJustin Krish
Music byTheodore Shapiro
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing[2]
Release dates
  • 28 March 2012 (2012-03-28) (United Kingdom)
  • 27 April 2012 (2012-04-27) (United States)
Running time
88 minutes[3]
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States[4]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$55 million[2]
Box office$123 million[2]

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (released overseas as The Pirates! Band of Misfits) is a 2012 animated swashbuckler comedy film produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation in association with Aardman Animations, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The second and final collaborative project between Sony and Aardman, it is Aardman's first book-based movie as well as their first stop-motion feature film since Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), and Sony Pictures Entertainment's first stop-motion film. The film was directed by Peter Lord, co-directed by Jeff Newitt (in his feature directorial debut), and written by Gideon Defoe, based on Defoe's 2004 novel The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (the first book from The Pirates! series). The film stars the voices of Hugh Grant, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Salma Hayek, and Jeremy Piven, and follows a crew of amateur pirates in their attempt to win the Pirate of the Year competition.[5][6][7]

The Pirates! was distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing and was released on 28 March 2012 in the United Kingdom, and on 27 April 2012 in the United States.[8] The film received generally positive reviews,[9] and was a modest box office success, earning $123 million against a budget as high as $55 million.[2][10] The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was the second film from Sony Pictures Animation to be nominated after Surf's Up.

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  5. ^ "The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
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  8. ^ "Pirate Captain and his crew wish you a happy Chinese New Year". Sony Pictures Animation. Facebook. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
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  10. ^ "2012 Recap (cont.): Losers". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 4 January 2013.