Ice Age (franchise)

''Ice Age'' is an American media franchise created by Michael J. Wilson, centering on a group of mammals surviving the Pleistocene ice age. It consists of computer-animated films, short films, TV specials and a series of video games. The first five films were produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by its then parent company 20th Century Fox. The series features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, and Chris Wedge. The film series centers mainly on "the Herd," which since the first film consists of at least Manny (a woolly mammoth), Sid (a ground sloth), and Diego (a ''Smilodon''). The franchise also features mostly independent plotlines involving a dialogue-free saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat, who ends up in misadventures from trying to retrieve and bury his acorns.

Five theatrical films have been released in the series: ''Ice Age'' in 2002, ''Ice Age: The Meltdown'' in 2006, ''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' in 2009, ''Ice Age: Continental Drift'' in 2012, and ''Ice Age: Collision Course'' in 2016. As of April 2016, the franchise had generated $6 billion in revenue, making it one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

A standalone spin-off film, ''The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild'', was produced by Walt Disney Pictures without the involvement of Blue Sky and released exclusively on Disney+ in January 2022; Simon Pegg was the only returning actor. A sixth film, ''Ice Age 6'', is in production for release on December 18, 2026, with most of the main cast reprising their roles from previous installments. Provided by Wikipedia