For this purpose, he formed in June 2013 a Fox-based production company, named BottleCap Productions.Ĭurrently, Carlos Saldanha is a director who is directing the film "Rio, Eu te Amo", and be working on the film based on the History of Ferdinand. In October 2012, Saldanha signed a five-year exclusive deal with 20th Century Fox to develop and produce animated and live-action projects. Due to the success of Rio, Carlos Saldanha works in sequence, Rio 2, which premieres on April 11, 2014, in the U.S. Rio competed for an Oscar for Best Original Music with music Real in Rio but ended up losing. The movie grossed a reported $484 million worldwide. Saldanha, who felt that Rio had never been fully portrayed on film, felt a responsibility to travel to the city with the other animators so that they could accurately capture Rio's unique environment and habitats. Desiring a change of location after directing three films set in icy locales, Saldanha's next project was the 2011 film Rio, which is set in Saldanha's hometown of Rio de Janeiro. He would later direct the 2009 sequel, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. After co-directing the 2005 film Robots he broke his previous March opening record with 2006, Ice Age sequel, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, which Saldanha directed by himself. The film, which features the voices of Ray Romano, Denis Leary, and John Lequizamo, became an immediate smash and established Blue Sky as a competitive force within the computer animation field. The movie was a success, with an opening weekend gross of $46.3 million, the best March opening ever. The company’s (Blue Sky Studios) first release was 2002’s Ice Age, with Carlos, along with his buddy Chris Wedge, tapped to take the directorial reigns on the expensive and ambitious project. In 1997, Blue Sky began focusing exclusively on special effects and Carlos worked behind-the-scenes on such movies as 1997’s The Fairy Godmother and 1999’s Fight Club. It was also at School that Saldanha met MFA instructor and future film directing partner Chris Wedge, who invited Saldanha to join Wedge's company Blue Sky Studios. Carlos was immediately put to work as an animator on Blue Sky’s various projects, with the company, in its early days, best known for cranking out commercials and short films. In 1991, Carlos arrived in New York City to attend the prestigious School of Visual Arts, where he completed two well-received shorts and earned a degree in animation. Carlos would spend hours perfecting his cartoonish drawing technique, and he quickly realized that he had to move to the States to pursue animation as a career. Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saldanha enjoyed a fairly typical childhood that was eventually defined by his passion for animation.
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