This is a list of trivia the 2020 film, The Croods: A New Age.
Trivia[]
- The Croods is DreamWorks' sixth film to become a franchise, after Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon and Trolls.
- This also marks DreamWorks Animation's third trilogy to have each installment distributed by a different studio over the years. (20th century distributed the first movie in 2013)
- This is the sixth Franchise in total DreamWorks owns, as Trolls was brought from Dam Things in 2010.
- This is the third DreamWorks Animation sequel not to have its music score composed by the same composer as its predecessor after Penguins of Madagascar (which had its music score composed by Lorne Balfe) and Trolls World Tour (which had its music score composed by Theodore Shapiro); Alan Silvestri composed the music score for the first film while Mark Mothersbaugh takes over for this film (making it the first time the latter has ever composed a music score for a DreamWorks Animation film).
- Thus, it is also the sixth DreamWorks Animation film not to be composed by Harry Gregson-Williams, Hans Zimmer, John Powell, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Henry Jackman, Lorne Balfe, Steve Mazzaro, Theodore Shapiro, Daniel Pemberton, or Stephanie Econnomu as the film was composed by Mark Mothersbaugh; the first three being 2005's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (which was composed by Julian Nott), 2012's Rise of the Guardians (which was composed by Alexandre Desplat), 2013's The Croods (which was composed by Alan Silvestri), and 2014's Mr. Peabody & Sherman, and 2016's Trolls (which was composed by Christophe Beck) .
- Initially was cancelled per request of Universal Pictures in November 2016 based on its production problems, but was put back in production in September 2017.
- The first animated sequel for Nicolas Cage (Grug).
- The longest wait for a sequel to a DreamWorks Animation film to date, being released 7½ years after The Croods (2013), exceeding the 5 year gap between Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) and Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016).
- This will be the first time Leslie Mann and Catherine Keener worked together since The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005).
- This will be Leslie Mann's fifth animated movie after Rio (2011), Rio 2 (2014), ParaNorman (2012) and Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014).
- Peter Dinklage's 4th animated film, after Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), The Angry Birds Movie (2016) and The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), the former of which also being a film set in the Stone Age.
- Ryan Reynolds's 3rd DreamWorks Animation film, after The Croods (2013) and Turbo (2013).
- DreamWorks Animation's seventh follow-up to change directors after the last two Shrek sequels, Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Puss in Boots (2011), Penguins of Madagascar (2014), and Trolls World Tour (2020), the latter of which also released in 2020.
- Catherine Keener's 3rd animated film, after The Croods (2013) and Incredibles 2 (2018).
- Cloris Leachman's 2nd and final animated film, after The Croods before she died on January 26, 2021 from natural causes.
- This is DreamWorks Animation's first film to be released in December since The Prince of Egypt (1998).
- The third Universal's computer-animated film to be released in December, after The Tale of Despereaux (2008) and Sing (2016).
- This is Joel Crawford's film directorial debut.
- Producer Mark Swift's 5th DreamWorks Animation film, after Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), Penguins of Madagascar (2014), and Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017).
- This is Nicolas Cage's third sequel film in his career, after National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011).
- This is DreamWorks Animation's 14th film to not have a co-director after Shrek the Third (2007), Shrek Forever After (2010), Megamind (2010), Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Puss in Boots (2011), Rise of the Guardians (2012), Turbo (2013), Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), Home (2015), The Boss Baby (2017), Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017), and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019).
- The sixth of Universal Pictures' animated films to be produced in 2:35.1, after The Tale of Despereaux (2008), Despicable Me 3 (2017), The Grinch (2018), How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019), and Trolls World Tour (2020).