Secretly unsatisfied, Mandible congratulates him and introduces him to the Queen. Z returns home, and is mistakenly hailed as a war hero. Meanwhile, Weaver joins the digging crew and falls in love with Z's co-worker Azteca. Before dying, Barbatus tells Z to think for himself instead of blindly following orders. In the battle, everyone except Z is killed by much-larger acid-shooting termite defenders. The ants are unaware that General Mandible, the army's leader and Bala's fiancee, is secretly sending the soldiers loyal to the Queen to die, so he can stage a coup d'état.
To see Bala again, Z exchanges places with his soldier friend Weaver and joins the army, where he befriends staff sergeant Barbatus. The ant colony declares war on an encroaching termite colony, and soldiers are sent to engage the invaders. While at the colony's bar one night, Z falls in love with Princess Bala, when she visits the bar to escape her suffocating royal life. Z is an anxious worker ant who chafes at conformity, and the fact that everyone, even his psychiatrist, reminds him he is insignificant. The film received positive reviews, with critics praising the voice cast, animation, humor, and its appeal towards adults. It grossed $171.8 million worldwide on a budget of $42–105 million. This only worsened when Disney refused to avoid competition with DreamWorks' intended first animated release, The Prince of Egypt (1998).Īntz premiered on September 19, 1998, at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States on October 2, 1998, by DreamWorks Pictures. Antz was the first film from DreamWorks Animation, and the third feature-length computer-animated film after Disney and Pixar's Toy Story (1995) and NDR Filmes's Cassiopeia (1996).ĭuring its production, a public feud erupted between DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steve Jobs and John Lasseter of Pixar, due to the production of their similar film A Bug's Life, which was released a month later. Some of the main characters share facial similarities with the actors who voice them. The film features the voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover and Gene Hackman. Constitution, which was adopted by America's founding fathers in Philadelphia in 1787.It last sold for $165,000 in 1988.Antz is a 1998 American computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson (in their feature directorial debuts) from a screenplay by Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz, and Paul Weitz. Constitution.The extremely rare document sold for $43.2 million dollars at a Sotheby's auction on Thursday.The identity of the winning bidder was not immediately clear, nor was it clear why the cryptocurrency group, called "ConstitutionDAO" was outbid at that price.Their crowdfunding page had quickly amassed more than $47 million, or 11,600 of the cryptocurrency Ether.ConstitutionDAO took to Twitter to concede defeat:"Community: We did not win the bid," it said, promising to refund more than 17,000 contributors to the fund.If they had succeeded, contributors would not have had any stake in the valuable document but, instead, would have been given so-called 'governance tokens' to advise on what happened to it.The document they missed out on is one of 11 known existing copies from the official first printing of the U.S. A group of cryptocurrency enthusiasts have failed in their bid to buy a first edition copy of the U.S.