This is the second film that Denis Leary and Kevin Spacey worked on. Their first film was Touchstone's 1994 Christmas comedy The Ref. Leary played the main antagonist Gus and Spacey played Lloyd who was taken hostage by Gus. John Lassetter repeatedly attempted to get Robert De Niro to voice Hopper, the grasshopper, but De Niro repeatedly declined. DeNiro didn't do animated voice work at the time. a b Maslin, Janet (2016). "A Bug's Life (1998)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 2, 2016 . Retrieved June 16, 2016. A colony of ants, led by the elderly Queen and her daughter Princess Atta, live in the middle of a seasonally dry creekbed on a small hill known as "Ant Island". Every summer, they are forced to give food to a gang of grasshoppers, led by Hopper.

Newly Released Files Show Steve Jobs Gave President Clinton Unsolicited Cabinet Recommendations". Gizmodo. October 23, 2017. Archived from the original on June 11, 2022 . Retrieved June 11, 2022. The photos, dated November 9, 1998, were taken in the Oval Office. Gypsy resembles a regular moth. But in real life, only male gypsy moths have fully functional wings while females have vestigial wings and can't fly unlike all the other moth species (a similar trait goes to bagworm moths, where only males have wings and females have no wings at all). A Bug's Life was the first home video release to be entirely created using a digital transfer. Every frame of animation was converted from the film's computer data, as opposed to the standard analog film-to-videotape transfer process. This allowed for the film's DVD release to retain its original 2.35:1 widescreen format. [38] [39] The DVD was released on April 20, 1999, alongside a VHS release which was presented in a standard 1.33:1 " fullscreen" format. The film's fullscreen transfer was performed by entirely "reframing" the film shot by shot; more than half of the film's footage was modified by Pixar animators to fit within the film's aspect ratio. Several characters and objects were moved closer together to avoid being cut out of frame. [38] The film's VHS release was the best-selling VHS in the United Kingdom, with 1.76 million units sold by the end of the year. [40] On August 1, 2000, these editions were re-released on VHS and DVD under the Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection banner. [41] It's Tough to be a Bug! | Walt Disney World Resort". Disney. Archived from the original on January 14, 2014 . Retrieved January 13, 2014.A Bug's Life". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020 . Retrieved October 5, 2021. a b c d e Grebey, James (November 24, 2018). "Why A Bug's Life is an underrated Pixar classic". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on April 1, 2019 . Retrieved July 2, 2021.

Disney/Pixar A Bug's Life Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on March 10, 2014 . Retrieved November 29, 2013. Corliss, Richard (November 30, 1998). "Cinema: Bugs Funny". Time. Archived from the original on July 20, 2014 . Retrieved October 21, 2013. The ant colony is made up of both male and female worker ants. In reality, all worker ants are female, but can't reproduce. And males, also known as drones, only serve to mate with the queen and die afterwards. The same is true with bees and wasps.

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Psycho' can't slash 'Bug's Life' ". St. Cloud Times. December 7, 1998. p.10. Archived from the original on September 14, 2023 . Retrieved September 14, 2023– via Newspapers.com. a b c Brew, Simon (December 5, 2010). "Celebrating the Pixar end-credits bloopers". Den of Geek. Archived from the original on July 12, 2021 . Retrieved July 2, 2021. The animators also employed subsurface scattering—developed by Pixar co-founder Edwin Catmull during his graduate student days at the University of Utah in the 1970s—to render surfaces in a more lifelike way. This would be the first time that subsurface scattering would be used in a Pixar film, and a small team at Pixar worked out the practical problems that kept it from working in animation. Catmull asked for a short film to test and showcase subsurface scattering and the result, Geri's Game (1997), was attached alongside A Bug's Life in its theatrical release. [21] Feud between Pixar and DreamWorks [ edit ]

A-Bug-s-Life – Cast, Crew, Director and Awards". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on January 24, 2014 . Retrieved January 13, 2014. From 2002 to 2018, A Bug's Land was a section of Disney California Adventure that was inspired by the film. The film is inspired by Aesop's fable, The Ant and The Grasshopper and is highly reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and all of its successors, including The Magnificent Seven (which gave the villain a more prominent role than in Seven Samurai and had a similar scene in which the heroes are driven away from the people they were protecting) and Three Amigos! which was a comedic take on the story.Disney's Animal Kingdom includes the 3D show It's Tough to Be a Bug!, which also existed at Disney California Adventure from 2001 to 2018.

Guerrasio, Jason (June 18, 2021). "RANKED: Every Pixar movie from worst to best—including 'Luca' ". Business Insider. Archived from the original on March 11, 2022 . Retrieved July 2, 2021. This is the first and only Pixar film to be co-directed by Andrew Stanton, before he became a solo director for Finding Nemo, WALL·E and Finding Dory. A teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace was attached to the screenings of A Bug's Life. [36] Within a few weeks into the film's theatrical release, new outtakes were added to the theatrical prints. [37] Because the film is animated, no actual outtakes exist; they are animated specifically for the outtakes sequence.

a b "Premiere of "A Bugs Life" ". Getty Images. El Capitan Theatre. November 14, 1998 . Retrieved August 26, 2023. When the ants decide whether on not let Flik go to Ant City, Atta says, "He can't mess anything up.". However, her lip movement reads "screw" when she says "mess". a b c d Isaacson, Walter (2011). Steve Jobs. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 307. ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9. Features the second part of the long preview for Tarzan (its first part was on the 1999 VHS of Mulan). This practice was similar to the 1992 VHS releases of One Hundred and One Dalmatians and Beauty and the Beast that featured different trailers for Aladdin at different stages in development. classics' on DVD; 'Bug's Life' is reissued". DeseretNews.com. Archived from the original on January 8, 2018 . Retrieved January 7, 2018.