'Ice Age' going accept road tour

"Ice Age: Continental Drift" Fox is striking the street using its "Ice Age" franchise. With three animated photos getting gained $1.9 billion worldwide, the studio has joined with Stage Entertainment Touring Prods. to make a live reveal that will bow in November 2012 and crisscross the planet for 5 years. Tour begins at London's Wembley Arena before visiting 30 nations. As Fox readies a 4th film, "Ice Age: Continental Drift," skedded to unspool This summer 6, the studio continues to be wanting to find new methods to turn the franchise right into a brand outdoors of megaplexes and it fresh in families' minds -- especially overseas, in which the perf from the third entry surprised the biz in areas including Italia and Russia.Altogether, the "Ice Age" franchise has gained a lot more than $4 billion in B.O., home theatre and consumer items sales, based on Fox. The studio broadcast the property's first TV holiday special, "Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas," on Thanksgiving evening, producing a couple.3 rating in grown ups 18-49. The films' primary figures are voiced by Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott and Full Latifah. "Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure" is "a part of our lengthy-term franchise technique for the company,Inch stated Jeffrey Godsick, prexy of Fox Consumer Items. "We are recognizing our movies are popular culture occasions. Like a property, ('Ice Age') really resonates with individuals. We are in a point now where we have seen every component of 'Ice Age' do very well,Inch and also the stage version will enable fans to "really get submerged on the planet where one can feel, you are able to touch." Robert Marick, professional Vice president of Fox Consumer Items, added the "Ice Age" show "furthers our resolve for getting the most effective in live entertainment to fans, and that we could not think about a much better partner to blaze this new frontier with than Stage Entertainment." "Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure" will feature the franchise's figures inside a new story, not associated with the flicks, and mix roller skating, aerial arts, film and puppetry. Guy Caron, behind the Cirque du Soleil productions "Ka" and "Drailon," will helm the show, with different story and including music and lyrics by Ella Louise Allaire and Martin The almighty Ferguson, whose credits include Cirque du Soleil shows, "Holiday on Ice" and APM Music. Costumes is going to be created by Michael Curry, additionally a Cirque du Soleil vet, whose work continues to be featured in Olympic games events. Development around the production continues to be continuing, using the studio getting approved the idea but overall designs still being exercised. Last Century Fox Consumer Items brokered the offer with and it is controlling the development for that studio. Founded by Joop van living room Ende in 1998, Stage Entertainment is better noted for creating the most popular show "Holiday on Ice" in Europe but has additionally done "Tarzan," "The Lion King," "Aida," "Beauty and also the Animal" and "Senior High School Musical" with Disney Theatrical Prods "Mamma Mia!" with Littlestar "Felines," "Phantom from the Opera," "Jesus Celebrity" and "Evita" with Andrew Lloyd Webber/Really Helpful Group "Oliver" and "L'ensemble des Miserables" with Cameron Mackintosh and "Dirty Dancing" with Jacobsen Entertainment, among other shows. Company claims a lot more than 14 million people visit Stage Entertainment's shows every year. "The bridge between 'Holiday on Ice' and 'Ice Age' is apparent," stated Stage Entertainment representative Sjoerd Unger. "It had been the beginning reason for thinking about steps to make an active show from an animated movie. But (the 'Ice Age' show) will not be considered a show where we simply put folks an outfit and move them around. We desired to develop it in an exceedingly artistic way where we bring the figures to existence." Following the U.K., the "Ice Age" arena show will visit Germany and also the relaxation of Europe for 3 years, before playing within the U.S. for 2 years. It'll visit South Usa, Australia and Asia throughout that point, too. "This can be a large part of the introduction of we and perfectly fits our ambition to create the very best arena shows for any worldwide audience, working most abundant in professional partners," stated Caspar Gerwe, Boss of Stage Entertainment Touring Prods. With "Ice Age," Fox becomes the most recent studio to show among its top qualities right into a live touring show. DreamWorks Animation is preparing to premiere its "How you can Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular" from Melbourne, Australia, in March, as the toon studio's DreamWorks Theatricals division is developing "Kung Fu Panda: The World Spectacular" in China for any fall launch. A Button House presently has "Disney on Ice" and "Phineas and Ferb Live!" on tour. And also the BBC's arena show in line with the docu series "Walking With Dinosaurs" continues to be touring the planet since 2007, playing well with your family aud. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com