It grossed $140 million worldwide, becoming the sixth highest-grossing animated film of 2004. The film had its yellow-carpet premiere at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles on November 14, 2004, and it was released in the United States on November 19.
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The film was originally intended to serve as the series finale, but Nickelodeon ordered more episodes of the series as it had become increasingly profitable, so Hillenburg resigned as showrunner, with Tibbitt taking his place. He assembled a team from the show's writing staff, including Paul Tibbitt, Derek Drymon, Aaron Springer, Kent Osborne, and Tim Hill, and they structured the film as a mythical hero's journey that would bring SpongeBob and Patrick to the surface. Hillenburg accepted an offer for a film adaptation of SpongeBob SquarePants from Paramount Pictures in 2002, after having turned it down multiple times the previous year. Krabs from Neptune's wrath and the oceanic world from Plankton's rule. SpongeBob and Patrick team up to retrieve the crown from Shell City to save Mr. Krabs, steal the Krabby Patty secret formula and take over the world by stealing King Neptune's crown and framing Mr. In this film, Plankton enacts a plan to discredit his business nemesis Mr. It is the first film in the SpongeBob SquarePants film series. It features the series' regular voice cast with Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson, and Jeffrey Tambor voicing new characters and David Hasselhoff appearing as himself. The film was directed, co-written, and produced by series creator Stephen Hillenburg, with live-action sequences directed by Mark Osborne.
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Winnie the Pooh was released in theaters in 2011, the same year Ghostbusters was re-released in selected theaters in time for Halloween, The Nightmare Before Christmas was first released on Blu-ray 3D, and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was first released on Blu-ray.Pooh's Heffalump Movie was released in theaters in 2005, the same year Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie was released directly to VHS and DVD and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was first released on VHS and DVD.Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo was first released directly to VHS and DVD in 2004, the same year the original Star Wars trilogy was first released on DVD and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was released in theaters.The main reason why Ariel, Flounder, Sebastian, and Melody are guest starring in this film is because both The Little Mermaid and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie involve sea creatures.Jonathan Oosterhof (aka LionKingRulezAgain1) originally planned to make a Lion King crossover with The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie with Sebastian joining the Jungle Adventure Crew, but he retired from making anymore crossovers, so Sebastian ended up guest starring in this film instead.Winnie the Pooh and his friends faced Plankton before in Pooh's Adventures of SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton! and both versions of Winnie The Pooh In Fantasmic! and they faced him again in the Winnie the Pooh/SpongeBob SquarePants short films.Ash Ketchum, Pikachu, Misty, Togepi, Brock, Ariel, Prince Eric, Melody, Flounder, Sebastian, Scuttle, Tip, Dash and The New United Alliance of Evil guest star in this film.
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Winnie the Pooh and his friends (along with Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Togepi, Brock, Ariel, Flounder, Sebastian, and Melody) have traveled back to Bikini Bottom and they join SpongeBob and Patrick on a quest to find King Neptune's crown.