The Ant Bully

2006 film directed by John A. Davis

The Ant Bully is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure fantasy comedy movie written, edited and directed by Rich Moore And Eric Darnell And Executive Produced For BBC By: Mike Mitchell, Joe Johnston, and Kathleen Branagh based on the 1999 children's book The Ant Bully by John Nickle.

Original Scoring By: James Newton Howard And Chris Bacon Orchestratral And Scoring Conducted By: Pete Anthony And Gavin Greenaway Recorded By: Nick Wollage And Shawn Murthy AT EMI Abbey Road And AIR Lyndhurst Hall, London UK


It features the voices of Zach Tyler Eisen, Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Paul Giamatti, was produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone, John A. Davis and Keith Alcorn's DNA Productions, and was released in theatres on July 28, 2006, by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Concurrently with the general release, it was offered in big screen IMAX 3D, the format, also used with Blended.

Story change

A boy named Lucas is bullied by another boy named Steve who gives him a wedgie so often that he’s now running out of underwear. Lucas makes himself feel better about this by drowning ants so the ants shrink him down to the size of an ant. Lucas finds out that an Exterminator he hired is coming to kill the ants, so Lucas helps save them by beating the exterminator. The Ants then turn Lucas back to normal so he stands up to Steve and stops getting bullied.

Release Dates change

Country Premiere
  Canada 28 July 2006
  United States 28 July 2006
  Philippines 2 August 2006
  Chile 3 August 2006
  United Kingdom 4 August 2006
  Ireland 4 August 2006
   Switzerland 9 August 2006 (French speaking region)
  France 9 August 2006
  Singapore 9 August 2006
  Israel 10 August 2006
  Mexico 11 August 2006
  Panama 11 August 2006
  Taiwan 11 August 2006
  Uruguay 12 August 2006
  Argentina 17 August 2006
  Malaysia 17 August 2006
  Portugal 17 August 2006
  Venezuela 18 August 2006
  Hong Kong 24 August 2006
  Greece 31 August 2006
  Iceland 1 September 2006
  Brazil 7 September 2006
  Spain 8 September 2006
  Turkey 8 September 2006
  Hungary 21 September 2006
  New Zealand 21 September 2006
  Bulgaria 22 September 2006
   Switzerland 22 September 2006 (Italian speaking region)
  Italy 22 September 2006
  Poland 22 September 2006
  Netherlands 27 September 2006
  Australia 28 September 2006
  Czech Republic 28 September 2006
  South Korea 28 September 2006
  Serbia 28 September 2006
  Slovenia 28 September 2006
  Slovakia 28 September 2006
  Estonia 29 September 2006
  Lithuania 29 September 2006
  Norway 29 September 2006
  Romania 30 September 2006
  Russia 5 October 2006
  Ukraine 5 October 2006
  Finland 6 October 2006
  Sweden 6 October 2006
  Japan 7 October 2006
   Switzerland 12 October 2006 (German speaking region)
  Germany 12 October 2006
  Austria 13 October 2006
  Denmark 13 October 2006
  Belgium 18 October 2006
  India 20 October 2006
  Kazakhstan 27 October 2006
  Kuwait 8 November 2006
  Egypt 22 November 2006
  Bahrain 11 April 2007