Ico (film)/Trivia

Trivia

 * Due to the source material's darker, serious and dramatic tone (which earned it a T for Teen rating by the ESRB), the film received a PG-13 rating (in the vein of the 2009 Tim Burton-produced animated film 9).
 * This is the second Sony Pictures Animation film to be based on a video game following The Angry Birds Movie 2.
 * The first non-Marvel Hollywood film to be filmed completely in IMAX.
 * Because of this, along with the extensive use of motion-capture, it ballooned the budget up to $300 million
 * Originally before the film's Chinese and worldwide release, most box office reporters were speculating that the film would bomb at box office due to the idea as well as the budget.
 * Nonetheless, it was proven wrong $1.2 billion later.
 * This is the darkest film by Sony Pictures Animation and barely has any humor in it.
 * The first Sony Pictures Animation film to be released on Wednesday.
 * Finn Wolfhard and Millie Bobby Brown both previously starred together in the Netflix series Stranger Things.
 * This is the first Sony Pictures Animation film to be rated PG-13.
 * The longest Sony Pictures Animation film, clocking in at two hours and forty-two minutes.
 * The film uses the words damn, bastard, b*tch, hell, dumbass and ass.
 * The film was originally supposed to receive an R rating due to the graphic nature of the film's violence until a scene was cut in order to gain the rating of PG-13.