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.
Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (French: Arthur et la vengeance de Maltazard, also known in North America as Arthur and the Invisibles 2 or simply Arthur 2) is a 2009 English-language French animated/live-action feature film co-written, co-produced and directed by Luc Besson, based on his novel of the same title and starring Freddie Highmore and Mia Farrow. EuropaCorp produced the film, which is the second in Besson's Arthur series, following "Arthur and the Invisibles". The film received generally negative reviews by critics. It was a success in France but, due to its predecessor's failure at the American box office, was released direct-to-video in the United States. It performed disappointingly in the rest of the world. As a result, the film and its sequel, "", generated huge money losses for EuropaCorp.