Ice Age (franchise)

*Ice Age*
Ice Age
Created by	Michael J. Wilson; Lori Forte
Developed by	Peter Ackerman; Michael J. Wilson; Michael Berg;
Original work	Ice Age (2002)
Owner	20th Century Studios
Years	2002–present
Films and television
Film(s)	Main series; Ice Age (2002); The Meltdown (2006); Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009); Continental Drift (2012); Collision Course (2016); Boiling Point (2027); Spin-off; Adventures of Buck Wild (2022);
Short film(s)	Gone Nutty (2002); No Time for Nuts (2006); Surviving Sid (2008); Scrat's Continental Crack-Up (2010); Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 (2011); Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe (2015); Scrat: Spaced Out (2016);
Animated series	Scrat Tales (2022)
Television special(s)	A Mammoth Christmas (2011); The Great Egg-Scapade (2016);
Theatrical presentations
Play(s)	Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure
Games
Video game(s)	Ice Age (2002); The Meltdown (2006); Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009); Continental Drift – Arctic Games (2012);
Audio
Soundtrack(s)	Ice Age; The Meltdown; Dawn of the Dinosaurs; Continental Drift; Collision Course; The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild; Scrat Tales;

Ice Age is an American media franchise created by Michael J. Wilson, based on an idea by Lori Forte. The franchise, centering on a group of mammals surviving the Pleistocene ice age, 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 20th Century Fox Animation (now 20th Century Animation), and distributed by its then-parent company 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios). The series features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Chris Wedge across all films, with Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Simon Pegg, Wanda Sykes, Keke Palmer, and Jennifer Lopez joining the main cast in subsequent films. The films center mainly on the adventures of "the Herd," which since the first film consists of at least woolly mammoth Manny (Romano), ground sloth Sid (Leguizamo), and Smilodon Diego (Leary). The franchise also features mostly independent plotlines involving a dialogue-free saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat (Wedge), who ends up in misadventures from trying to retrieve and bury his acorns, the latter act creates a chain of events that sets up the various adventures of the protagonists.

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 and 20th Century Animation without the involvement of Blue Sky and released exclusively on Disney+ in January 2022, with Simon Pegg being the only returning cast member. A sixth film, Ice Age: Boiling Point, is in production under 20th Century Animation without Blue Sky's involvement for release on February 5, 2027, with most of the main cast reprising their roles from previous installments.