Draft:Garfield in film

Beginning in 1976, Garfield is a popular multimedia franchise originally stemming from a series of comic strips of the same name. Since then, the franchise has branched off into several other mediums, including film. This is a list of all times that the Garfield franchise has been adapted into film.

Films

Live action/animated films

Garfield: The Movie

Garfield: The Movie is a 2004 American comedy film based on Jim Davis' comic strip Garfield. Directed by Peter Hewitt and written by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, it stars Breckin Meyer as Jon Arbuckle, Jennifer Love Hewitt as Dr. Liz Wilson and features Bill Murray as the voice of Garfield, who was created with computer-generated imagery.

Produced by Davis Entertainment and 20th Century Fox, Garfield: The Movie was released in the United States on June 11, 2004 to negative reviews from critics. It was a commercial success, grossing $208 million on a $50 million budget.^[1]

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (released in some countries as Garfield 2) is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Tim Hill and written by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow. It is the sequel to the 2004 film Garfield: The Movie and a loose remake of Mark Twain's 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper. The film stars Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Bill Murray reprising their respective roles as Jon Arbuckle, Dr. Liz Wilson, and the voice of Garfield. New cast members include Billy Connolly, Ian Abercrombie, Roger Rees, Lucy Davis and Oliver Muirhead in live-action roles and Tim Curry, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans, Vinnie Jones, Joe Pasquale, Richard E. Grant, and Jane Leeves as the voices of the film's new animal characters. In the film, Garfield, Odie, Liz and Jon travel to the United Kingdom, where Prince, another cat that looks exactly like Garfield, is ruling over a castle after the death of his owner. His reign is soon jeopardized by an evil aristocrat, who plans to remodel the castle into condominiums, destroy the estate, and get rid of Prince. Produced by Davis Entertainment for 20th Century Fox, it was released in the United States on June 16, 2006. Like its predecessor, the film received generally negative reviews from critics. A video game of the same name was developed by The Game Factory.

Mark A.Z. Dippé trilogy

Garfield Gets Real

Garfield Gets Real (also known as Garfield 3D in some regions) is a 2007 American direct-to-video animated comedy film based on the comic strip Garfield. It was produced by Paws, Inc. in cooperation with Davis Entertainment, and The Animation Picture Company and distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. It was written by Garfield's creator Jim Davis, who started working on the script in the autumn of 1996. This was the first fully animated Garfield production since the 1991 television special Garfield Gets a Life, and the season finale of Garfield and Friends. The DVD was shipped to stores on August 9, 2007. Gregg Berger, an actor from the original series, reprises his role of Odie, but Garfield was voiced by veteran voice actor Frank Welker, since the original actor Lorenzo Music died six years earlier in 2001 and Jon is voiced by Wally Wingert, as Thom Huge retired that same year. The film received unfavorable reviews.

Garfield's Fun Fest

Garfield's Fun Fest is a 2008 animated comedy film based on the comic strip Garfield. It was produced by Paws, Inc., in cooperation with The Animation Picture Company. It was written by Garfield's creator Jim Davis as a sequel to Garfield Gets Real. The film was released on DVD in the United States on August 5, 2008, by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, and was pre-sold internationally by sales representative Velvet Octopus.

Garfield's Pet Force

Garfield's Pet Force is a 2009 animated superhero comedy film based on characters from the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield and loosely based on the Pet Force novel series. It is the third and final installment of the trilogy, following Garfield Gets Real and Garfield's Fun Fest. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in the United States on June 16, 2009, by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, while it was pre-sold overseas by sales representative Velvet Octopus. It was written by Garfield creator Jim Davis. It was released theatrically in 3-D in select countries such as Poland, Italy and Spain, and became the most profitable film in the trilogy.

The Garfield Movie

The Garfield Movie is a 2024 American animated adventurecomedy film based on the comic strip Garfield created by Jim Davis. Directed by Mark Dindal from a screenplay by Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove, and David Reynolds, the film stars Chris Pratt as the voice of the titular character, alongside the voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang, and Snoop Dogg. In the film, Garfield is reunited with his long-lost father, a street cat named Vic, being forced into joining him on a high-stakes adventure. Development on the first animated Garfield film for theatrical release started at Alcon Entertainment in May 2016. Dindal was announced as the film's director in November 2018, and pre-production began the following month. By 2021, Sony Pictures had already purchased the film rights for global distribution and Pratt was cast as Garfield, with the rest of the cast joining the following year. The film was animated by DNEG Animation, while John Debney, a frequent collaborator of Dindal, composed the score. The Garfield Movie was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures through Sony Pictures Releasing on May 24, 2024. The film received negative reviews, but became a box-office success, grossing over $217 million worldwide against a budget of $60 million, making it the tenth highest-grossing film of 2024.

Cast

Characters^[a]	Direct-to-DVD films			Theatrical films
	Garfield Gets Real	Garfield's Fun Fest	Garfield's Pet Force	Garfield: The Movie	Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties	The Garfield Movie
	2007	2008	2009	2004	2006	2024
Garfield	Frank Welker			Bill Murray		Chris Pratt
Jon Arbuckle	Wally Wingert			Breckin Meyer
Jon Arbuckle	Wally Wingert			Breckin Meyer		Nicholas Hoult^[2]
Odie	Gregg Berger			Uncredited dog		Harvey Guillén
Dr. Liz Wilson	Julie K. Payne			Jennifer Love Hewitt		Dev Joshi
Nermal	Jason Marsden			David Eigenberg		Silent cameo
Arlene	Audrey Wasilewski			Debra Messing
Prop boy	Frank Welker

Crew

Film	Director(s)	Producer(s)	Composer	Editor(s)
Garfield: The Movie	Peter Hewitt	John Davis	Christophe Beck	Michael A. Stevenson and Peter E. Berger
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties	Tim Hill	John Davis	Christophe Beck
Garfield Gets Real	Mark A.Z. Dippé	Jim Davis and John Davis
Garfield’s Fun Fest		Jim Davis and John Davis
Garfield’s Pet Force		Daniel Chuba, John Davis and Ash R. Shah

Reception

Box office performance

Critical and public response

Notes

^ Characters whom have appeared in at least two films are listed.

reference

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^ Grobar, Matt (2022-08-17). "'Garfield': Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Hannah Waddingham & Cecily Strong Board Animated Feature From Alcon Entertainment". Deadline. Retrieved 2024-02-26.

[2] Characters whom have appeared in at least two films are listed.

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[3] Grobar, Matt (2022-08-17). "'Garfield': Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Hannah Waddingham & Cecily Strong Board Animated Feature From Alcon Entertainment". Deadline. Retrieved 2024-02-26.

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