It was nominated for the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Although it received generally positive reviews, the film performed poorly in the United States box office, costing $140 million to create while earning $38 million in the United States and Canada and just shy of $110 million worldwide. The musical score was composed by James Newton Howard, while the songs were written and performed by John Rzeznik. Treasure Planet features the voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Roscoe Lee Browne,and Emma Thompson. The film was co-written, co-produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, who had pitched the concept for the film at the same time that they pitched The Little Mermaid.
The film employs a novel technique of hand-drawn 2D traditional animation set atop 3D computer animation.
The 43rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, the film is a science fiction adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel Treasure Island and was the first film to be released simultaneously in regular and IMAX theaters. Treasure Planet is a 2002 animated science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002. Jump to: navigation, search Treasure Planet