Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is a 2009 American computer-animatedadventurecomedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the third installment in the Ice Age series and the sequel to Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006). It was directed by Carlos Saldanha and co-directed by Mike Thurmeier. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary reprise their roles from the first two films and Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, and Josh Peck reprise their roles from The Meltdown, with Simon Pegg joining them in the role of a weasel named Buck. The story has Sid the Sloth being taken by a female Tyrannosaurus after stealing her eggs, leading the rest of the herd to rescue him in a tropical lost world inhabited by dinosaurs beneath the ice. The film was released on July 1, 2009, becoming the firstIce Agefilm and the first 20th Century Fox film to be released in 3-D.[2]Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, it earned $886.7 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossingIce Agefilm, the highest grossing film from Blue Sky Studios overall, and the second-highest-grossing animated film at the time.[3][4]A sequel, titledIce Age: Continental Drift, was released in 2012, and another sequel, titledIce Age: Collision Course, was released in 2016.
