When was "Arthur Christmas", the film that Peter de Sève designed the characters for, released in the US?
Peter de Sève Peter de Sève is an American artist who has worked in the illustration and animation fields. He has drawn many covers for the magazine "The New Yorker". As a character designer, he worked on the characters of "A Bug's Life", "Finding Nemo", "Robots", the four "Ice Age" films (including Scrat), and on the main animal character E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand) in the 2011 Easter themed comedy film "Hop". Most recently, he designed the characters for "Arthur Christmas", for which he was nominated for Annie Award. He received the National Cartoonists Society Magazine Illustration Award for 2000. He is part of the Directors Collective Hornet Incorporated company.
The Nut Job The Nut Job is a 2014 3D computer-animated heist-comedy film directed by Peter Lepeniotis, who also wrote the film with Lorne Cameron. It stars the voices of Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Gabriel Iglesias, Jeff Dunham, Liam Neeson and Katherine Heigl. Stephen Lang, Maya Rudolph and Sarah Gadon also star in supporting roles. The film is based on Lepeniotis' 2005 short animated film "Surly Squirrel". Produced by Gulfstream Pictures, Redrover International and ToonBox Entertainment, it was released in the United States on January 17, 2014, by Open Road Films. With a budget of $42.8 million, it is the most expensive animated film co-produced in South Korea. The film grossed $64.3 million in North America, for a worldwide total of $120.8 million.