El Americano: The Movie

El Americano The Movie simply known as El Americano is a 2016 3D MexicanAmerican computer animated adventure family action comedy film produced by Animex, Olmos Productions, and Phil Roman Entertainment. It is directed by Ricardo Arnaiz and exDisney animator, Mike Kunkel. The film features an ensemble voice cast of mostly Hispanic American and Mexican actors led by Rico Rodriguez, Edward James Olmos, Cheech Marin, Kate del Castillo, Paul Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias, Erik Estrada, and Lisa Kudrow. The first major animated coproduction between studios in Mexico and the United States, it is also the first international and CG production for Mexican animation studio, Animex. FilmSharks International announced that they have acquired the films international rights. The film was released in Mexico onJanuary 2016, distributed by Never Landing Digital Distribution, while in the United States, distributed by Freestyle Releasing, it will be released in the Winter season of 2016.

Production began on January 2011 when director and Animex founder, Ricardo Arnaiz, became interested in doing an American coproduction after the boxoffice disappointment of Nikt at his home country, knowing that U.S.produced films do better at the Mexican film market. The idea of the films plot was brought up when he visited the United States and met producer Gerry Cardoso, who brought up the idea of birds, traveling from Spain to Mexico. Arnaiz insisted to change the setting to the United States. I said it would be great to make them go from Mexico to the United States, so we started from that, said Arnaiz. We were very careful to be respectful of both countries. We wanted to tell a story about how borders are just a line on a map and when you are honest and you do things the right way there are a lot of possibilities out there for everybody. Bringing the project to the United States was one of the biggest challenges in the films development.He later met actor Edward James Olmos, when he found that Olmos was a fan of La Leyenda de la Nahuala and a hit. After reading the script, Olmos agreed to join the films production team and voice cast. Were delighted to be working with Edward James Olmos and his production company here in the US. Its a story we have been working on for the last three years and we feel we have a really strong team in place to execute this film scheduled in 2013. ........

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