Erica Rivinoja
Erica Rivinoja is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated writer, as well as a director and producer, who debuted on the big screen as a co-writer of the anthology sex comedy, Extreme Movie (2008), with co-writers Will Forte, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and featured (among others) Kevin Hart, Jamie Kennedy, Frankie Muniz, Matthew Lillard, Michael Cera and Chris Cooper, and which was released by Dimension Films. Rivinoja reunited with Lord and Miller as co-story writer as well as co-screenwriter (with credited co-screenwriters john Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein) of Sony Pictures Animation’s sequel, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013), with the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Forte, Samberg, Benjamin Bratt, Neil Patrick Harris and Terry Crews under Cody Cameron’s and Kris Pearn’s co-direction, produced (in part) by Columbia Pictures and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing for a terrific $274.3 million return (based on estimated costs).
Rivinoja was story writer of DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls (2016), based on the Good Luck Trolls doll like, with the voices of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Christine Baranski, Russell Brand, James Corden, Jeffrey Tambor, Quvenzhane Wallis, John Cleese and Gwen Stefani under Mike Mitchell’s direction, and which grossed $347 million for 20th Century Fox after premiering at the London Film Festival. Rivinoja joined co-screenwriters Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver as a co-story writer of director/producer Malcolm D. Lee’s hit comedy, Girls Trip (2017), co-starring Regina Hall, Tiffany Haddish, Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah and Larenz Tate, produced (in part) by Will Packer Productions and earning over seven times estimated costs (or $141 million) for Universal Pictures.
Erica Rivinoja was co-story writer on another comedy (with co-story writers Conrad Vernon and screenwriter Matt Lieberman), the successful animated version of Charles Addams’s The Addams Family (2019), starring the voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Snoop Dogg, Bette Midler and Allison Janney under Greg Tiernan’s and Conrad Vernon’s co-direction, produced (in part) by MGM and Bron Creative and grossing nine times ($204 million globally) estimated costs for United Artists Releasing (U.S.)/Universal Pictures (Canada). Rivinoja won her first Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay as a co-writer (with eight other credited writers) of creator/star/writer/producer Sacha Baron Cohen’s mockumentary sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020), produced by Four by Two Films and released by Amazon Studios.
Rivinoja was co-director/writer (with co-director/writer Alessandro Carloni) of the animated feature loosely based on Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat (2026), starring the voices of Bill Hader, Giancarlo Esposito, America Ferrera, Matt Berry, Quinta Brunson and Xochitl Gomez, produced (in part) by Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and released wide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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The Cat in the Hat
Meet the Cat in the Hat you don't know in an all-new, epic adventure where mischief, magic and mayhem reign supreme.
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